Quoting A. F. Cano (afc@shibaya.lonestar.org): > Hi, > > After having read quite a bit about what is supported, I went out and got > the D-Link DWL-650. This wireless card is listed as working and tested > at www.linux-wlan.org, the revision is P1 which according to D-Link is > a Prism chipset. According to what I've read, the orinoco_cs driver should > support this card. > > I have compiled the latest pcmcia sources with cardbus support. The drivers > load (orinoco_cs, hermes, etc...) but I only get a low tone upon insertion > of the card. > > The hardware is an Intel ISA card with two pcmcia slots (*). Two other cards > have been tested and work fine: a modem (serial_cs) and a 3c-589 ethernet > card (3c589_cs). > > The one thing that could be the problem is the ISA card (I think). In > different places I have read that the DWL-650 works in 16 bit and 32 bit > slots, but also that it requires cardbus. Is it necessary that the hardware > explicitely support cardbus? This is an old board so it likely does not. > Could this be the reason why this card is not working? Of course, software- > wise, the pcmcia package is compiled with cardbus support. > > One other long-shot possibility: could it be that kernel 2.2.20 is too old? > I've tried 2.4.22 but have encountered disk controller hangs due to buggy > HW in this old pentium-1 box. 2.2.20 works great. Because this is such an > old box, I'd rather not spend too much money on it, but I could return the > pcmcia card and get a PCI one. > > If there is no way this wireless card will work in this ISA card, what PCI > wireless card would work with debian with minimum hassle? Do pci wireless > cards use the same drivers (minus the _cs)? > > I welcome any info/opinions. > > Thanks. > > A. > > > * Yeah, I know. Not strictly a laptop, but where else would it be more > appropriate to discuss laptop cards? > Hi, I'm pretty sure that you do need cardbus support, and it will most likely explicitly need to be a cardbus controller that you use. Cardbus is 32 bit, and acts a lot like pci. This explains it quite well (http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/CardBus). I believe I'm right in saying that you can't get ISA cardbus adapters, but I might be wrong. hth, matt -- Matt Foster mattfoster@clara.co.uk ee1mpf@bath.ac.uk http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk icq: 106411042
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