Need Help finding out a wireless pcmcia card

Ogi · 11-08-2004, 05:56 AM

Hi all,

I have a Sitecom Wlan WL-011 Pcmcia Card and i have been trying (unsucessfully) to get it working with linux, looking at linux-wlan.org HCL it states that the WL-011 comes with either an Atmel or AMD chipset.

How can i find out which chipset my card uses out of the two (without having to take it apart), is there some command which can tell me what chipset it has.

And if its an AMD chipset, where can i get some information about linux support? -- i can just about find info about Atmel chipsets but so far i have had no luck with an AMD chipsets.

Cheers

2Gnu · 11-08-2004, 09:49 AM

If it's truly a PCMCIA card, try cardctl info. Also look at the output of dmesg. If it's a cardbus card, try lspci -vvv.

As a last resort, check the FCC database using the FCC ID number on the card. You may have to sift through a number of documents, but there are probably clues there in either the OEM documents or the internal photos.

Ogi · 11-08-2004, 11:09 AM

Cardctl info yields the following:

Quote:

PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1=" "
PRODID_2="WCard"
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=d601,0007
FUNCID=6

which doesnt seem very useful

and dmesg does not report anything
And lspci -vvv reports a lot but only relavent info i could find was to do with a cardbus bridge

Looking closer at the linux-wlan HCL it states that AMD chipsets are cardbus cards, so if my card does not show up on lspci -vvv does this mean its a pcmcia card (i.e. atmel chipset?)

level · 11-08-2004, 11:29 AM

Try the command: dump_cis

Ogi · 11-08-2004, 11:34 AM

Aha, the output of dump_cis is :

Quote:

attr_dev_info
fn_specific 250ns, 2kb
manfid 0xd601, 0x0007
funcid network_adapter
vers_1 1.0, " ", "WCard"
config base 0x0800 mask 0x0003 last_index 0x02
cftable_entry 0x01 [default]
[mwait] [pwrdown]
Vcc Vnom 3300mV Iavg 250mA Ipeak 250mA Idown 25mA
timing wait 12us
io 0x0000-0x001f [lines=5] [16bit]
irq mask 0xffb8

Can anyone tell me what this means?

level · 11-08-2004, 11:52 AM

[16bit] in the next to last line indicates you have a pcmcia card.

Check your atmel.config file in /etc/pcmcia and if your manfid is listed you should be OK.

Ogi · 11-08-2004, 12:52 PM

Thanks alot, just one more thing...

Quote:

Check your atmel.config file in /etc/pcmcia

I dont have an atmel.config file in /etc/pcmcia, does this mean i am missing something? i have atmel wireless support compiled in the kernel statically (kernel 2.6). is there anything else i need?

N.B: im using debian, should the config be anywhere else? (e.g. wireless.opts?)

thanks

level · 11-08-2004, 03:51 PM

As long as you have atmel wireless support it should be fine. I've never used the atmel driver, only the orinoco and hostap, which do have config files; so I really should have omitted the last part of my previous post.

Good luck!

Ogi · 11-08-2004, 06:29 PM

Thanks a lot level,

I got the card working, what i needed to setup was hotplug and the atmel firmware and now the card works straight away when plugged in.