Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:43:53 -0700 From: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Cabletron Wavelan works with wi driver Message-ID: <199906121843.LAA05652@kitab.cisco.com>
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[This is pretty long but I thought it would be good to give a complete description of my experiences for other people's benefit. ] By the way, I thought I'd report back on my experiences in trying to use the Cabletron Wavelan card with the Bill Paul's "wi" driver. I grabbed the driver and supporting files from the most recent "PAO3" package and loaded a kernel with this code. Then I compiled "wicontrol". Slid the Cabletron card into the system, ran "pccardc dumpcis" to learn what to put into /etc/pccard.conf, then rebooted. It recognized the card just fine. After running "wicontrol -i wi0 -p 3" and then ifconfig'ing the interface, I was able to directly talk to another wavelan card installed in a Windoze95 machine just fine! My next test was to try a wavelan card and an ethernet card in the same FreeBSD box and set it up as a router. This works just perfectly with one little caveat. I found that if I put my ethernet card into slot 0 and the wavelan card into slot 1, then the ethernet card would take iobase address 0x300 thus forcing the wavelan card to 0x310. The wavelan card would not even initialize at the location! By putting the wavelan card in slot 0 and the ethernet in slot 1, however, the wavelan card take 0x300 and works fine, while the wavelan card is forced to 0x340 and still works just fine there! (I'm guessing the wavelan driver doesn't init. the card to the alternate iobase address correctly?) Anyway, it took me a while to figure out that it worked the other way around, so I thought I'd tell everyone. So... If you want to do wireless networking in your house, all you need are wavelan cards for each machine and one extra PC to use as a router, then use everything in "ad hoc" mode. Also, note that Cabletron is running a promotional on their cards right now so they're not too expensive. I searched for "CSIBB-AA" (the PCMCIA card itself) on "shopper.com" and bought two at $264 (from outside California so there wasn't any sales tax). Now, however I found that my AST laptop (which I would normally use as a router in this way) can't correctly operate a card in slot 1, only in slot 0. (It fails under Windoze95 as well, so it's probably something in the hardware. Been that way since day one.) Also, if you want to take advantage of the power saving mode you need a base station. So, I'm probably going to buy a base station under Cabletron's promotional deal with gives me a free wavelan card. Just letting everyone know that Cabletron wavelan cards are, indeed, the same as Lucent cards. /raj --LAA05579.929212683/kitab.cisco.com-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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