SMC 2435w Drivers

osfestus · 03-06-2003, 10:52 AM

I have seen some interesting responses to wireless card drivers here, particularly by finegan. Perhaps someone could tell me if there are any modules (ala orinoco) that will work for the SMC 2435w pcmcia adapter and RH 8. Of course, SMC provides no native drivers for Linux, and I can't seem to find much info on the guts of this device (actual chipset). Thanks in advance to all who reply.

Jeff

Ukshter · 03-09-2003, 01:32 AM

Anyone got any ned information about this card? I also recently got one and I can't get it setup under any modules that I've found.

Ukshter · 03-10-2003, 10:11 PM

I found this site: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index...linkDwl650Plus

This DLink card has the same chips as the SMC card and has been reported to work. I'll reinstall Linux (sigh) and check it out ^_^

finegan · 03-11-2003, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by osfestus
Perhaps someone could tell me if there are any modules (ala orinoco) that will work for the SMC 2435w pcmcia adapter and RH 8.

Could you post up the output of:

/sbin/cardctl ident

That'll give us an idea of what's under the hood of this beastie. Ever since Dlink released 4 chipsets under 1 model number and Linksys 3 under 1, I don't trust research on vendor model numbers.

Cheers,

Finegan

Ukshter · 03-11-2003, 01:36 PM

this is what i got:

Code:

Socket 0:
  product info: "Wireless Network CardBus PC Card", "Global", "", ""
  manfid: 0x0097, 0x8402
  PCI id: 0x104c, 0x8400
Socket 1:
  no product info available

finegan · 03-11-2003, 02:26 PM

Never seen it, new one to me, googling on the manfid reveals it to be another DWL-650 knock-off repackaged, so in theory it should work supurbly with the orinoco driver. I've been building a little hermes.conf knockoff myself with some of the oddballs Dave Gibson isn't listing yet. I included an entry for your card based on your ident line, these things are always tricky, but it should work. Copy this:

www.clockwatching.net/~fin/random/lqhacks.conf

and add it to /etc/pcmcia

Then hard restart the pcmcia subsystem with:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

That should give you the two happy beeps of a loaded driver, after that you can fiddle with the wireless settings with the command: "iwconfig"

Cheers,

Finegan

Ukshter · 03-11-2003, 02:40 PM

I'll give it a try and get back to you probably tomorrow :S

Thanks for your help

/me loves Linux boards

Ukshter · 03-11-2003, 03:10 PM

after I do all that and run iwconfig I get this error message:

Code:

lo	no wireless extensions
sit0	no wireless extensions
eth0	no wireless extensions

hermes and orinoco modules are loaded but not the orinoco_cs module.

When I try to modprobe orinoco_cs i get this error message

Code:

/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre2/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol __orinoco_startup
/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre2/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre2/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre2/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: insmod orinoco_cs failed

Is my module screwed up or do you have another idea?

PS: Also when I insert my pcmcia card I get a beep that sounds exactly like the beep when i eject the card followed by a lower pitched beep, is that a loading error?

finegan · 03-11-2003, 03:21 PM

The first beep is it seeing the card, the second, the bonk for lack of a better term, is it not binding anything successfully to the card. If it properly bound a module to the card, it should beep much like the first one. The pull out beep is simple card ejection.

If you've got a stock 2.4.20 orinoco module, its v11b, so that's new enough to see a real DWL-650 clone, so I'm probably dead wrong and its something else (so much for google huh?), I'll poke around some more, its evidently NOT a prism2 chipset card, bummer.

Cheers,

Finegan

finegan · 03-11-2003, 03:26 PM

Ah... @!#$ me gently with a chainsaw Heather,

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-l...-Aug/2234.html

Its another DWL-650+ variant, the "+" means not prism2, but TI, and TI are being weenies about releasing enough driver specs to get someone to build a module. Yes, currently this card is unsupported, and there's no immediate help in the future without info enough to build a driver from TI... No mention of Intersil off of the ident line should have tipped me off, sorry to get your hopes up man.

Cheers,

Finegan

Ukshter · 03-11-2003, 03:31 PM

Well that sux :S

Thanks for trying to help me out

Solarus · 03-12-2003, 05:31 PM

Lets keep this post going guys. I hae the same problems as you guys with the new US Robotics 22mb PCMCIA Cards. From what I read around the place they seem to be the same chipset.

I'll keep hanging out here waiting to see if someone can come up with an option. Dist = RedHat 8

Ukshter · 03-12-2003, 08:24 PM

Well there really isn't anything anyone can do till
a) TI/Linksys/Dlink/SMC/Whoever releases some source or real documentation about the chip so a nice little module can be made
b) some gawd like programmer is so bold as to create a workable module by divine intervention.

As you can probably guess both aren't going to happen for a while.

Once I hear more information about a module I'll post up some info.

Oh and my distro is Gentoo, how else can I keep my CPU cycles filled?

Ukshter · 03-13-2003, 05:26 PM

From http://www.seattlewireless.net/index...linkDwl650Plus

Quote:

13th March
Here is the response I received from Texas Instruments today:

Mr. xxxxxxxx,

We apologize for the fact that you did not receive a response for your orignal inquiry. Texas Instruments at this time does not have any plans to release a Linux driver for this chipset or provide the source code so that other may write drivers. The software development kit is only available to the OEM's who manufacture devices based on the ACX100. OEM's that manufacture devices based on the ACX100 must sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and abide by the terms of this agreement regarding driver support. TI in the future may choose to offer Linux driver support for this chipset.

Thank You, David Aguilera Texas Instruments Semiconductor Technical Support http://www-k.ext.ti.com/sc/technical...c/americas.htm

eggy02 · 10-16-2003, 01:18 PM

I found out that it is acx100 chipset and there is a experimental driver for it.

http://acx100.sourceforge.net

I got the module compiled and when I do a modprobe it is giving me errors.

/lib/modules/2.4.18-14bigmem/kernal/drivers/net/acx100_pci.o: init_module: No such device
it says that is could be because of incorrect module parameters, invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in Advance,
Aaron