Hello all,
Great site, first post, any help is is appreciated.
I thought I did my research before I went out and bought a wireless card but apparently I didn't do enough ;-(
I have been trying to get a Zonet ZCF 1100 CF 802.11b 11 Mbps card to work on the newest Sharp ROM 3.10, Linux Kernel 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix. This is on a Zaurus 5500-SL
I followed this article:
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/ProdReviews...ent-id-23.phtmland this
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/ProdReviews...ent-id-24.phtmlSorry for all the output in advance, I thought It would help.....
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When I restart pcmcia services with: /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart
and remove the card here is the last bit of output from dmesg:
This function is not support 411c
sa1100_pcmcia_init(0)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0000:0001:0008
eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.8.0
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:02:6F:09:C2:11
eth0: Station name "Prism I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 35, io 0xc5670000-0xc567003f
sa1100_pcmcia_suspend(0)
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cardctl ident gives the following output:
Socket 0:
product info: "WLAN", "11Mbps_PC-Card_3.0", "ISL37100P", "Eval-RevA"
manfid: 0x000b, 0x7100
function: 6 (network)
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lsmod:
Module Size Used by
sa1100_bi 23088 0 (unused)
net_fd 16688 1
usbdcore 22592 0 [sa1100_bi net_fd]
usbdmonitor 5488 0
sharp_mmcsd_m 27408 2
devinfo 2912 0 (unused)
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/etc/pcmcia/config file has this added under wireless network adapters section:
card "Zonet CF WLAN"
manfid 0x000b, 0x7100
bind "orinoco_cs"
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ifconfig -a output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:09:C2:11
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0
Interrupt:35
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0
Interrupt:16
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:23759 (23.2 Kb) TX bytes:23759 (23.2 Kb)
usbd0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:00:01:00:00:01
inet addr:192.168.129.201 Bcast:192.168.129.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1063 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:195678 (191.0 Kb) TX bytes:116194 (113.4 Kb)
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iwconfig eth0:
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
RTS thr:off
Encryption key:off
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What I know:
The only thing I know is that if I modify anything but the pcmcia config I don't get the card detected. I have read articles that say to modify the wlan-ng.conf file, when I do this I don't get positive results. The orinoco_cs is the only thing that has given me detection in Qtopia.
I don't know what the orinoco_cs is or how to obtain it if I need it. Some websites say that the Prism devices need the hostap_cs driver, I know this card is a Prism I device so I don't know.
In Qtopia's network app, under the "current" tab it shows my MAC address when the card is plugged in but says "No connection defined"
when I pull it out it displays: No available service.
My accesspoint is an Apple Graphite original 802.11b router, I use Freebase to configure it for my IBM laptop. I have encryption turned off for the 5500. Where I sit I get a good signal from the AP via the laptop
The only modules that I have seen on the Zaurus under:
/home/root/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/pcmcia are
memory_cs.o prism2_cs.o sharpzdc_cs.o
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I appreciate any help that you can give-thanks in advance