[9fans] 802.11g cards

[9fans] 802.11g cards

[geoff]

Has anybody got an 802.11g (or 11b and 11g) pcmcia card to work?
If so, which one(s)?

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[boyd, rounin]

> Has anybody got an 802.11g (or 11b and 11g) pcmcia card to work?

i have a Netgear WG511 [11b]  and it'd be nice to get it to go.

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[Reto -Yeti- Schwarz]

geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Has anybody got an 802.11g (or 11b and 11g) pcmcia card to work?
> If so, which one(s)?

I have a +/- working driver for the Typhoon Speednet 11b
( http://www.anubisline.com/english/articlec.asp?id=70066&catid=201 )
wireless pcmcia card. I use it from time to time to pull plan9 :-)

Its based on the Atmel AT76C502 chipset so other cards such as can be
found on http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html might work as well.

I've never found time to clean up the driver and then announce it properly
or add to the wiki. Anyway there are some remaining issues with the
driver. For example spi or parallel flash type cards would require some
more code (mine is a eeprom type). I left out these bits (~15 lines)
because i couldn't test it.
And some additions might be required if the card should decide between several
basestations (based on rssi).
Oh - and no WEP.

If there are 9fans who want to use the driver i will put some finishing touches
to the code and test the basestation selection part at the ETH where
dozens of basesations are around (never tried it - no inet access for non-CiscoVPN
enabled OS'es, so there was little point up to now...:-)).

Y.T. Y

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[geoff]

I'd like to know if the Proxim Orinoco (or clone) 11g cards
are actually compatible with the old 11b Wavelan cards
(i.e., an unmodified Plan 9 wavelan driver will work), or if
they are only "compatible" (i.e., they need an entirely new
driver that Proxim will provide for free as long you are running
Windows, Windows or Windows).

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[boyd, rounin]

i  have YAV [Yet Another VAIO] lapdog after this morning's head crash.

it has 802.11b/g which the latest ISO finds.  as per usual i get edge/level
conflicts, but it does find both WiFi & Ether cards and both USB slots.

it also has Bluetooth, which could be a real bundle of joy ... cough

btw:  it's a VGN-S2HP and is called 'kilgore'.

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[Charles Forsyth]

>>it also has Bluetooth, which could be a real bundle of joy ... cough

it's not so bad, because with 9 (for 9) you can stop sooner, as with IrDA,
just after the first LAP.  (it's also a good laugh how Internet was implemented originally:
``it would be funny if it weren't so sad''.  mind you, it's from the company that banned Erlang!)

anyhow, i see it in fortunes now:
	cpu: can't dial helix.cpu: boyd hasn't implemented bluetooth

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[Scott Schwartz]

|   mind you, it's from the company that banned Erlang!)

Really?  Is there a story behind that?

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[Taj Khattra]

> |   mind you, it's from the company that banned Erlang!)
> 
> Really?  Is there a story behind that?

it was an "irrational" move.  :)

it's mentioned briefly in bjarne däcker's thesis [1, chapter 7] and
joe armstrong's thesis [2, chapter 1] (both are well worth a read,
imho).  the ban actually applied just to ericsson's radio group, not
all of ericsson.

it's interesting that the ban occurred (perhaps just by coincidence,
maybe it was a different group) around the same time as the first
version of the mostly erlang based AXD301 switch was delivered.  the
AXD301 project is considered a major success [3].

[1] http://www.erlang.se/publications/bjarnelic.ps
[2] http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
[3] http://www.erlang.se/publications/Ulf_Wiger.pdf

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[C H Forsyth]

>>the AXD301 project is considered a major success [3].

not least because (as i understood it) the erlang version
originally was short-notice replacement for a previous major failure.

Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[Richard Miller]

> it has 802.11b/g which the latest ISO finds.  as per usual i get edge/level
> conflicts, but it does find both WiFi & Ether cards and both USB slots.

Are you certain it's 802.11b/g? My impression was that the 11g chipset is
different and wouldn't work with the wavelan driver.  What do you see in
/dev/pci/*ctl?

-- Richard