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Title: Linksy Wcf12 Stopped Working
Post by: obsession08 on July 24, 2005, 10:05:12 am

Hi.
I recently purchaced an SL 5500 from eBay along with a WFC12 card. The PDA came with the original SHARP ROM , onto which the cf card seemed to work (the LED was turned on and the  system saw the wlan0 interface) After a few tries I managed to flash the Z with openzaurus 3.5.3. Then the card  stopped working.   (Meanwhile I had moved the zaurus with the cf plugged in, in a bag). LED never came on again, either with OZ or Sharp's ROM.

The dmesg output refers to a time out from the pcmcia driver. I'm afraid the card is bricked. Any opinions?
Any knowledge of anyone who has pried open the card to actually fix it?
Thnx!

Title: Linksy Wcf12 Stopped Working
Post by: lardman on July 24, 2005, 01:07:24 pm

Check that ther kernel module has actually been loaded.

Do an 'lsmod' before and after.


Si

Title: Linksy Wcf12 Stopped Working
Post by: obsession08 on July 24, 2005, 02:37:05 pm

Which kernel module? I haven't seem anything in /lib/modules/... referring to linksys. Are you talking about the hostap, hostap_cs modules?
Thnx!

Title: Linksy Wcf12 Stopped Working
Post by: lardman on July 25, 2005, 06:13:26 am

Yes, hostap & hostap_cs iirc.

Si