RE: [ECOS] Prism2 on iPaq linux

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

On 21-Jun-2001 David Bliss wrote:
> It's me again...
> I'm getting a bit far afield of RedBoot/ECOS issues here; if I'm in the wrong
> place to be asking about Linux on iPaq let me know.
> 

Actually, the place to ask these questions would be on the handhelds linux list
or the StrongArm linux lists.  We don't have much to do with the Linux part.
  <ipaq@handhelds.org> 
  <sa1100-linux@wrl-mail.pa.dec.com>

Note: neither eCos nor RedBoot support the card you're looking at which is
part of why I'm passing the ball.

> I'm using a 2.4.4-rmk3-np1 kernel kindly provided by Gary Thomas.  The root
> image he provided is missing the orinoco_cs.o (and hermes.o) modules.  Maybe
> that was deliberate because they don't work? :)  I built those modules
> out of a 2.4.4-rmk3-np1 tree from handhelds.org and copied them over
> (also ds.o and pcmcia_core.o).  The cardmgr doesn't seem to support
> 'orinoco' as a module name, so I changed it to 'prism2'.  My reading suggests
> that they changed the name of this driver recently?  I'm unclear.  Loading
> the card gets:
> 
> bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 vpp=50 reset=0
> bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 vpp=50 reset=1
> bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 vpp=50 reset=0
> cardmgr[59]: initializing socket 0
> cardmgr[59]: socket 0: D-Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card
> cardmgr[59]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
> hermes.c: 12 Dec 2000 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> dldwd: David's Less Dodgy WaveLAN/IEEE Driver
> cardmgr[59]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> 
> (Other sources on the net claim that the wvlan_cs.o driver supports prism2
> cards, but that yields a kernel oops...)
> 
> The exact card is a D-Link DWL-650.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Thanks
> david