I have had this card working under redhat 7.0 in an HP Brio celeron thing.
Here is my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file.
You will probably want to get rid of any "-v" pretty soon. Most of the pain
that I had was to do with the PCI interrupt routing. You are unlikely to
find a pure PCI wireless cards as most of the chipsets have PCMCIA glue
built in (the natural target for WLAN being laptops). There are a number of
vendors who have ISA bus adapters for actual PCMCIA cards rather than single
piece cards like the WL200.

Reading the (very good) documentation in the pcmcia-cs distributions slowly
and carefully may help. I found that trying to skim it wasn't enough and
that the information really is in there.

I see that you expect to use ad-hoc mode... The reason I say 'had' the card
in an HP is that it is now in a Dell running Windows 2000 and the WL300
access point software. (To get this to work was a laugh too, I had to
disable power management in w2k) This is because the linux-wlan 0.1.7 does
not support adhoc mode (please tell me if it does!) and you cannot get the
AP firmware to download to it without buying the reference design from
Intersil ($25k).

I wanted to have my iPaq handheld (running linux) talk to a linux PC using
this stuff. It turns out you need a Windows box to let this happen (ok, I
could have bought a physical AP too).

Good luck

        Ken

PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS="pci_csc=1 irq_mode=1 pci_int=1 fast_pci=1"
CORE_OPTS="-v"
CARDMGR_OPTS=-v

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Conway Wirt" <markintrepid.net>
To: <linux-wlan-userabsoval.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:28 AM
Subject: [lwlan-user]: Non-PCMCIA wireless cards?

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