Re: [jornada] wlan on jornada

Hey Matthis.

Sorry to say this, but the card you're talking about is CardBus type
("-CB" stands for it). The Jornada slot is PCMCIA. CardBus differs
from PCMCIA by having 32bits wide bus, while PCMCIA has only 16.

Cheers
Otto Waltari

> Dear linux-jornada users,
> Having recently succeeded to install linux on my jornada 720, (I
> tried familiar distrib, both gpe and opie but find them quite memory
> consuming...), I now turned to make my wireless pcmcia card work on
> it. I searched quite a bit on the matter, but it remains a complex
> issue for me. In particular:
> I have a WLI-CB-G54 Buffalo card, and from what I gathered it is not
> supported on linux yet... and when I put it in the jornada the power
> led doesn't turn on. (the pcmcia-cs package is installed).
> 1. I don't really care using 11mbps instead of 54mbps, does that mean
> I could use drivers for 802.11b ?
> 2. About non-native driver solutions such as linuxant and
> NdisWrapper: are they not too memory consuming for the jornada 720?
> 3. Any easy how-to on this?
>
> Thank you for any help!
> Best regards,
>
>
> -matthis
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Received on Thu Jun 30 2005 - 06:31:17 EDT