[lug] Belkin F5D6020 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA card...

[Mr Viggy]

Okay, after a bit more research (on the FCC's web site), I think I found 
out what "version 2" of the Belkin F5D6020 really means.  This card is 
actually based on the Atmel chipset.  I've downloaded the Atmel drivers 
from sourceforge, and I can get something to load without any errors. 
However, 'ifconfig' is still returning a 00:00:00:00:00:00 as teh MAC 
address.

:-(

Has anyone else got an Atmel 502A based card working?

Viggy

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:29, Mr Viggy wrote:
> 
>>Hey all,
>>
>>I've been trying to get this to work with my laptopp, running Slackware 
>>Linux, kernel 2.4.20.  I cannot.  It see's the card, and when it tries 
>>to load the 'orinoco' driver, it fails saying that the hardware is not 
>>initialized.  I traced through the source code, and it is able to run up 
>>to the card services function that init's the card; then it 
>>uninitializes the card for some reason.
>>
>>Has anyone else been able to get this card to work on their laptop?  I 
>>tried the other drivers, and a couple of them would "init" the card, but 
>>they return 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 for the MAC address (and that can't 
>>be right!).
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Viggy,
> 
> David Hind's project lists the card:
> 
>   http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
> 
> as a PrismII which means that it will probably work with the Orinoco
> driver that you mention.  I don't know why your PCMCIA initialization
> fails but you may want to try:
> 
>   - adding an entry in /etc/pcmcia/config
>   - switching to the wlan-ng driver:
>       http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
> 
> 
> You could bring the card to the Hacking Society meeting in Golden
> tonight or in Boulder tomorrow night:
> 
>    http://www.hackingsociety.org/
> 
> where you can find people (myself included) willing to help (or try to
> help).  And both locations have open 802.11b access points to test your
> card.
> 
> Ed
> 
>