Re: [ACPI-sppt] Sharp MV12W

Net Llama! <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.acpi.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Tomasz Ciolek wrote:

> Oh Gods above!!!!
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:22:38AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Tomasz Ciolek wrote:
> > > Hey
> > >
> > > Thanks for the debug.
> > >
> > > > 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus
> > > > Controller (rev 02)
> > >
> > > This here idicates that you need to compile your PCMCIA as a
> > > yenta_socket aka carbus.
> >
> > If i was using the kernel modules, then that would be the case.  I'm using
> > the linux-wlan-ng drivers which are a replacement for the the kernel bound
> > versions.
>
>
> You STILL need the pcmcia controller drivers, you just need to tell is
> to load the (crappy in my opinion) linux-wlan-ng driver instead of the
> orinoco one...

That might be crappy in you opinion, but they appear to work alot better
in mine.  At any rate, i do have the controller drivers compiled.  If i
didn't I wouldn't even get the card recognized.  The _only_ difference
between when wifi works and doesn't is when i have the acpi patches
applied.  I build the kernel the same exact way.

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