More on the Orinoco + XI-825 + StrongARM

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:23:05PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> No, after recompile, the driver started working!

	I got it the other way. If it works, then don't touch it...

>  Before, it would
> fail on RX for most packets (everything other than ARP, it seems).
> Now, it seems to work just fine...though I do see those TX errors.
> (I see the same TX errors on an x86 laptop running a slightly older,
> and completely un-mucked-by-me orinoco driver too, so it does not
> appear to be ARM related.)
> 
> Now, it's obvious that the recompile changed something so that
> it started working.  However, I would like to know what.  Since
> the compile w/out the option was generating what appeared to be
> correct packets, I cannot explain why the recompile 'fixed'
> the problem.

	Alignement stuff. ARM seems very sensitive to it and David has
been fighting it since the beggining.

> By the way, if you'd like to update your /etc/pcmcia/config, this
> adds support for the XI-825 CF NIC:
> 
> device "orinoco_cs"
>    class "network" module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
> 
> 
> card "IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN/CF Card"
>    manfid 0xd601, 0x0005
>    bind "orinoco_cs"

	That should go in /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf, and David is
maintaining it.

> Thanks,
> Ben

	Jean