Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] ?s {Airport Ready? Senao Cards? Driver?}

[Amanda W. <am...@al...>]

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 02:26  PM, er...@ra... wrote:
> 1) What chipset is the airport client card?

Lucent HERMES.

> 1a) Does anyone know if the airport driver will run the Senao card?

No.  The airport driver will only recognize a card that identifies 
itself as a Lucent "WaveLAN/IEEE" card (that is, an orinoco silver or 
gold card).

> 2) Will the wireless driver work with cards in the airport slot on G4
> airport ready machines?

Rob can answer for his new driver, but the current one will not, last I 
checked.  The airport slot in desktop and laptop Macs is not a real 
PCMCIA slot.  It's a piece of the IDE bus hooked up to a PCMCIA 
connector.  It is possible for third parties to support it (for 
example, the final Orinoco driver for MacOS 9 did, as did a driver for 
LinuxPPC), but it's a little trickier than supporting a slot in a real 
PCMCIA controller, or even a fake one like those provided by PLX9052 
based PCI wireless card adapters.

> 3) A previous post mentioned that I might be able to get my
> PCI->PCMCIA bridge 'working' in some fashion if I enabled 'dubbing' in
> the driver when recompling.  I didn't find the word 'dub' in any
> project or framework file, so if someone could elaborate that would be
> great.

MacOS X's PCMCIA support *almost* supports a bunch of CardBus 
controllers.  The UNIX level recognizes them, but the IOKit layer does 
not, so there would be at least a little kernel recompiling necessary 
to support them.

> 4) If you have any suggestions for gettin a Senao Ext2 working in a
> gigabit g4 'airport ready' machine, I would love to hear them.  I
> would like to get all this working over the weekend.  Thanks.

I know of at least two companies working on support for PLX9052-based 
adapters, which would let you put your card into a PCI slot.  I don't 
know if either one will be shipping by this weekend, though.


Amanda Walker
am...@al...

(disclaimer: I work on commercial wireless drivers for IOXperts)