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List:       zaurus-general
Subject:    [Zaurus-general] Ambicom WL1100C support?
From:       "Carter, Shaun G" <shaun.carter () eds ! com>
Date:       2003-01-27 14:38:23
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Sorry for the delay, here's the entry

card "Ambicom WL1100 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
 version "OEM", "PRISM2 IEEE 802.11 PC-Card", "Version 01.02"
 bind "prism2_cs"

Shaun

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Larson [mailto:kergoth@handhelds.org]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:01 PM
To: Carter, Shaun G
Cc: Zaurus-list (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Zaurus-general] Ambicom WL1100C support?


Could one of you guys grab the ambicom entry from the sharp rom pcmcia
config?

* Carter, Shaun G (shaun.carter@eds.com) wrote:
> Yeah I rebooted, OZ3 and OZ3.1 detected the card as a Xircom and would not
> bring up the interface (although the card caused OZ3 to crash with the
> diagonal line problem), I deleted the Xircom entry from prism2.conf and
then
> it detected as a spectrum chipset card, so I deleted that entry from
> spectrum.conf, now it just brings up unrecognized card.  The Sharp ROM
> detects the card (as far as cardctl ident goes) but does not bring up any
> network interfaces, even after reboot.  Maybe it's just a bad card.  I'm
> thinking of picking up the D-Link card, people seem to have good luck with
> the MA701.
> 
> Shaun
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerome Campbell [mailto:jerbell@tku.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:29 PM
> To: Zaurus-list (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Zaurus-general] Ambicom WL1100C support?
> 
> 
> 
> Ambicom WL1100C-CF worked out of the box for me. I made no changes to
> wireless.conf for sharps 2.38 ROM or for OZ 3.0.  OZ set all the
> Internet/network settings itself so all I had to do was plug it in.  I'm
> using sharp ROM now and it required some trivial network set up using the
> Internet and wireless setup applications under the settings tab.
> 
> The card also works great with Kismet, although once in a while unplugging
> the card and plugging it back in doesn't work and I have to reboot the Z
> after using kismet before it will work again on a wireless network.
> 
> have you tried rebooting?
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Carter, Shaun G wrote:
> 
> >I have the Ambicom WL1100C CF card and can't seem to get the Z to
recognize
> >it even after adding a new section to wireless.conf.  Here is what
cardctl
> >ident reports
> >
> >Socket 0:
> >product info: "AmbiCom", "WL1100C 802.11b CF-Card", "2.2"
> >manfid: 0xd601, 0x0002
> >function: 6 (network)File.
> >
> >So I tried to add the card in the following formats (one at a time) in
> >wireless.conf.
> >---
> >card "AmbiCom", "WL1100B 802.11b CF-Card", "2.2"
> >manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
> >bind "prism2"
> >---
> >card "AmbiCom", "WL1100B 802.11b CF-Card",
> >version "2.2"
> >manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
> >bind "prism2"
> >---
> >card "AmbiCom"
> >version "WL1100B 802.11b CF-Card", "2.2"
> >manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
> >bind "prism2"
> >---
> >card "AmbiCom", "WL1100C 802.11b CF-Card", "2.2"
> >manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
> >bind "prism2"
> >---
> >card "AmbiCom", "WL1100C 802.11b CF-Card",
> >version "2.2"
> >manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
> >bind "prism2"
> >---
> >card "AmbiCom"
> >version "WL1100C 802.11C CF-Card", "2.2"
> >manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
> >bind "prism2"
> >
> >I tried the first three with the WL1100B instead of WL1100C since it
seems
> >some people have gotten that card to work
>
>(http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:5tHl3NPsuDYC:more.sbc.co.jp/slj/doc/t
> i
> >ps.asp+ambicom+cf+wireless+zaurus+&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8).  Anyone
out
> >there have this card working properly?  If so, what entry did you use and
> in
> >what file did you add it?  (I'm guessing wireless.conf the card seems to
be
> >using the prism2 chipset from everything I could find).
> >


--
Chris Larson
kergoth at handhelds dot org
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/

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