Re: CF Wireless card woes.

Hi Rene,

I am not 100% sure if it was to do with issuing that configuration
change you gave me, but that CF wireless card (DCF-660W) didn't work for
long. It was extremely hot when it broke so may have been due to a
higher voltage, like you mentioned was a possibility.

I only mention it so that others can make an informed decision about
whether or not to try and issue the command.

This does bring me back to my original query thoughl; does anyone have a
CF wireless card that works in a promiscuous state with Wellenreiter (or
kismet, etc)?

I have a Dell TrueMobile 1180 which works fine to connect to the net
(albeit, not when on charge, which is wierd)... what I want is a
suitable card for scanning.

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 Mon Mar 26 2007 - 10:52:02 EST