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Sharp ROMs / Symbol Spectrum24 Wifi Card On 5500 Cacko

« on: March 10, 2005, 12:17:16 am »

Yeh, that's the ROM I have loaded... So plug and play that time around?
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It works perfect, and the drivers are compiled in the kernel and are not modules. I didn't even have to use any special programs to configure it, I just used the network setting program. I did have my own spectrum.conf file in there from when I was working on my own module, I don't know if that would have made a difference. The contents of my /home/etc/pcmcia/spectrum.conf are :

device "spectrum_cs"
#  class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "spectrum_cs"
  class "spectrum" module "hermes", "orinoco", "spectrum_cs"

card "LA4100 Spectrum24 CF WLAN Card"
  manfid 0x026c, 0x0001
  bind "spectrum_cs"

card "Socket Communications CF+ LP WLAN Card"
  manfid 0x0104, 0x0001
  bind "spectrum_cs"

The other thing I didn't realize was I have 3 other files (spectrum, wireless.opts, and wlng2wt.opts). I basicly copied the files from the original sharp spectrum drivers, but I don't know how much of a role they play.

Oh also, iwconfig said something about no wireless extensions for me as well even though everything works.

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Sharp ROMs / Symbol Spectrum24 Wifi Card On 5500 Cacko

« on: March 05, 2005, 05:12:13 pm »

Ha, I'm new to everything zaurus, and especially new to this forumn, and I didn't see this :

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3323

I'm going to give this a try

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Cool, that works perfect.

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Sharp ROMs / Symbol Spectrum24 Wifi Card On 5500 Cacko

« on: March 05, 2005, 04:24:26 pm »

I tried that too. I think the card may be defective, as the activity light doesn't even blink when I insert the card.
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Card is probably not defective, my card didn't light up either when I didn't have drivers for it.  in the /libs/module/ kernel directory search for spectrum_cs.o to see if the module exists at all. You can also try "modprobe spectrum_cs".

I recently tried installing the 5000D cacko/crow rom, I love it but it didn't come with any drivers for my spectrum24 card. I had to download the kernel and build the modules myself. The only problem I am finding now is that the modules only seem to work with no SSID and no WEP. And I was reading some instructions on the web which say the kernel has to have wireless extensions enabled and I have to use something like wconfig or something like that. And the cacko kernel I have doesn't, and I am not sure how exactly to rebuild that particular kernel. I might give it a try and see if I can do it right, unfortunately I am a little concerned since I am doing all my cross-compiling from cygwin and not from an actual linux os.

I am a little disappointed by this card (the modules and everything for it), the reason I bought it, was because I read that it is really good on battery life.