Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:30:01 +0300 | From | Andrey Panin <> | Subject | Re: "Artem Onair Comcard 11": Variation found! |
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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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