Re: [Wirelessdriver-devel] I might add PRISM 2.5 support - a few questions

[Java N. <jav...@ho...>]

Hi Rob,

Regarding the fact I did not see the system warning when I first inserted my 
PRISM 2.5 card, but did see it when I (second) inserted my Orinoco card 
makes me think the driver was not invoked at all for the PRISM 2.5 card. (I 
just clicked for the system to fix and use when I did get the message and 
the Orinoco card came up fine in the driver (checked with ifconfig).) Can 
you advise, if the following is how I should be setting up my XML in the 
Info.plist, and if there is something else I should be doing?

The info I obtained from my card is:

/usr/sbin/ioreg -l | grep VersionOneInfo
    | |             "VersionOneInfo" = ("SMC","SMC2532W-B EliteConnect 
Wireless Adapter","","")

/usr/sbin/ioreg -l | grep pccard
    | |       +-o pccardd601,5@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
    | |             "IOName" = "pccardd601,5"

I tried adding this to the configuration file like this and it did not help:

                <key>everything else</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
                        <string>org.noncontiguous.WirelessDriver</string>
                        <key>IOClass</key>
                        <string>org_noncontiguous_WirelessDriver</string>
                        <key>IONameMatch</key>
                        <array>
                                <string>pccard156,2</string>
                                <string>pccard1eb,807</string>
                                <string>pccard274,1613</string>
                                <string>pccard274,1612</string>
                                <string>pccard138,2</string>
                                <string>pccardd601,5</string>       <------ 
added line
                        </array>

I am wondering, if you know a way I can verify that the card I purchased is 
really PRISM 2.5 and that the manufacturer didn't misspeak?

>Due to demand, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and post >for core of 
>my new code later today even if I don't manage >to sort out the bug I'm 
>working on.  Depending on how my day >goes, I likely won't have the chance 
>to post the PCCard >interface code for this driver right away.

I look forward to downloading and trying the new version.

May I ask a couple more questions about how the code works.

>>3) I am curious, where in the code is the xml file read and >>the card  
>>type checked? And how does the program >>distinguish what PRISM level a  
>>card has?

>That is done by IOKit automatically. For information on how this works, see 
> ><http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/ 
>IOKitFundamentals/index.html>

So, then, where is the entry point of the driver, and how is the driver told 
which card was inserted?

>>I noticed that some messages were written to /var/log/system.log when I 
>>inserted my >>Orinoco (but not for the PRISM 2.5 card):

How are messages written to /var/log/system.log?

Thanks for all your help.

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