Hi,
my wireless-cfcard work perfectly if i used a no-protected wifi connection (i have not tested with WEP encryption) because when i plugged in automatically load the orinoco driver.
If i insert Orinoco in blacklist and manually modprobe hostap my card is recognised as pcmcia but no network adapter is added (eth1, wlan0 ecc...)
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this is my output of dmesg when i plugged the card:
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be fulfilled.
pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines.
eth0: Hardware identity 801b:0000:0001:0000
eth0: Station identity 001f:0004:0001:0008
eth0: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.8.4
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:00:85:31:e2:33
eth0: Station name "Prism I"
eth0: ready
eth0: orinoco_cs at 0.0, irq 169, io 0xc4820000-0xc482003f
udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
and the output of lspcmcia & pccardctl:
yonggun:/sbin# pccardctl ls
Socket 0 Bridge: [pxa2xx-pcmcia] (bus ID: pxa2xx-pcmcia)
Socket 0 Device 0: [orinoco_cs] (bus ID: 0.0)
yonggun:/sbin# pccardctl info
PRODID_1="Wireless LAN"
PRODID_2="11Mbps PC Card"
PRODID_3="Version 01.02"
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0156,0002
FUNCID=6
yonggun:/sbin# pccardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Wireless LAN", "11Mbps PC Card", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
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With orinoco drivers i have some problems with my Router and wpa encryption. I think it's not supported ( eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key );
when i launch wpa_supplicant, iwlist, wpa_gui and wifi-radar detect my network but the led of connection is not fixed and wpa_supplicant enter in a continuous scan loop (i try wext and wired drivers).
Now I try to make the change, suggested by Same, in the configuration file of pcmcia card and to udev for (i hope) use HostAP instead of Orinoco.