[Soekris] Net 4501 Mini PCI and Linux

[Jim Thompson]

uh, a Lucent card has a PCI/PCMCIA bridge on it from TI.
prism2.5 cards are straight PCI.

both work in my 4501, without any changes

On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Terry Schmidt wrote:

>> 	I've been trying to get my nice shiny new 4501 to use a mini pci
>> 	wlan adapter. I cant even get the thing to load. From what I've read 
>> it
>> should load on the PCMCIA bus, I have kernel support for pci but it
>> doesn't seem to work.. I know there must be something I'm missing. 
>> I've
>> browsed the archives and even done a good search on them. I cant this
>> anywhere, so if it's a repost, sorry...
>
> Your mini PCI wlan card is probably going to show up as a PCI device, 
> not
> as a PCMCIA device.  I've used the Orinoco mini pci, and Senao mini pci
> card in my 4501, and both appeared fine as PCI cards.  Under Linux do 
> an
> "lspci" to look at your pci devices.  Now you will just need to use the
> appropriate driver.  wlan-ng, hostap, and the kernel all have support 
> for
> pci 802.11 devices.
>
> --Terry
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