Prism2 under Debian PPC stable

[Mark S. Mathews]

This is a little OT for the MOL list but I'll answer anyway.  ;-)

This is a bit of a complicated question, there are three or more 
open-source drivers that support the prism2/2.5/3 devices.  There's the 
hostap stuff, the orinoco stuff, and linux-wlan-ng (our stuff ;-).  At 
this point they all support the devices pretty well.  Whichever driver set 
you use, you'll need the *_cs variant of the driver.

At some point, I'm pretty sure the orinico_cs support was included in the 
pcmcia-cs package.  You may want to check for that and also make sure the 
conf files in /etc/pcmcia map the device ids for your device to the 
orinonco driver.

If the version of pcmcia-cs is too old for orinico, 
another approach is kernel pcmcia (which may already be turned on, check 
the config file for the kernel you're booting it'll be in /boot).  If 
kernel pcmcia is turned on, then the orinioco_cs option should be 
available under the networkdevices/wireless options in the kernel config.

Another option is the deb linux-wlan-ng package or to build it yourself 
from source.  I don't actually maintain the deb package so I don't know 
about it's status....I always build from source.  It runs just fine on my 
powerbook so there shouldn't be any problems with ppc and/or mac 
compatibility.

Hope something here helps.  If you have more questions, write me direct. 
As I said, we're a little off-topic for the MOL list here.  No sense 
cluttering folks inboxes worse than they already are.

Since I _am_ posting to the MOL list that I generally lurk on, allow me to 
give my thanks to all the MOL folks.  I use it quite a bit on my powerbook 
G4 and it's pretty close to flawless.  I get an odd 'keyboard state stuck' 
problem from time to time but I can usually clear it.  It hasn't bothered 
me enough to characterize it fully.  That's why I've never mentioned it.

PBG415" + Deb/unstable + MOL/osx makes for a really nice machine that's 
served me well for over a year now.  ;-)

Best Regards,
-Mark


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Gary wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has anyone here used the Prism2 WLAN driver for Debian PPC? I'm using kernel 
> 2.4.18 on a PowerMac 9500. The card is a D-Link DWL-520 rev B2. Kernel 
> compiles are really slow on this machine and since I'm booting the system 
> from BootX, a remote compile and reboot is impossible. I have installed the 
> pcmcia-modules-2.4.18 (and pcmcia-cs) package but can't see that any of the 
> kernel modules included will work with the Prism2 chipset. Any advice is most 
> appreciated.
>
> -Gary
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