Re: [jornada] wlan on jornada

> 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).

Is that a cardbus (32-bit) card or a PCMCIA (16-bit one)? The Jornada only
supports older 16-bit PCMCIA cards, most newer cards are 32-bit cardbus
ones.

> 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?

I think NDIS wrapper only works on x86 as the Windows drivers are going to
be for x86. Dunno if it supports CE drivers or not.
Received on Thu Jun 30 2005 - 07:48:48 EDT