I was actually using a Wistron CM9 802.11b/g MiniPCI card (purchased from www.netgate.com) with my own 4501 up until about 3 months ago (when I upgraded it to a PC Engines WRAP board). I didn't have any problems using it, although I was using FreeBSD 6 as the OS and not Linux (specifically, an offshoot of Manuel Kesper's MiniBSD project, https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html).
Worked just fine in my testing here. -Proto Martin Hejl wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I've never been able to get any Atheros card (ok, I only own two kinds - > an older one from Netgate, and several CM9s) to work with the 4501. They > all work great with the 4801s as well as the PCEngine boxes I have, so I > guess it's an issue with the 4501s (I seem to recall a PCI reset or > power issue with the 4501 boxes, or something like that - but I can't > find it in my archives right now. If somebody else could either confirm > that or prove me wrong, I'd be quite happy about that). > > Martin > > > Ben wrote: >> Can these two play together nicely? >> I can't see where the CM9 is being recognized by BIOS (v1.30) >> >> Wouldn't the device in the top line here get an irq if the card were >> being recognized? >> >> >>> comBIOS ver. 1.30 20070326 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering. >>> >>> net45xx >>> >>> CPU 80486 133 Mhz 0000 Mbyte >>> Memory0064 >>> >>> Pri Mas SanDisk SDCFB-32 LBA 490-4-32 31 Mbyte >>> >>> Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 0:00:0 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>> 0:16:0 168C 0013 02000001 0116 0290 10 3C 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>> 0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E001 A0010000 11 >>> 0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0011000 05 >>> 0:20:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0012000 09 >> cat /proc/pci doesn't help much. Granted, it's a cut-down version from >> Leaf-Bering. The Wistron was recognized in a Dell laptop under both >> Knoppix and winXP, so the card does seem to be functional. >> >> Any tips or pointers to docs or sites or archived messages will be >> greatly appreciated. Personal anecdotes and remedies are highly prized, >> of course. I've sifted through [Soekris-tech] but come up pretty >> empty-handed. There's been posts on how 4 or 5 out of 70-some Wistron >> cards are bad, and some about 'dead' 4501's, neither of which seem to >> fit this situation. >> >> Thanks, >> -bp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
