Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:11:02 +0100 (BST)
From: Duncan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Few Wireless Networking Questions
On 28-Apr-00 Michael Van Donselaar wrote:
>>There is even a good article about it in the current Linux Journal. The
>>one gotcha that I have found is that you have to set "translate=0" instead
>>of the default "1" on the linux machine to talk to winders.
>
> One other small gotcha in my setup: the card will not always join the
> network when the machine is cold booted with the card inserted. When
> this happens, the card status is attempting acquisition.
>
> Doesn't seem to be a problem if I boot w/o the card, and insert after
> initialization. Has anyone else seen this?
I haven't (I run FreeBSD) but can probably guess (I wrote the FreeBSD driver).
The aquisition cycle on the cards is poorly defined. You have to send a command
to the card and wait for a short while. I would guess that the timeout is not
being delivered back to the driver correctly whilst the rest of the machine
is booting up.
If you are a C hacker you can probably add in an extra command to the
control program that "kicks" the driver from userland to fool it into
thinking the timeout has triggered.
Duncan
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