On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:54:22AM -0000, Ken Gordon wrote:
> 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.
>

If I can't find a pure PCI, the ISA adapter may be a good second try.
I tried your settings (minus the -v), BTW, and I see the same problems.

One of the main problems is trying to get this to work is, that when you
have IO Port settings, Memory locations, i82365, and pcmcia_core options
all to play with, it can take a while before you hit all of the
possible combinations :-(

> 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.
>

The documentation *is* good, and I've spent a good deal of time with the
"relevant" sections. Perhaps I could read it "cover to cover."

> 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 don't think that Ad Hoc mode will be a problem at all. I have Ad Hoc
working between my wife's Laptop running W98 and my laptop running
FreeBSD. Maybe I mistook what I read in the docs, but it looked to
me that Ad hoc would work. If not, I suppose I could always put
FreeBSD on a box laying around the house...

> 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).
>

I was too cheap to buy a physical AP -- hence my problems trying to
get this card working in my server. I wanted to use the server
to route to the Internet for the laptops. It looked good in theory,
at least :-(

--Mark
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