Wcf11 In Pdaxrom1.1.0beta1

[patientfox]

ok, ive looked around the forums a bit and someone had mentioned (awhile back) that using the wcf11 with the orinoco drivers was somewhat buggy, causing dropped packets and so on. the poster had mentioned that a possible solution would be use the prism2 drivers which are aparently much closer to the actual hardware on the card. it was also noted that there are no prism2 drivers at that time and today there does not appear to be such drivers in the distro...

as for the buggy wcf11 support, i can confirm this myself, lots of dropped packets when pinging various hosts, downloading is unreliable and sporadic at best...

so i suppose maybe this has been covered a bit but id like to bring it up again, it there any talk of including the prism2 drivers in the future... and will they even work? additionally, is there any documentation out there on compiling your own kernel modules... as i have an entire toolchain in ipkg form that i havent gotten around to installing, i should just be able to unpack the source for the kernel used in this pdaXrom release and build those drivers myself, right..? or is it not so simple in the case of pdaXrom...

any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

p.s. im using a C760 with the recently purchased (i dont know what revision # the card is, if any.. but i know linksys likes to radically change hardware design right under your nose...) linksys WCF11 card and a sandisk SD card, if that matters at all.

[Hrw]

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card "Linksys WCF11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
   manfid 0x0274, 0x3301
   bind "hostap_cs"
This card should work OK with hostap drivers.

[pgas]

the latest beta1 uses the hostap drivers by default (at least they are included)

what are the prism2 drivers?

As for compiling the kernel, see the documentation of the pdaxrom builder on www.pdaxrom.org
and http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/docs/kerne...mpile-3100.html

[patientfox]

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card "Linksys WCF11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
   manfid 0x0274, 0x3301
   bind "hostap_cs"
This card should work OK with hostap drivers.
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great... where do i paste that code to? thanks again for your help... on closer inspection i found that my install is in fact using the prism2_cs module and that is the rather buggy wireless... so id like to try using the method you describe above... but im still trying to get hostap drivers to work for the card... once again help with this is much appreciated. thank you in advance.

[pgas]

have a look at the files  under /etc/pcmcia/

[Hrw]

On start of pcmcia-cs add /etc/pcmcia/*.conf files are used as a base of card information. So you can add into one file or create new one.

[patientfox]

On start of pcmcia-cs add /etc/pcmcia/*.conf files are used as a base of card information. So you can add into one file or create new one.
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ok i must be seriously retarded or broke something or whatever i dont know... but ive added that code into hostap_cs.conf and still not getting hostap_cs loaded up on startup... and i cant track down what service is loading the prism2_cs modules... this is really kickin my ass... and now wireless is just broke, but that doesnt matter much at this point...

i suppose im being kinda vague here as a result of my general ignorance and that you guys arent able to really help me well as a result... but if i re-flash the ROM and go back to the vanilla setup i should be able to enter that stuff info hostap_cs.conf and get it to work right? i mustve gotten the system convinced that prism2 was the way to go sometime in the past... but i cant for the life of me figure out when that was...

if anyone has any like authoratative answers on the weirdness of this situation, i would appreciate a hand, or a link to some kind of authoratative documentation on using /etc/pcmcia/* as a means to setup wireless networking..

also Hrw, ive gone and using cardctl ident determined that my card is pretty much the same as yours, as far as the manfid parameters go... does the string after card have to match identically what cardctl returns? this most likely has nothing to do with the situation but that stuck up in my mind...

anywho once again any help is greatly appreciated sorry to hassle you guys with this

[Hrw]

The problem is that you can have that card defined in few files - then first one wins. It does not have to be same name - manfid/prodid are most important things as many manufacturers take 'reference card' and sell it under own brand - thats why 'dlink dcf-660w' is sometimes recognized as 'sandisk something' etc. I would go into /etc/pcmcia/ and search for all places where you get that manfid/prodid and remove it, then add hostap_cs related one.

BTW - you can remove prism_cs related stuff - hostap_cs is much better for those cards.