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Date:      Thu, 06 Jun 1996 14:25:59 -0700
From:      Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu>
To:        hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Cc:        matt@lkg.dec.com, mobile@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Wavelan PCMCIA 
Message-ID:  <199606062126.OAA25431@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jun 1996 02:38:05 %2B0900." <199606061738.CAA19844@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> 

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Hosokawa Tatsumi,

I suppose this is your way of telling me that you ported
the wavelan driver into the pccard setup.  Thank you. 

Given that we have about 12 laptops and N more "base stations"
using the current wavelan drivers + a fair number of kernel
hacks, we are still mired in 2.1R.  However over the summer,
we want to upgrade our kernel environment (at least) to speak
pccard.  There are a number of pccards that we would like
to be able to use at the same time as wavelan cards, basically
gps and/or various crypto cards (a des card would be nice).  
If there are cards along those lines (crypto/gps) that anyone has 
used, I would appreciate hearing about it.

We are still using my non-pccard wavelan drivers (isa/pcmcia).  
(The pcmcia driver is basically like David Greenman's if_ze.c driver).
I have put a new version out of both isa/pcmcia drivers available at
zymurgy.cs.pdx.edu via anon ftp in the mobility directory.
	ftp://zymurgy.cs.pdx.edu/pub/mobility/wavelan.freebsd.tar.gz
Changes include the following:
	.support for multicast (minimal testing, but it works with nv)
		in both drivers
	.fixed a bug in how promiscious mode was done on the pcmcia driver,
		so you can get into/out of tcpdump faster
	.put a workaround in for a hang problem that shows up on
	reception of frames (apparently due to "overruns") ONLY with
	2.0 cards.  This does not happen on 1.0 and 1.1 wavelan cards.
	It doesn't happen on all 2.0 cards either, but it does happen
	on some.
	If the overrun occurs, a hw reset is done, and an input error
	is logged.

I hope we can get up to sync with the pccard later this summer.

Re dec stuff.  We are doing mobile-ip (and in fact it is beginning to work),
so we aren't interested in "roaming" (basically link layer access point
switches) per se.  The way att seems to do that,
it involves having a different NWID per access point (bridge).  The unix
drivers won't understand that of course.  I understand from Kannan A.,
formerly at DEC,  that DEC has a form
of mobile-ip.  Are your access points running that Matt?

				regards,

				Jim Binkley
				jrb@cs.pdx.edu
				Portland State CS dept.




Your message <199606061738.CAA19844@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>:
>In article <199606061247.MAA16354@whydos.lkg.dec.com>
>matt@lkg.dec.com writes:
>
>>> I'm using the 960602 version of pccard-test with a Digital RoamAbout/DS.
>>> Happily I can say that it seems to working fine after I added 
>>> 
>>> card "Digital" "RoamAbout/DS"           # version 2.00
>>>         config  default "wlp0" any
>>>         ether   wavelan
>>> 
>>> to /etc/pccard.conf.
>
>Wow!
>
>Pls tell me the detailed configuration of your card (NetID, MAC addr,
>etc.) and your environment (how many cars? are you using the
>station?).
>
>I've not succeeded to use this card under our package yet.
>
>--
>	HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi              E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
>	  WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html
>	Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan



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