Hardware problems with pdaXrom.. Options

[Laze]

Do you have a piece of hardware thats not working under pdaXrom like a CF network card, USB controller etc?

Please post your cardctl ident and cardctl status and all other info you can find about the card (links to drivers etc.) - then we will try and fix them one at a time and try and make sure that pdaXrom supports as many accessories as possible.

We will probally be holding an IRC meeting with all user who are having problems with hardware but this is meant to be a warm up to see how many problems there are and how much time it will take to fix them.

[dominate]

hi all.... just running pdaxrom after playing around with the sharp rom and openzaurus opie and gpe distros for a while.... i can't believe how sweet pdaXrom is! exactly what i want!

anyway, back on topic... i have the ambicom wl1100c-cf wireless card... it works very sporadically in pdaXrom, although always worked perfectly in the others... what am i missing? it has worked for me a couple times, but even then droped and reconnected quite a bit. Other times, i can't even get it to connect to my network.

I've read a bunch of the discussion on using hostap drivers, but i'm confused... i don't have ANY wireless drivers in lsmod (at least when it's not working), and only a couple even installed in the modules directory, so i'm assuming most are built in. also, my card shows up as eth0 not wlan0.

What am i missing?

thanks!
ken

[desertrat]

anyway, back on topic... i have the ambicom wl1100c-cf wireless card... it works very sporadically in pdaXrom, although always worked perfectly in the others... what am i missing?  it has worked for me a couple times, but even then droped and reconnected quite a bit.  Other times, i can't even get it to connect to my network.

I'm using the same card on a C3100. It seems to die after a certain amount of activity. IE if I have it connected but leave the connection idle all is well -- but not very useful

When I start downloading files or browsing the web etc, then after a random number of bytes (or number of seconds?) the connection dies and I start getting these errors on dmesg:

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eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP

When this happens the following usually brings the card back up:

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cardctl eject 0
cardctl insert 0

And I have to keep doing this everytime the connection dies

I have also tried using the hostap driver as per this post:

http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...759&#entry44759

But evidently the hostap drive isn't available because I get this error:

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module /lib/modules/2.4.20/pcmcia/hostap_cs.o not available

This is the major stumbling block which prevents me from using pdaXrom. Any help appreciated


cheers
-- desert rat

[agraef]

anyway, back on topic... i have the ambicom wl1100c-cf wireless card... it works very sporadically in pdaXrom, although always worked perfectly in the others... what am i missing?  it has worked for me a couple times, but even then droped and reconnected quite a bit.  Other times, i can't even get it to connect to my network.

I'm using the same card on a C3100. It seems to die after a certain amount of activity. IE if I have it connected but leave the connection idle all is well -- but not very useful

Yup, same over here, running RC12 on an Akita with a D-Link DCF-660W. Transfer from network to Zaurus works ok, but the uplink is totally broken, locks up whenever transferring a larger file from the Z to the network. Sometimes the driver locks up so badly that the card can't be reinitialized with the cardctl eject/insert trick, and even reboot won't work so that I have to reset the device.

Have others fallen victim to the same bug? Maybe it's an RC12 issue? The D-Link DCF-660W is a fairly common card, supported by almost any Zaurus OS including the venerable Sharp ROM.

BTW, the hermes.conf file also lacks an entry for the DCF-660W, so it's recognized as a "Sandisk Connect SDWCFB-000" instead. Here's the entry that I use now, can someone please confirm that I'm using the correct module?

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card "D-Link DCF-660W"
 version "D-Link", "DCF-660W"
 manfid 0xd601,0x0005
 bind "orinoco_cs"