From: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 802.11 pccard, Agere 0x0156,0x0003?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:12 +0200
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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[Greg gave me the hint to ask here. Please CC me on relevant replies. No ne=
ed=20
to further include him, unless this should go up on the "DriverNeeded" page=
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later I presume.]

Sitting here a  pc card wireless land adapter.=20
id 0x0156, 0x0003, which probably makes it an Agere card.
cardctl info says:
"Wireless PC Card Model 0110"

We bought it quite a while ago under the tradename Lancom Airlancer MC-11
from Lancom Systems.=20
http://www.lancom-systems.de/AirLancer-MC-11b.117.0.html

Background: We bought it because we thought it has a supported chipset based
on the old orinocco driver. The vendor announces "linux" supported, but thi=
s=20
turned out to be only a driver for Linux 2.4.x.
Some old stuff (with picture) can be found at:=20
ftp://ftp.lancom.de/AirLancer/AirLancer-11/AirLancer-MC-11
this seems to be Free Software under GNU GPLv2 even.

We could not get it to work with 2.6 and searching the web gave us only=20
reports that it does not work with kernel 2.6.x.
See http://questier.com/howto.html#Proxim
(the "local copy" links might haver newer source code)

I've grepped the kernel sources (2.6.24) to try to find the id in a driver
or the source code comment "Agere" to see if source code was taken in from=
=20
the 2.4. driver. To no prevail.
Even pages like=20
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers=
=2E802.11b.html
do not help me.

So I cannot really say: is there a driver which should work with this card =
in=20
Linux 2.6.x and just missed the manufacturer id to recognise it?
Where did the old Free Software code go? Was it never ported to 2.6?

Thanks,
Bernhard
[Please CC me on relevant replies.]

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