Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 07:49:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 07:49:14 -0400 Received: from jdi.jdimedia.nl ([212.204.192.51]:25557 "EHLO jdi.jdimedia.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 07:49:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:48:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Igmar Palsenberg X-X-Sender: To: "Robert J.Dunlop" cc: Subject: Re: New PCI device In-Reply-To: <20010722123944.A21182@xyzzy.clara.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Robert J.Dunlop wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've got a new toy in my computer : > > > > 02:09.0 Network controller: Unknown device 1638:1100 (rev 02) > > Subsystem: Unknown device 1638:1100 > > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 > > I/O ports at d800 [disabled] [size=128] > > Memory at d5800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K] > > I/O ports at d400 [disabled] [size=64] > > > > Device itself says : > > > > WL11000P > > It's a PCMCIA bridge, with one big IC : Manufacturer : PLX , type PCI9052 > > The PLX PCI9052 is a generic bridge chip used by a lot of manufactures for > many different cards. What the card does is determined by other chips on > the board not the PCI interface. We use the PLX PCI9052 to build multiport > intelligent synchronous comms cards that are reported as "Communication > controller". The PLX chip does not determine the type of device. I've got hold of the datasheet. It's a generic PCI to ISA bridge indeed. > > No idea why the PCI type ID says it's a network controller, it certainly > > isn't. The whole package is sold as a Dynalink wireless LAN L11H, a PCI > > PCICIA controller with one slot and a PCMCIA card based on a PrismII > > chipset. > > Well the manufacturer ID 0x1638 belongs to Eumitcom Technology Inc and > their website (http://www.eumitcom.com/) shows the WL11000P combo to be a > IEEE 802.11b compliant wireless card. That's my definition of a Network > controller. I'm still thinking about what driver to create.. A driver that emulates a PCMCIA controller is a knightmare, but so is an ethernet driver for this setup. The 2.4.x kernel has support for the wireless card itself, but in a PCMCIA context. Creating a ethernet driver creates a lot of duplicate code. > > I'm gonna plug the PCMCIA card in my notebook, see what it doesn. It it > > does work, the problem is the PCMCIA card bot been supported. Else I'v got > > a big problem :) > > They say they have Linux support but no indication of which version. Don't > see drivers in the standard kernel so I guess they must be supplying it > as a patch. See http://www.eumitcom.com/html/wlan3.htm for download. I don't call it support. The drivers are ancient, pcmcia-cs on their site is a 1.5 year old version, and the driver itself doesn't work. Making it work would require a large amount of code change to their driver, so it's better to start from scratch. > HTH Igmar (who is confused about what to do) -- Igmar Palsenberg JDI Media Solutions Boulevard Heuvelink 102 6828 KT Arnhem The Netherlands mailto: i.palsenberg@jdimedia.nl PGP/GPG key : http://www.jdimedia.nl/formulier/pgp/igmar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/