Re: Card not officially supported by the driver (yet).

Hi Kurt,

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Kurt Ortwein wrote:

> This computer is about the size of a shoebox and has "integrated" wifi.
> However the integrated Wifi is a USB card of somekind... or attached via
> USB... or something. I've never seen anything like it (haven't opened
> the box to physically see it...).

Saw something like this at CeBIT 2003 - WLAN was optional and they
provided an internal USB header for it. Cheaper than miniPCI or PCMCIA
I guess.

> I had to add the following to the source code to get the driver to work:
> ...
> #define VENDOR_ID_UNICOMPLABS 0x12fd
> #define PRODUCT_ID_UNICOMPLABS_SLIMPRO600 0x1001 /* cappuccinopc.com,
> Slim Pro 600 */
>
> static struct usb_device_id dev_table[] = {
>    { USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_ID_UNICOMPLABS, PRODUCT_ID_UNICOMPLABS_SLIMPRO600
> ) },
> ...
>
> It doesn't work perfectly... connections fine, wep works and everything,
> I just can't get Link Quality or Noise Level data off of iwconfig. Maybe
> thats just a limitation of the card... i don't know... Not a big deal.

It's a limitation of the binary firmware (caused by the radio chipset ?)
made by Atmel - it doesn't report these data.

> But here's the odd thing (to me anyways... ) it doesn't matter what
> driver I put that code in... 503, 505 whatever... any of the five, and
> the card works. So whats the approriate driver to use? Does it really
> matter? Are there going to be benefits or consequences (Stability, etc).
> For somereason my gut told me to put it in at76c505-rfmd.c. My guts
> usually right... ;)

Unfortunately Atmel gives little info about the firmware diffs.
One of my adapters here (SMC ...) runs fine with both 503-rfmd-acc and
503-rfmd.

Have you got the Sourceforge driver sources?
Just check where they put their USB ids in src/includes/usb/config.h
Guess they should know best.

/Jörg