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Cxx0 General discussions / Wcf12 Wifi On Sl-c860

« on: July 18, 2005, 11:42:43 am »

Hello all!

I recently acquired a Zaurus SL-C860 and decided to load up OpenZaurus v3.5.3 with Opie v1.2! I then purchased a Linksys WCF12 WiFi CF Card to go along with my new Zaurus . As usual, I ran into problems. After reading up on the WCF12 card with the SL-C860 and with OpenZaurus, supposidly the card should just be autodetected upon pushing it in, however, it is not! I know from other posts that people have gotten this card to work and it strange because this card is rather popular which is why I went for it... anyways, I did a suggestion from a fellow poster Syrae (posting) and obviously because we are both running the same version of OpenZaurus the output of my /etc/pcmcia/config claims to support WCF12... Can anyone suggest how I can manually configure the card? Thanks so much!!  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sitecom Wifi Card

« on: July 17, 2005, 09:47:44 pm »

Haha, I just spent several irritating days trying to get my old D-Link DCF-650W card to work.  It turns out that it wasn't supported.  The file I pointed you to is the file that seems to let auto-detection scripts figure out what it is that's been plugged into the CF slot.  It has WiFi cards, wired cards, memory cards, and random other things in that list.  If it's not in that list, you're probably going to have a hard time getting it to work.

My recommendation is don't get a card unless you can find out what model number it is beforehand.  That way you can make sure that it works before shelling out money for it. Not all cards from a particular manufacturer are supported, so if you just assume that a Linksys will work, you may find that you got one that really didn't.   

 You can do a search for a manufacturer's card in that config file by typing in "cat /etc/pcmcia/config | grep -i <search string>" on your Zaurus.  That command basically reads the text of that file into grep who searches for that search string in the file and prints out every line where that string appears.  The -i makes the search case insensitive so you don't have to worry about capitalization.  When I searched for Sitecom I got no results, so that's probably a good sign to stear clear for the moment.  It doesn't mean that it can't work, just that it will be hard to make it work.  Good things to try in your search string are vendor names (though some vendors are typed differently like both "D Link" and "D-Link" are used) and exact model numbers like "DCF-650W" or "WCF12".

Here's a sample of what that command prints out for cat /etc/pcmcia/config | grep -i "linksys":

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card "Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
card "Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
card "Linksys WCF12 Wireless CompactFlash Card"
card "Linksys LANmodem 28.8"
 Â version "LINKSYS", "PCMLM28"
card "Linksys LANmodem 33.6"
 Â version "LINKSYS", "PCMLM336"As you can see by that third line, my WCF12 Linksys card is in the file, so I know it's nice and supported by the auto-detection.   

By doing that, you can search for and try to find out what models of cards are most easily supported.  

I am no expert in Linux nor the Zaurus, but I feel like I have some idea what I'm talking about with the wireless cards.  Of course, I could be completely off my rocker and I have no idea what I'm talking about, but that's up to you to decide.   
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Hey Syrae,

I have a Zaurus SL-C860 running OZv3.5.3 with Opie v1.2 and I just bought a WCF12 WiFi card! I tried your suggestion.... (cat /etc/pcmcia/config | grep -i "WCF12") and I got the same result as you "card "Linksys WCF12 Wireless CompactFlash Card", however, when I plug in the CF card it is not autodetected! Any suggestion of why this might occur? Or if you could help my manually configure the card! Thank you so much for this helpful information!!!!!

----Steven

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Picking Wireless Lan Cf

« on: July 17, 2005, 09:29:39 pm »

I just purchased a Linksys WCF12 and I am trying to get it working on a SL-C860 Zaurus running OZ 3.5.3 with Opie v1.2! However upon pushing in the card it is not auto detected!! I tried what Syrae said in this post (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13841&hl=wcf12) and the card is shown on my list.... can anyone help me manually configure to card?   Any help please !!!