[Prism54-users] Re: Prism54-users digest, Vol 1 #155 - 3 msgs

[J Yunke]

Hi Frederic --

I previously used the SMC 2602W card in that machine with HostAP with no
issues, but I don't know if that information helps.

-- Justin

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Frederic Pasteleurs wrote:

> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:08:16 +0100
> From: Frederic Pasteleurs <masterfrd@tiscalinet.be>
> To: J Yunke <yunke@productivity.org>
> Cc: prism54-users@prism54.org
> Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] Re: Prism54-users digest, Vol 1 #155 - 3 msgs
>
> J Yunke wrote:
> >
> >>The SMC 2802 PCI card requires at least P-II 300 MHz to run. I tried
> >>to use it in 266 MHz desktop and the system crashed every second time
> >>I started it.
> >
> >
> > Yikes!  Has anyone else confirmed this?  This seems unusual, since I'm
> > sure most hardware access points don't have a 300 Mhz+ proc in them.
> >
> > Stanislav -- do you recommend any other vendor's card to get this working,
> > or is this typical for the Prism GT/Duette chipset?
> >
>
> Maybe it's an issue with PCI bus version (pesky 2.2 and 2.1 PCI
> specifications), the board seems to be more than likely PCI 2.2 and your
> motherboard may be PCI 2.1.
>
> I remember having problems with prism2/2.5 based cards with P-I
> machines: the only solution in this case was using a more recent
> machine. :-(
>
>
> --
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-- Justin