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From: Bill Paul <wpaul>
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Subject: Re: PCMCIA waveLAN driver.
In-Reply-To: <4067.903109828@cloud.rain.com> from Bill Trost at "Aug 14, 98 08:50:28 am"
To: trost@cloud.rain.com (Bill Trost)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:16:38 -0700 (PDT)
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> Javier Gomez-Castellanos writes:
>     I am trying to install a 2.4 GHz PCMCIA waveLAN card on my laptop
>     running freeBSD 2.2.6. I got a driver for the 915 MHz card from the
>     monarch group web site at CMU plus the PCMCIA package by Tatsumi
>     Hosokawa. So far we can make the 915 MHz cards work but not the 2.4
>     GHz cards.
> 
> You shouldn't need the CMU stuff at all -- as I recall, there are some
> ifdef's in wlp0 for the 2.4 GHz cards.  All you need to do is define the
> right option when you config the kernel.
> 
> Then again, I have never actually used a 2.4 GHz card.
> 
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Actually, Javier isn't describing the problem correctly.

The PAO stuff for FreeBSD 2.2.6 detects and configures the card. You can
select the 2.4 GHz mode either through the /etc/pccard.conf file or by
#defining something when you compile the kernel.

This _almost_ works, but not quite. The card is detected and it does
receive packets from other stations, as evidenced by monitoring the
interface with tcpdump. However, it doesn't transmit correctly. By
enabling some of the debug flags in the driver, it appears that packet
transmission fails: the card seems to return status code indicating
that a collision has occured. The 'transmit' light on the antenna unit
never seems to blink.

I fiddled with it for a while, but without the tech manuals for this
unit, I'm not sure what to do with it. We tried several times to force
the NWID value but that doesn't seem to help.

-Bill

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