[Prism54-users] wireless extention on prism54?

Jianpeng Dong jdong@otcwireless.com
Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:14:54 -0800


where can I download the latest stable driver? I could only find the cvs
snapshot.

Thanks,
JP

-----Original Message-----
From: prism54-users-admin@prism54.org
[mailto:prism54-users-admin@prism54.org]On Behalf Of Luis R. Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:07 AM
To: Jianpeng Dong
Cc: prism54-users@prism54.org
Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] wireless extention on prism54?



The old driver is exactly that, the old driver. Use the new one :-D
The old one lacks support for tons of ioctls.

	Luis

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Jianpeng Dong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was not able to use the wireless extension tools (iw*) to change the
> settings for a Intersil GT Mini-PCI card (for instance, iwconfig eth1
essid
> myssid, does not work, and an error message was given like "Error for
> wireless request (SET ESSID (8B1A). SET failed on device eth1; Invalid
> argument.).
>
> The driver I am using was downloaded from the old forum with a version of
> 1.0.1.0. The linux kernel is 2.4.22 (the wireless extension version is
15).
> I noticed that the development on this new forum was focused on
2.4.23-pre*.
>
> I want to know whether
> 1. the wireless extension only works for the PCMCIA card, but not for
> Mini-PCI card?
> 2. should I switch to the prism54 driver for this to work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JP
>

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