On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:08:41PM +1000, Anthony Wesley wrote:
> I am trying to get a D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA card to run in a desktop Linux system (kernel 2.4.5 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.26 + PCI
> adapter).

The problem is probably the PCI bridge and not the wireless card
itself. The troubles seem to be in the new PCMCIA subsystem - it
doesn't deal well with many PCI <-> PCMCIA bridges.

> I have seen some posts regarding this stuff go past here, but (of course) I deleted them since they were not relevant at the
> time :-)
>
> Can someone point me at David Gibsons web page if it exists so I can get some info on how to make this card work? Like
> others i see posting here, I have it _almost_ working, but not quite.

My page is at http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd, but you
won't find anything except the driver C files themselves (and not even
the most current ones). Sorry :-(

You'll find Jean Tourrilhes page on the Orinoco driver much more
useful:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html

> The module loads, but then logs this message:
>
> "cardmgr: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource Temporarily Unavailable"

This is from the PCMCIA subsystem before we even reach the driver (the
module is loaded but has not yet been attached to the PCMCIA socket by
the PCMCIA subsystem).

> and I can't find any docs to help me get past this point. Also, the parameters in config.opts fr wvlan_cs don't seem to be
> understood
> by the orinoco module - i.e. port_type=X etc. I get errors if I try to pass these params in, but I can't find out what the
> correct
> syntax ought to be :-)

The orinoco driver doesn't use module options for configuration, it
uses iwconfig instead - the PCMCIA scripts should do this for you with
the right options in wireless.opts.

-- 
David Gibson			| Microsoft: Making the easy things hard
davidgibson.dropbear.id.au	| and the hard things buggy
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