> I have a Compaq WL200, and I've been trying to get it to work in a
> Linux box. After about a week of trying, I'm pretty much ready to throw
> in the towel and try another card. As far as I can tell, the Cirrus
> 6729 PCI-PCMCIA bridge will not work with the PCI bus in the computer
> (an IBM PC Server 325). I've exchange emails with the author of the
> PCMCIA linux card services, and he thinks it's probably a timing problem,
> but no combination of timing parameters has helped yet.

the wl200 has such a bridge ?

i got another pci-pcmcia-brige and had problems with it.
do the irq's work correctly ?
perhaps your card shares its irq for cardservices and the build-in wl100 ?

if yes, try to set irq_mode=0 for the i82365.o-module

> The problem is that it look like all PCI cards are basically PCMCIA
> cards with a PCI- or ISA-PCMCIA bridge, and if the Compaq doesn't work,
> I have no reason to think that any others will work.

> Are there any *true* PCI wireless LAN cards supported, and would it
> be reasonable to expect them (if they exist) to inter-operate with the
> Compaq Wl100's I have in Ad Hoc mode?

i got a few wl100 and an elsa airlancer mc-11 (with a ti14xx-pci-pcmcia)
and they play together in ad-hoc mode very well (the new Ad-Hoc mode)

there exists a pci-airlancer but i dont know wheter its a real pci-card

has your server also isa-bus ?
perhaps buying a isa-pcmcia-bridge would help ?

> Thanks for the input. I'm at the end of my rope with the d*mn Wl200 :-(

i nearly was giving up to get the wl100 running under linux in my notebook
because the card didnt work.

a few days later i tried to edit the code of pcmcia-cs and then it worked
:)

there are a few bugs left in the pcmcia-cs ...
perhaps you can send me the var/log/messages output ?

i dont have the wl200 so i dont know if i can help you

Gruß,
Thorsten
__________________________________________________________
Thorsten Jungblut
Universität Koblenz, Fachbereich Informatik
tjungbluuni-koblenz.de -> ask for pgp public key

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