How do I get a Compaq WL-110 working

From: Davies, Huw <Huw.Davies.a.t.compaq.com>
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 05:13:32 EDT

Firstly the good news - I've installed Familiar 0.4 on my iPAQ without
converting it to a brick!

The installation went so easily I was worried I'd done something wrong! A
big thanks to the team for putting this together.

I want to use a Compaq WL-110 wireless card to provide the network. I'd
assumed that this would be easy, but I've obviously missed something. I've
successfully used these cards with Linux on Alpha (kernel 2.2.19) and all
that seemed to be required was to start the PCMCIA services and load the
driver (wvlan_cs). However, when I do this on the iPAQ I get

        bash-2.03# /etc/pcmcia/rc.pcmcia restart
        Shutting down PCMCIA services: cardmgrcardmgr[1335]: exiting
          modulesds: Device or resource busy
        rmmod: module i82365 is not loaded
        pcmcia_core: Device or resource busy
        .
        Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr.
        bash-2.03# cardmgr[1435]: starting, version is 3.1.20
        cardmgr[1435]: watching 2 sockets
        cardmgr[1435]: Card Services release does not match
        cardmgr[1435]: initializing socket 0
        cardmgr[1435]: unsupported card in socket 0
        cardmgr[1435]: product info: "Compaq", "Compaq WL110 PC Card",
"Version
        01.01"
        cardmgr[1435]: manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network)

        bash-2.03# lsmod
        Module Size Used by
        wvlan_cs 23264 0 (unused)
        ds 7856 2 [wvlan_cs]
        sa1100_cs 10992 2
        pcmcia_core 35776 0 [wvlan_cs ds sa1100_cs]
        sa1100-rtc 5744 0 (unused)
        apm 4976 0 (unused)
        h3600_ts 12432 1 [apm]
        ramfs 4848 1
        unix 17504 9
        nwfpe 58688 -1 (unused)

Any pointers would be helpful. Above and beyond installing Familiar v0.4
task-familiar-complete.jffs2 as the root file system, I also downloaded the
wireless-tools_20-1.1_arm.ipkipkg.

A quick word based on experience - I wasted about an hour trying to transfer
files using Zmoden to the iPAQ using PowerTERM - it seems it's incompatible
with rz.

Huw Davies
COMPAQ SERVICES
231 Normanby Road, South Melbourne, 3205

E-mail: Huw.Davies@compaq.com

* Personal opinion only *
Received on Fri Jul 27 02:07:03 2001

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