Thanks for the replies Martin, Michael. Of course, they do lead to other questions...
Martin, that's discouraging. Did a card with another chipset ever work in the 4501? Maybe Netgate will swap for a card known to work in this board. I've read some discussions on here about the merits of various power supplies. Is that the power issue you mean? Michael, that's encouraging. Do you recall your comBIOS version, or in general how old your 4501 was/is? I'm thinking maybe different production runs featured different capabilities (a long shot, huh?). What power supply did you use? The FreeBSD angle is interesting and I'll look into it, but I've been a fanboy for Leaf-Bering since the LRP era. And a lurker on their list for as long. Martin, I'd be remiss if I were to leave this paragraph without a word of thanks, however OT, for all the work and support you do for the Bering Team. Thanks man. As for me, I should have done some more research before trying to build my own WAP. Arrg. -bp Michael Proto wrote: > 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
