RE: [ECOS] WaveLAN PCMCIA network driver

["Todd Malsbary" <toddm at iobjects dot com>]

I've got an Orinoco WaveLAN card that reports 0x0156 as the manufacturer
ID at offset 2 after cf_get_CIS().  That's worked for me on all the
Orinoco cards that we have here.

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trenton D. Adams [mailto:tadams@extremeeng.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 8:25 AM
> To: eCos Discussion
> Subject: [ECOS] WaveLAN PCMCIA network driver
> 
> 
> I finally got the CL-PS6700 going.  The documentation failed 
> to mention
> one small thing that caused it not to work.
> 
> Anyhow...
> 
> 
> I'm looking at "dev/if_sc_lpe.c".  I noticed that it checks for the
> manufacturer ID of 0x0104 at offset 2 of the buffer after calling
> cf_get_CIS ().  Is this likely going to be at a different offset into
> the MANFID for every single card?  My wavelan card goes 0x15 0x50 0x05
> starting at offset 0 into the MANFID.  It then goes "Lucent
> Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE" and finally "Version 01.01".
> 
> I'm not sure what the 0x15 0x50 and 0x05 represent, but I haven't
> received the documentation that Orinoco promised me yet.  
> Maybe I should
> just check for the first two strings when writing my driver?  That's
> assuming of course all future WaveLAN cards will work in the 
> same way as
> my version 1.1 card.  Of course anyone that finds any different can
> modify the driver to check for those cases.  Right?
> 
> 
> 
> Trenton D. Adams
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