Re: CF Wireless card woes.

Hi Rene,

Thank-you very much; that has done the trick... and the card can
successfully switch to promiscuous mode for use in Wellenreiter.

Kind Regards

Dan

Rene Wagner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:53 +0000, Dan Middleton wrote:
>
>> getting the error: "No matching CIS Configuration. Maybe you need the
>> ignore_cis_vcc=1 parameter."
>>
>> I have followed the old pre-udev instructions on that link you sent me
>> (to no avail), and I went to add the two udev rules to
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/*my card*.rules but there is no such file.
>>
>
> What you actually want to do is to instruct modprobe to pass a certain
> option when the module is loaded. While you can certainly do that via
> udev rules it's more of a hack than anything else.
>
> The modprobe variant shipped with Linux 2.6 systems (i.e. from
> module-init-tools) expects its configuration in /etc/modprobe.conf
> or in separate files in /etc/modprobe.d/.
>
> So, try something along the lines of "mkdir -p /etc/modprobe.d && echo
> 'options hostap_cs ignore_cis_vcc=1' >> /etc/modprobe.d/hostap_cs.conf".
>
> The reason why this isn't enabled by default is that it bypasses a check
> that tries to avoid voltage mismatches between the pcmcia/cf card and
> the slot. You can use it at your own risk but I'm still waiting for
> someone with knowledge of the hardware to confirm that it can't lead
> to 5V being applied to a 3.3V card.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 15 2007 - 17:15:15 EST