[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: High power (200mW) cards work with OS X.

[Max W. <Dav...@ma...>]

Jim Thompson <jim@ne...> in thread "High power (200mW) cards work with 
OS X." on
2002-10-11 22:15 wrote :

Hello Mr Thompson,

 >
 >  I haven't seen anything in the 'supported' list on the Senao/EnGenius
 >  cards, but they work with
 >  the 'WirelessDriver' on my TiBook (and boy howdy, do they improve
 >  range.  :-)
 >
 >  Both the 2511CD PLUS (Internal antenna) and 2511CD PLUS EXT2 (dual 
MMCX
 >  connectors for an
 >  external card) work.  (As they should, since its the same card
 >  internally.)

I have the former card, the 2522CD PLUS, recently purchased from 
yourselves (I also have the latter card, but haven't tried it yet), but 
am having trouble getting it working.

 >
 >  No plist tweaking required, but I did have to remove
 >  /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache (and reboot)
 >  and ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist (and restart 
System
 >  Preferences) in order to get the  driver and Preference pane up.

OK, I haven't tried deleting these files yet, since I am concerned 
about side effects; and I'm not sure it's necessary in my case. Please 
advise me if you think this is necessary based on the following 
information.

 >
 >  Here's the requisite info asked for in the FAQ:
 >
 >  [Jims-Powerbook:~] jim% ioreg -l | grep VersionOneInfo
 >       | |         |   "VersionOneInfo" =
 >  ("INTERSIL","HFA384x/IEEE","Version 01.02",""$

I get the same output :

% ioreg -l | grep VersionOneInfo
     | |             "VersionOneInfo" = 
("INTERSIL","HFA384x/IEEE","Version 01.02",""$

but...

 >  [Jims-Powerbook:~] jim% ioreg -l | grep pccard
 >       | |       +-o pccard156,2@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
 >       | |         |   "IOName" = "pccard156,2"
 >       | |           |   "IONameMatch" =
 >  ("pccard156,2","pccard1eb,807","pccard274,1613","pccard274,16$
 >       | |           |   "IONameMatched" = "pccard156,2"

I don't get the same here; I only get the first two lines :

% ioreg -l | grep pccard
     | |       +-o pccard156,2@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
     | |             "IOName" = "pccard156,2"


A difference between my config and yours is that my powerbook has 
Apples AirPort card installed which shows up as en0, and continues to 
work (poorly) after installing the new drivers.

Other relevant info :

1) the WirelessConfig utility shows up in the System Preferences, but 
there is no extra interface shown on the Network panel.
2) the console shows the following message numerous times :

2002-10-20 06:02:16.659 System Preferences[403] Iterations: 0
WirelessDriver: Couldn't find a WirelessDriver service in registry - is 
the card loaded?

3) the card is plugged in and has the little triangular led lit

4) the output from the troubleshooting script is :

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.2.1
BuildVersion:   6D52
Darwin dhekelia.local. 6.1 Darwin Kernel Version 6.1: Fri Sep  6 
23:24:34 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.2.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
ppc7450

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Jul 27 13:22 IOPCCardFamily.kext

### wirelesscard info

     | |             "VersionOneInfo" = 
("INTERSIL","HFA384x/IEEE","Version 01.02",""$
     | |       +-o pccard156,2@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
     | |             "IOName" = "pccard156,2"

### network info

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::203:93ff:fe98:b4fa%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
         ether 00:03:93:98:b4:fa
         media: autoselect (100baseTX <half-duplex>) status: active
         supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 
10baseT/UTP <half-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX 
<half-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 
<full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseTX <full-duplex> 1000baseTX 
<full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 
1000baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control,hw-loopback>
en1: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         tunnel inet  -->
         ether 00:30:65:04:38:96
         media: autoselect (<unknown type>) status: inactive
         supported media: autoselect

### wd command line tool status

2002-10-20 06:57:20.745 WirelessConfig[814] Iterations: 0
WirelessDriver: Couldn't find a WirelessDriver service in registry - is 
the card loaded?
Usage - WirelessConfig [-showstatus] or WirelessConfig [-showstatus] 
<-netname <network>> [-wepkey <key>] [-keyslot <slot>]
  -netname <name>     Sets the network name - enclose in double quotes
                       if your network contains a space.

  -wepkey <hex key>   Sets your network key, if ommited the network is
                       assumed to not have wep.

  -keyslot <[1-4]>    Sets which keyslot to have your key in. If
                       ommited keyslot 1 is assumed.

  -status             Prints out the network information, includes
                       signal strength.

  -writeprefs         Writes out the options to the preference file in   
                    
~/Library/Preferences/org.noncontinuous.wirelessdriver

With no options set or just the status, WirelessConfig will look for 
the preferences made by the preference pane in 
~/Library/Preferences/org.noncontinuous.WirelessDriver.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Max Waterman.