[MLB-WIRELESS] RICOH Cards in PCI2.0 boxen

[Matt Chipman]

Jason,

these cards are advertised as true PCMCIA adapters so they should fit nicely
into the slot, unless of course, the Cisco card has a proprietory type
slot/slider thingy (which i doubt)  please pull the card out and check there
are no bent pins in the cradle, it should not be this hard.  You could also
try reversing the card but then again, i could also tell you how to boil an
egg!!

Slot problems aside, you need to have Linux kernel 2.4 as a minimum and
install YENTA_SOCKET. make sure you set your channel, essid and mode to
ad-hoc or managed.

Put details of the motherboard in your next email..... I don't think it is a
motherboard problem.  The card should work in any pentium based motherboard.

You should see the card come up in "dmesg"

cheers

-Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Hecker" <jason at air.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 10:25 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] RICOH Cards in PCI2.0 boxen


> Has anyone been able to get the Ricoh chipset based PCMCIA adapters, as
> featured on TIB, working in a Socket/Super7 system with PCI2.0?  The cards
> profess PCI2.2 support but I am trying to make it work on my trusty
> FIC-PA2007 board.
>
> I am trying to get the darned thing working in Linux.  PCMCIA card
services
> seems to load, IRQ and IOMEM is allocated for the Ricoh RL5c475 device (it
> can be seen care of the /proc dir) but it cardctl won't see my Cisco card
in
> there.
>
> Mind you, the Cisco Airo-352 card jams in there pretty tightly and won't
eject
> without assistance by pulling on the card.  This is bringing me back to
the
> heady and difficult times I had with the PLX adapter not working in PCI2.0
> machines.
>
> Curse you PCI2.0<->PCI2.2 incompatabilities.  It wasn't meant to be this
way!
>
> If you have had this adapter working in your cruddy PCI2.0 Pentium box in
> either Linux or Windows or *BSD, please let me know!
>
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