Re: [jornada] wlan on jornada

Yes, it (sadly) is a Cardbus.... too bad.

On 30 Jun 2005, at 13:43, Colin Sauze wrote:

>> 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 - 08:02:25 EDT