debian-laptop: getting LevelOne wireless to work on Toshiba

[Alain Geenrits <alain@geenrits.net>]

Hi all,

Used to work with SuSE all the time, but now I have seen the light and 
trying to get Debian to work on my Toshiba Portege 3020CT "roadwarrior" 
:-) My wireless NIC is a LevelOne WPC-0100. There is a known issue in 
SuSE where the card is falsely recognized as an Orinoco, but this 
website claims it should be wvlan: http://www.prl.dk/linux/

I added a line to config in /etc/pcmcia looking like this :

card "Digital Data Communications"
 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
 bind "wvlan_cs"

and edited wireless.opts to look like this :

# Lucent Wavelan IEEE (+ Orinoco, RoamAbout and ELSA)
# Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support
*,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:02:2D:*|*,*,*,00:01:24:*)
   INFO="Wavelan IEEE example (Lucent default settings)"
   ESSID="default"
   MODE="Managed"
   RATE="auto"
#    KEY="s:secu1"
# To set all four keys, use :
#   KEY="s:secu1 [1] key s:secu2 [2] key s:secu3 [3] key s:secu4 [4] key 
[1]"
# For the RG 1000 Residential Gateway: The ESSID is the identifier on
# the unit, and the default key is the last 5 digits of the same.
#   ESSID="084d70"
#   KEY="s:84d70"
   ;;

where the 00:01:24 is the start of my WPC-0100 MAC address.

The output of dump_cis looks like this:

Socket 1:
 dev_info
   NULL 0ns, 512b
 attr_dev_info
   SRAM 500ns, 1kb
 vers_1 5.0, "Digital Data Communications", "WPC-0100", "Version 00.00",
   ""
 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
 funcid network_adapter
 lan_technology wireless
 lan_speed 1 mb/sec
 lan_speed 2 mb/sec
 lan_speed 5 mb/sec
 lan_speed 11 mb/sec
 lan_media 2.4_GHz
 lan_node_id 00 01 24 f2 a1 e2
 lan_connector Closed connector standard
 config base 0x03e0 mask 0x0001 last_index 0x01
 cftable_entry 0x01 [default]
   Vcc Vnom 3300mV Vmin 3V Vmax 3600mV Iavg 300mA
   Ipeak 300mA Idown 10mA
   io 0x0000-0x003f [lines=6] [16bit]
   irq mask 0xffff [level] [pulse]

Problem is that when I insert the card I get a lot of error messages and 
it takes a looong time before the card is recognized and initialized. 
Looks like a time-out problem. I have following questions:

- Anyone can confirm that I need the wvlan_cis driver and not wavelan_cis ?
- Did I forget something, any thoughts ?

--
See you on the bitstream, Alain

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Alain Geenrits
email: alain@geenrits.net			icq: 13942850