10.4.5/Intel Support?

[James Feger]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Steve Sisak wrote:

> At 10:27 AM -0600 3/22/06, James Feger wrote:
>> Does the latest beta driver actually work with OSX-10.4.5 x86?  I have 
>> tried it with my "Toshiba Wireless Lan" card, but I get an error.  If it is 
>> supposed to work, let me know and I will post specifics.
>
> Not at the moment -- primary issue being that no Apple Intel hardware has 
> PCCard slots (or PCI for an adaptor card), so there's no real way to test.
>
> Assuming you've found an ExpressCard/34 card, we'd need to find out what 
> chipset it uses and (probably) have to write a new driver for it (if it isn't 
> one of the chipsets we already support, which I would doubt as they're all 
> b-only).

Hi Steve,
The card seems to be supported by the driver, from what I can tell.  I 
just cant get it to play nice with the OS.

Here is what the card looks like to Ubuntu Linux.  I gathered this from 
dmesg, lspci, iwconfig, and lsmod:

[4294726.329000] orinoco 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson 
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> , Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
[4294726.333000] orinoco_cs 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson 
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id. au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
[4294726.427000] eth1: Hardware identity 0005:0004:0005:0000
[4294726.427000] eth1: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:000a
[4294726.427000] eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.10
[4294726.427000] eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
[4294726.427000] eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
[4294726.427000] eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
[4294726.427000] eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:7F:A3:CC
[4294726.427000] eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
[4294726.428000] eth1: ready
[4294726.432000] eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
[4294727.017000] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)



eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"gateway"  Nickname:"HERMES I"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 
00:0D:72:7F:F1:C1
           Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
           Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=15/92  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-88 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:1
           Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


orinoco_cs              8456  1
orinoco                33932  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  6912  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
pcmcia                 24584  7 orinoco_cs
i2c_core               19728  1 i2c_acpi_ec
pcmcia_core            44932  4
orinoco_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic




0000:02:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus 
Controller (rev 01)
         Subsystem: Lucent Technologies: Unknown device ab01
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 0x20 (128 bytes)
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
         Region 0: Memory at 20001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
         Memory window 0: 20400000-207ff000 (prefetchable)
         Memory window 1: 20800000-20bff000
         I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
         I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
         BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt- 
PostWrite+
         16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001



Thoughts?

-james