From: Joe <mal...@to...> - 2005-03-23 20:41:04
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The card is, I believe, based on the prism chip. When I download the drivers from the site(macwireless.com), it uses a package named 'linux-wlan-ng' or somesuch, so I downloaded that in source form and compiled it. I loaded the module, and the card isnt recognized by iwconfig or anything. 'cardctl status' detects the card as inserted however. |
From: Florian B. <eup...@ar...> - 2005-03-23 21:12:49
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Hi, Joe wrote: > The card is, I believe, based on the prism chip. When I download the > drivers from the site(macwireless.com), it uses a package named > 'linux-wlan-ng' or somesuch, so I downloaded that in source form and > compiled it. I loaded the module, and the card isnt recognized by > iwconfig or anything. 'cardctl status' detects the card as inserted > however. In general Prism-based cards are a good choice. However there are some (IMHO PrismGT) that aren't supported by Linux(-drivers). The linux-wlan-ng package is for 802.11b (i.e. 11Mbit/s) cards. You may also want to check Prism54.org for 802.11g-based cards. Florian |
From: Raylynn K. <aud...@sp...> - 2005-03-24 05:10:34
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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:13 +0100, Florian Boelstler wrote: > Hi, > > Joe wrote: > > The card is, I believe, based on the prism chip. When I download the > > drivers from the site(macwireless.com), it uses a package named > > 'linux-wlan-ng' or somesuch, so I downloaded that in source form and > > compiled it. I loaded the module, and the card isnt recognized by > > iwconfig or anything. 'cardctl status' detects the card as inserted > > however. > > In general Prism-based cards are a good choice. However there are some > (IMHO PrismGT) that aren't supported by Linux(-drivers). > The linux-wlan-ng package is for 802.11b (i.e. 11Mbit/s) cards. You may > also want to check Prism54.org for 802.11g-based cards. Except that its not very likely he has a 802.11g card in a NuBus based PowerBook. I've never seen or heard of a 16bit 802.11g card, they all seem to be CardBus. The NuBus PowerBooks only support 16bit cards. In fact a CardBus card cannot be inserted in the slots. Ray |
From: Florian B. <eup...@ar...> - 2005-03-24 15:39:53
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Raylynn Knight wrote: > Except that its not very likely he has a 802.11g card in a NuBus based > PowerBook. I've never seen or heard of a 16bit 802.11g card, they all > seem to be CardBus. The NuBus PowerBooks only support 16bit cards. In > fact a CardBus card cannot be inserted in the slots. Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware of the fact that differenct card types are available. (My first laptop is PB1400 that I got several month ago:) Florian BTW, Ray I came across the debian-boot mailing list yesterday and read an archived discussion about Debian-Nubus-integration by you and some DD. Do you know about the status? Is there a chance to help, etc.? |
From: Florian B. <eup...@ar...> - 2005-05-28 10:28:11
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Raylynn Knight wrote: > Except that its not very likely he has a 802.11g card in a NuBus based > PowerBook. I've never seen or heard of a 16bit 802.11g card, they all > seem to be CardBus. The NuBus PowerBooks only support 16bit cards. In > fact a CardBus card cannot be inserted in the slots. I got a Prism-based 16bit-PCMCIA card from eBay these days. Netgear MA401. It is properly detected using a kernel built from CVS. However the latest Prism-driver-module fails to initialize the card. I will check the linux-wlan-ng ML for further hints. Could you please post your kernel configuration that you were using for the PB1400. BTW, what is the state of the current CVS? I see your kernels are based on 2.4.27. Whereas the current CVS reflects 2.4.28. Is there certain nubus-patchset that could be used against vanilla kernels? Thanks in advance, Florian -- ... Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on Computer Science was the greatest. Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!" Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!" Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that." |