I just got a mini-PCI 802.11b card for my Toshiba notebook, with a Lucent/Agere Orinoco chipset. It's working perfectly on Linux and (gasp) WinXP, now I need to make it work under OS/2 if possible...
I know there's another card in the market (PCMCIA) from a company called Artem that uses the same chipset and has a driver for OS/2. I downloaded it, and got the Artem driver initializing the hardware, but not configuring it entirely. (e.g. no warnings at boot time). All I had to do was alter the .NIF file to accept another I/O range (in my case, FF40-FF7F), but the driver appears to still have a few hardcoded addresses: the interface appears as lan1 as expected, and I can even assign an IP address to it via ifconfig. But no communication... I even scanned the net on a friend's notebook, it appears to have its radio turned off (not broadcasting the SSID).
The card appears as an extra PCMCIA slot. Actually this machine has two distinct PCMCIA controllers (from lspci):
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
I managed to get the Texas controller (the one the mini-PCI is attached to) recognized by PC Card Director using Daniela's hacked driver. Haven't tried enabling both, don't think PC Card Director will allow it?
I reckon the driver is looking for the card's ID and giving up without allocating all the resources (PC Card director IDs it, but shows as not ready). Any suggestions?
-- DoC
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