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Emanuele Santoro | 7 Oct 2009 17:34
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Hint for a working wireless card

Hi!
I am going to give my Jornada 728 a new life, but i fould that my wlan
card that silently served me with no problem under JLime GNU/Linux is
not recognized by NetBSD (5.0.1).
It's a Siemens sanctis, based on an Atmel chip.

I suppose, anyway, that i'll have to buy another card, so I am currently
interested in this card: http://salug.it/~manu/xircom.jpg

It seems to be a "XIRCOM 802.11B CWE1100" card.

My question is, does anybody know whether is it supported?
I read on the pcmcia man-page that it is, but i am not sure about te
model...

Or, is there a way to make my Siemens Sanctis work?
This is the card... http://salug.it/~manu/sanctis.jpg

Thanks in advance...
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Valeriy E. Ushakov | 7 Oct 2009 17:48
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Re: Hint for a working wireless card

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 17:34:09 +0200, Emanuele Santoro wrote:

> It's a Siemens sanctis, based on an Atmel chip.
[...]
> Or, is there a way to make my Siemens Sanctis work?
> This is the card... http://salug.it/~manu/sanctis.jpg

What does Linux say about the card.  What does NetBSD say?

Supporting it might be as easy as adding vendor/product line to
existing driver.

SY, Uwe
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Valeriy E. Ushakov | 7 Oct 2009 18:10
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Re: Hint for a working wireless card

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 19:48:54 +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> > It's a Siemens sanctis, based on an Atmel chip.
> [...]
> > Or, is there a way to make my Siemens Sanctis work?
> > This is the card... http://salug.it/~manu/sanctis.jpg
> 
> What does Linux say about the card.  What does NetBSD say?
> 
> Supporting it might be as easy as adding vendor/product line to
> existing driver.

If it's Siemens SpeedStream card it might be the case that we miss
product id 0x3021 variant.  See e.g.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-December/004447.html

In NetBSD we only have product id 0x0002, but not 0x3021.

SY, Uwe
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Emanuele Santoro | 7 Oct 2009 23:53
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Re: Hint for a working wireless card

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:10:29PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> If it's Siemens SpeedStream card it might be the case that we miss
> product id 0x3021 variant.  See e.g.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-December/004447.html
> 

Uhm... Now, I don't really know if it is what you are talking about.

> In NetBSD we only have product id 0x0002, but not 0x3021.

Uhm, how to try to make NetBSD recognize it as 0x3021 product id?

But, what can you tell me about the xircom card ?

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Emanuele Santoro | 7 Oct 2009 18:16
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Re: Hint for a working wireless card

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:48:54PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> What does Linux say about the card.  What does NetBSD say?

NetBSD says (on insertion): 

sacpcic0: insertion event
pcmcia0 function 0: <IEEE 802.11b, Wireless LAN PC CARD> (manufacturer
0x0000, product 0x0000) not configured

And, on removal:

sacpcic0: removal event

Now, I don't really remember what Linux used to say about the card, but
I remember he said it was based on an atmel chip.

> Supporting it might be as easy as adding vendor/product line to
> existing driver.

I hope..

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Valeriy E. Ushakov | 8 Oct 2009 04:18
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Re: Hint for a working wireless card

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 18:16:19 +0200, Emanuele Santoro wrote:

> pcmcia0 function 0: <IEEE 802.11b, Wireless LAN PC CARD> (manufacturer
> 0x0000, product 0x0000) not configured

Ok, I was wrong.  It's a different card and there's no driver for it,
as far as I can tell.  We have atu(4) for USB adapters with at76c503
&co, but not for the PCMCIA version.

Can't say anything about the xircom card.

I used to use NetGear MA401 in my Jornada 680 while I still had an
open b/g network (our wi(4) driver doesn't do WPA)

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