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PhilMurray went to [PBTech] and bought two Nokia C110 wireless cards and a Nokia C910 wireless bridge (PCI to PCMCIA bridge) for $500 (A good deal). This is where the problem begins.
The C110 card works fine in Windows, as you'd expect. There's even a binary Linux driver. We have a wireless network connecting two laptops, one of which is kept plugged into a network cable so that the other laptop can have wireless. :)
-HOWEVER, the C910 (PCI adapter card) seems to come in two flavours - a Cirrus Logic chipset (which provides an i82365 PCMCIA bridge, which is exactly what the driver wants), and a PLX PCI9052 chipset, which isn't a 'bridge' at al
- it maps the PCMCIA registers into the PCI range. You need different drivers for this - the Prism2 chipset (which the C110 is tantalisingly similar to, but not quite the same as) is well supported with Linux-WLAN-NG. But not the C110! It has a BinaryDriver, so we can't even get PerryLorier to hax it.
+HOWEVER, the C910 (PCI adapter card) seems to come in two flavours - a Cirrus Logic chipset (which provides an i82365 PCMCIA bridge, which is exactly what the driver wants), and a PLX PCI9052 chipset, which isn't a 'bridge' at all
- it maps the PCMCIA registers into the PCI range. You need different drivers for this - the Prism2 chipset (which the C110 is tantalisingly similar to, but not quite the same as) is well supported with Linux-WLAN-NG. But not the C110! It has a BinaryDriver, so we can't even get PerryLorier to hax it.
Be warned, the Belkin F5D6000Z (the only bridge Ascent sell) is a PLX PCI9052 as well.
The moral of this story? Even if you go to buy a piece of hardware that you are told is LinuxCompatible, check the chipset! It might end up not being so.
