Sandisk Connect Plus drivers

[Anonymous]

Hi all\'

Does anyone know of some drivers for the Sandisk Connect Plus CF card? I don\'t really need the 128MB memory that is on the card but I do need the wi-fi functionality.

Regards,
Fredrik

[n8a]

I\'ve read on www.externe.net/zaurus/forum that the card is NOT supported and will not work with the zaurus at all for either memory or wifi:

http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/viewtopic....ghlight=sandisk

There was also another thread (can\'t find quickly) where someone went to lengths and determined that it won\'t work either way at the moment due to whatever initializing must be done in order to get EITHER functionality working.

If you do switch to the regular SanDisk Connect wifi card (which I have), it is a GREAT low-power card and works out of the box with every ROM for the SL-5500.

Good luck-
Nate

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your answer n8a!

I guess it is hard to get the card working for other embedded linux tools as well then.

[lardman]

Ah, but if you read the thread he says that there\'s example code available from sandisk and that he\'ll send it to you if you\'re a code guru.

If you\'ve already got the card then you may as well ask for the code and see what it looks like.


Si

[Mickeyl]

The WiFi portion should work with hostap.

[Loial]

Hm, hostap, will try it

[n8a]

I\'m not a code guru, but I should have included that mention for those of you that are!

I\'d love to hear if anyone could get this working for both the WiFi and the memory...

[klight]

OZ 3.3.5 using hostap seems to have huge pauses when this card is inserted.   dmesg compains about register timeouts and irq\'s not being assigned.  If I can get a Sharp flash re-installed, I\'ll try that.

[dhns]

OZ 3.3.5 using hostap seems to have huge pauses when this card is inserted.   dmesg compains about register timeouts and irq\'s not being assigned.  If I can get a Sharp flash re-installed, I\'ll try that.

On a Sharp SL-5500G with ROM 3.10 inserting the card does simply nothing! It neither lights its LED nor does it appear as a CF memory card.

On a MacOS X machine (10.3.3), the PCCard Menu Item appears telling it is a Sandisk ConnectPlus card - but the memory is also not mounted. The only thing you can do there is to \"Power off\"...

So it appears that Sandisk has twisted something really.

But I remember some threads telling that they at least managed to make the WiFi portion recognized on the Zaurus.

Here is my collection of links on this topic:

http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/viewtopic....ghlight=sandisk
http://zaurus.help4free.de/html/modules/ne...php?storyid=251 (in German)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ar...004/01/1/131552
http://www.mycable.de/wlan/835-4.C

-- hns[/url]

[maslovsky]

On a Sharp SL-5500G with ROM 3.10 inserting the card does simply nothing! It neither lights its LED nor does it appear as a CF memory card.

Did you do the cardctl ident and then adding the entry into the config file? This should at least make this card recongnzed by the wifi drivers...

[klight]

The latest Sharp ROM, using prism2_cs as hostap_cs isn\'t included, doesn\'t even see the card (according to dmesg).  

This link seemed to hold some hope for OZ 3.2:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message...?msg_id=6845786

But the same error messages as OZ 3.3.x are reported in dmesg, however the unit does not pause like OZ 3.3.5/6 when the card is inserted.

The good news is that the memory portion of the card can be made to work, as pointed out in the above link by inserting the following into /etc/pcmcia/config on OZ 3.2/3.3.x.

 card \"SanDisk ConnectPlus 128M\"
   manfid 0xd601, 0x0101
   bind \"ide_cs\" to 1
 
 before \"source ./*.conf\" at the end of the file.  For OZ 3.3.x the bind item seems to be \"ide-cs\".
This may also work for Sharp ROMs.

HTH

[dhns]

   card \"SanDisk ConnectPlus 128M\"
   manfid 0xd601, 0x0101
   bind \"ide_cs\" to 1
 
 before \"source ./*.conf\" at the end of the file. 

This may also work for Sharp ROMs.

It is even better to put this into a separate file sandiskconnectplus.conf. The mentioned line \"source ./*.conf\" will then include it.

And the good news: IT WORKS on a SL-5500G with ROM 3.10 (with ide_cs).

The WLAN part is still not working - but others have reported progress.

I will copy this to some HowTo page...

But let me add two questions:#
1. what does the \"bind to 1\" mean?
2. and what is the correct syntax to bind two drivers?
  card
    bind 1, 2

  card
    bind 1
    bind 2

  card
    bind1
  card
    bind2

-- hns

[dhns]

2. and what is the correct syntax to bind two drivers?
  card
    bind 1, 2

  card
    bind 1
    bind 2

  card
    bind1
  card
    bind2

The second syntax seems to be the right one - simply use two bind statements.

Additionally I suspect that it needs something like:

  device \"prism2_cs\"
     class \"wlan-ng\" module \"prism2_cs\"

But trying to really bind the \"prism2_cs\" driver crashes the SL5500 ROM 3.10 so heavily that a hard reset is required! So be sure to make a backup before experimenting...

And we know that it is a Prism3 which appears not to be backwards compatible.

-- hns

[klight]

From the pcmcia(5) man page, it appears that

  bind \"hostap_cs\" to 0, \"ide_cs\" to 1

is the correct format.  (substitute your favorite drivers)

[dhns]

From the pcmcia(5) man page, it appears that 

  bind \"hostap_cs\" to 0, \"ide_cs\" to 1

is the correct format.  (substitute your favorite drivers)

Many thanks! I will try what happens.

Just for curiosity: where did you find that on the pcmcia(5) page? I have googled some pages (updated 2001 or 1998) and they don\'t describe a to clause or multiple binds...

Once again it appears to be a drawback that the Zaurus has no official man pages... Just an idea: the ZUG could start an archive/WiKi separating ROM versions where man pages can be contributed/adapted.

-- hns