IBM card not working ...

[Paul Millar]

Hi David,

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David Gibson wrote:
> That manfid is unfortunately used by most of the manufacturers making
> cards using the Prism2 chipset (which includes the IBM card).

I'm confused. The webpage (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/
Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html#WavelanIEEE) has the IBM card as a
WavelanIEEE/Orinoco/... clone.


> > Yet another problem is ad-hoc mode doesn't work. The card sits quietly
> > without transmitting anything and doesn't detect another laptop in range.
> 
> Are you using the same ad-hoc mode - there is both IBSS (802.11
> standard) ad-hoc mode (the default) and demo (Lucent proprietary)
> ad-hoc mode which are not interoperable.  If the other stations are
> using demo ad-hoc mode, use the command "iwpriv ethXX set_port3 1" to
> activate this mode.

The other machine was running Windows 2000. It didn't say, but I suspect 
it was running in IBSS ad-hoc as per the standard ... I can check this. I 
hadn't altered the Linux driver, so I guess it should have been in IBSS 
mode too.

I'll check.

Cheers,

Paul.

PS
Does anyone have a source for datasheets on these cards (with enough
information to write driver code)? I wouldn't mind having a look at the
driver source, but I'd need to know what all the registers are for ;^)