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    SubjectRe: "Artem Onair Comcard 11": Variation found!
    On 338, 12 03, 2008 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Michael Jarosch wrote:
    > Hi there!
    >
    > I recently bought a WLAN-PCMCIA-adaptor from Ebay, named "ARtem Onair
    > Comcard 11", which is reported to work with linux on several places in
    > the internet. Well - my special card doesn't work. But this is not a
    > "How can I get my device to work with Linux" issue, I promise! I did
    > some investigation about this card, which I want to tell you, and I hope
    > that this will help someone of the kernel-team to get things right!

    Can you try to load orinoco_cs driver by hand and then add PCMCIA id of
    your card using command below ?

    echo "0x3 0x0268 0x0003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0" >/sys/bus/pcmcia/drivers/orinoco_cs/new_id

    > O.k. - here's what I found:
    >
    > My card's got an alternate label on the backside, saying:
    > "CC-W11-EMB PC-ETS-128"
    >
    > The modalias of the card looks like this:
    > #cat /sys/bus/pcmcia/devices/1.0/modalias
    > pcmcia:m0268c0003f06fn00pfn00pa7CE6F45Bpb427B2E41pc3284C1FFpd00000000
    >
    > The PCMCIA-Subsystem of a recent Kernel (2.6.26) prints out:
    > #pccard ident
    > Socket 1:
    > product info: "ARtem", "Onair", "Version 1.0", ""
    > manfid: 0x0268, 0x0003
    > function: 6 (network)
    >
    > When I plug this card to my Debian Laptop, there won't happen that much.
    > No module is loaded. The kernel just prints out some stuff
    > to /var/log/syslog, saying:
    >
    > kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
    > kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
    > kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
    >
    > No big surprise: There is no kernel module with a fitting modalias!
    >
    >
    > I also tried this card with Deli-Linux 0.7, a distro, which is specially
    > made for old Devices. It uses the 2.4.34.4 kernel. There's also no
    > module loading when plugging in the card - initially.
    > In the PCMCIA configuration file /etc/pcmcia/config I found something
    > interesting:
    >
    > card "ARtem Onair Version 1.0"
    > #version "ARtem", "Onair", "Version 1.0"
    > manfid 0x0268, 0x0001
    > bind "orinoco_cs"
    >
    > which says to me that another Version of the ARtem Onair card with the
    > same chipset, but another manfid would just work. I edited the file and
    > changed the manfid from 0x0001 to 0x0003 and restarted the
    > pcmcia-daemon. When I now plug the card in, the modules "orinoco_cs",
    > "orinoco" and "hermes" are loaded and I get a network device, named
    > eth0. Now I can do some configuration with iwconfig. I also tried
    > changing the driver to "wavelan_cs" (because of an entry on
    > tuxmobil.org, look here: http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_ci10339.html ) -
    > looks the same to me.
    >
    > I don't know if this card does perfectly work with this driver. Scanning
    > (with "iwlist eth0 scanning") is not supported and I can get no
    > WEP-connection with any accesspoints at home - simply because there
    > aren't any accesspoints that supports WEP. There would be some WPA2-APs,
    > but the package wpa-supplicant is not included in Deli-Linux. So: I
    > haven't managed to get a wifi-connection with this card and these
    > drivers!
    >
    > BUT: It doesn't seem to my that support for this card on a recent kernel
    > is far away. And maybe someone with better capabilities than me should
    > get this thing done.
    >
    > I'm very interested in helping! I want this device working, so don't
    > hesitate asking me!
    >
    > greetings
    > Mitsch Jarosch




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