Re: [Wirelessdriver-devel] Trying to get SkyLine with PCI adapter to work

[Otto M. <ot...@dr...>]

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OK,

I'll try to run the developer version of the IOPCCardFamily when I find 
some time,

Thanks,

Otto

On donderdag, mei 9, 2002, at 08:01 , Rob McKeever wrote:

> pretty much accurate.
>
> There's 4 basic interfaces for the PRism chipset to be connected with:
> 	USB
> 	PC Card
> 	PCI
> 	"Airport", which is actually a variant of the ATA bus used for the 
> CD-ROM drive
>
> Each one uses a different method to handle I/O, with USB and Airport 
> being the most different.  The PC Card and PCI versions are almost the 
> same, but need to be handled differently because of the different bus 
> interface mechanisms.  Right now, the driver isn't checking to verify 
> that it's really a PCCard interface, but will fail to map the memory if 
> you hack it and it's really seeing something else.
>
>
> ...but...
>
> The PCI adapter you mention is a PCI to PCCard bridge card that uses an 
> off-the-shelf PCCard to do the work.  This should work, but it sounds 
> like there's something wrong with the support in IOPCCardFamily that's 
> preventing it from mapping the memory through to the end driver.  I'd 
> recommend getting the latest version of IOPCCardFamily from the Darwin 
> CVS archive and compiling it in development mode and then sending a 
> list of the output to me.  I can look it over and file a bug report 
> with Apple if it's needed.
>


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