From: mallum (breakfast_at_10.am)
Date: 2001-12-18 22:07:58 UTC
on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:59:37PM +0000, Jerritt Collord wrote:
>
> There has been a long-standing struggle with this card.
>
yep.
> I and others have attempted cursory modifications to the prism2 driver to
> force 3.3v onto it during setup for a PCMCIA adapter that didn't want to
> automagically supply it. I believe these efforts have been to no avail.
>
I did this rather brutally with an earlier version of the prism2 driver and it *did* work. However I did get 'BAP' ? errors and an eventual shut down of the card after heavy usage.
It also does work with the orinoco_cs driver, but dies aswell under heavy usage.
> But the card most certainly isn't Cardbus.
>
yep.
> There are reports of it running in a Tuxscreen (tuxscreen.net) which is a
> 16-bit PCMCIA slot that is only capable of 3.3v power.
>
Havn't tried it in my tuxscreen yet .... ;)
> I'd love to have something definitive regarding the situation and if there
> is any possible way to work with it like the "ignore_vcc" feature of the
> other driver.
>
me too !