mini-PCI support for orinoco_cs

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:27:03PM -0800, Manoj Kasichainula wrote:
> 
> I got linux_wlan working, but not with WEP, which I need at work. It
> also seemed finicky and refused to work at many points.

	Interesting.

> I still get the "Channel out of range" error:
> 
> Nov  9 22:53:48 samosa kernel: eth1: Channel out of range (0)!

	Seen that. Probably firmware issue.

> But, I can go online with the mini-pci card now (woohoo!).

	I've never managed that. Lucky you ;-)

> The Link Quality is the strange part. The 103 (or thereabouts) is
> being relayed properly from /proc/net/wireless, which generates output
> like this:
> 
> Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed
>  face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon
>   eth1: 0000  104.  216.  112.       0      0      0      0      0        0

	David did remove some min/max stuff in the driver, that
produce this result. Don't worry.

> Also, when I set a WEP key, connectivity dies.

	Have you tried the tcpdump trick ?
	Also, try to set all 4 keys with keys of the same length (I
use to have this workaround in the driver but David got rid of it).
	I think I needed both those things to get it working...

> One more oddity is that when I try to use dhcpcd to get an address, I
> get in syslog:
> 
> Nov  9 22:55:55 samosa dhcpcd[508]: infinite IP address lease time. Exiting
> 
> This doesn't happen when I use my orinoco wireless PCMCIA card.

	Weird.

> Any ideas for these problems? Are there any other messages or output
> you'd like to see? Thanks for your help and this driver; it's not
> perfect yet, but it seems to be the best one for me right now.

	For WEP, someone would have to check what's done in
linux-wlan-ng. Last time I checked was 0.8, but 0.10 has many
improvements. It may also depend on firmware.
	For PCI support, I can't really help because it doesn't work
here. Integrating my ugly code into the main driver is an open issue,
and I don't know if David has any idea on the subject...

	Good luck...

	Jean