Re: [9fans] 802.11g cards

[Reto -Yeti- Schwarz <schwarre@ee.ethz.ch>]

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