Cacko 1.22 Rom + Nl-2511cf Mercury

[cjiph]

Hi,

I have a C860 with a NL-2511CF Mercury (prism2 based afik) wireless card. Unfortunatly it does not seem to work using the hostap drivers included with this ROM. It does however work with the hostap drivers supplied with OpenZaurus 3.5.2, and may have worked at somepoint with the wlan-ng drivers (I don't remember).

I'd really like to use the latest version of the Cacko ROM as I'm about to go to Japan and hopefuly will find the E/J program very useful, but would still like everything else to be in perfect english. However for me, I also find that wireless networking is essential for the Zaurus to turn it from a colourful brick into a usable computer ; ).

So:

* Has anoyine else managed to get such a card working in the latest ROM? How?
   (I have also tried turning off the autoconnect networking option, but this does not help me to connect to a network for which I don't know the essid)

* Is there a wlan-ng package (as was suggested in the original 1.22ROM post) I could try? I can't find one...

* Has anyone built a kernel (perhaps for other prism2 based cards) with hostap drivers which might work with this device?

Thanks in advance,
- Cj

[speculatrix]

I have an "NL-2511CF MERCURY" card and it works fine with Cacko latest.

I did have to persist the first time, as I think the signal was too weak from my AP, but have surfed from both public/open wireless lans with no WEP as well as with WEP.

It also works fine with Kismet.

Ideas:

Try reducing the number of bits in your WEP key temporarily, or turning off authentication (not wep, authentication).

Ensure you're using HEX formatted keys.

Ensure you've ejected and reinserted card after using Kismet or wellenreiter etc.