Re: hi, and driver for Sparklan WCFM-100 CF?

Hi Xavi,

I suspect you will find that the drivers for the Sparklan card are far
too recent for the 2.6.15 (?) kernel in Familiar 0.8.4.
Ref:
http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-users/2007-November/000904.html

Marcus.

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 15:27 +0200, Xavier de Pedro wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm newbie using ipaq devices (as well as compiling from source), and I
> got a second hand ipaq h2200 in order to be able to run free software
> operation system and applications on it. In order to have wi-fi internet
> connection, and after reading that SD-I/O cards aren't supported by the
> linux kernel, I recently bought a Sparklan WCFM-100 802.11g Compact
> Flash card, which said it was supported by Linux.
> http://www.sparklan.com/product_details.php?prod_id=21
>
> The card works fine under win ppc2003, and I could connect to internet,
> etc. So I decided to migrate the ipaq to use Linux on it (familiar 0.8.4).
>
> I've read this documentation:
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH2200UsersDoc
>
> .... and followed instructions on this page (below) to allow booting gpe
> from a partitioned SD card and haret, etc.
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/CardBoot
>
> I can boot gpe, and work with it, but the Wifi CF card leds are off, and
> I don't know how to make it work.
>
> I attempted to assign a driver to it through "PC/CF Cards > Assign
> driver", since it says "no driver loaded", but I don't know which one to
> choose from the list. GPE says:
>
> /Your current card identifies itself as:
> Marvell 802.11CF
> Manuf. Id: 0x02df, 0x8103
> Class: network (6)
> /
>
>
> I wonder if I have to try all the drivers in the list provided with gpe
> (familiar 0.8.4). I tried some, but they didn't work.
>
> On another hand, I saw this page reporting that they have a driver that
> should work with this device:
> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/libertas
>
> But I'm not very skilled on compiling source code, etc.
>
> Any tip from any more experienced user would be welcome
>
> Cheers
>
> Xavi
>
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Received on Sat Jun 28 2008 - 23:39:28 EDT