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RE: WaveLAN PCMCIA network driver
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>,"eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] WaveLAN PCMCIA network driver
- From: "Todd Malsbary" <toddm at iobjects dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:52:51 -0700
I've got an Orinoco WaveLAN card that reports 0x0156 as the manufacturer
ID at offset 2 after cf_get_CIS(). That's worked for me on all the
Orinoco cards that we have here.
Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trenton D. Adams [mailto:tadams@extremeeng.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 8:25 AM
> To: eCos Discussion
> Subject: [ECOS] WaveLAN PCMCIA network driver
>
>
> I finally got the CL-PS6700 going. The documentation failed
> to mention
> one small thing that caused it not to work.
>
> Anyhow...
>
>
> I'm looking at "dev/if_sc_lpe.c". I noticed that it checks for the
> manufacturer ID of 0x0104 at offset 2 of the buffer after calling
> cf_get_CIS (). Is this likely going to be at a different offset into
> the MANFID for every single card? My wavelan card goes 0x15 0x50 0x05
> starting at offset 0 into the MANFID. It then goes "Lucent
> Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE" and finally "Version 01.01".
>
> I'm not sure what the 0x15 0x50 and 0x05 represent, but I haven't
> received the documentation that Orinoco promised me yet.
> Maybe I should
> just check for the first two strings when writing my driver? That's
> assuming of course all future WaveLAN cards will work in the
> same way as
> my version 1.1 card. Of course anyone that finds any different can
> modify the driver to check for those cases. Right?
>
>
>
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