[SPARCbook] Wireless ... (LanEntry support in Solaris 7)

[Ken Hansen]

This is not related to the IBM Lan Entry card is it? These are digital
spread spectrum
network cards from IBM, but I wonder if they were re-badged AT&T WaveLan
cards (I hope I hope!)

I got five of these cards for Win9X laptops, and never got around to using
them -
if they worked here that would be *very* nice (but I am sure these are
different)...

Thanks,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunder" <sunder at sunder.net>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Wireless 802.11 on Sparcbook? Yes, it can be done!


> Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to connect to an 802.11 wireless network
> > with a Sparcbook?
>
> Surprise, surprise. The Wavelan PCMCIA card is supported!
> There is a wavelan driver in my Sparcbook version of Solaris 7.
> I'm not sure what model it supports, but I'd say it does:
>
> [tadpole:ray:/kernel/drv:32]$ ls -Fla pcwlan
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys        48168 May 14  1999 pcwlan*
> [tadpole:ray:/kernel/drv:33]$ file pcwlan
> pcwlan:         ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable SPARC Version 1
> [tadpole:ray:/kernel/drv:34]$ strings pcwlan
> pcwlan
> wlan: can't figure out device type for parent "%s"
> pccard
> pcmcia
> wlan: PCMCIA antenna failure; not connected?
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> wlan: init_board failed to power modem!
> wlan(pc): NIC event code failed to reset!
> wlan(pc): NIC receiver failed to reset!
> wlan(pc): NIC command unit failed to reset!
> .... snip.....
>
>
> Now the real question is, which Wavelan card?
>
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