Yes, I believe it's a BCS200 family chip. Beceem provides reference host stack software for its chip, include pcmcia, cardbus, usb interface device. I have worked with Beceem software stack so I knew this very well. The Linux software stack is incomplete, where it uses a proxy process to relay the network entry management packet to Beceem's windows wireless manager, which also has the supplicant to do authentication. So if you want to use Beceem Linux code base, you need to write a lots of stuff on your own, but you can reference this on Beceem windows source code, where a big portion of it is cross platform to Linux one. Hope this help.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paulius Zaleckas Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:53 AM To: Henry Arcila Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: A drivers question Henry Arcila wrote: > Hi Inaky, thanks again for your help > > I connect the PC Card to PC in linux and when I run the lspci -v the output only > differed of the output without PC Card as show below: > > *** output lspci -v (difference without PC Cart Connected and with PC Card connected)*** > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Unknown device 1a37:bece (rev c8) > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 > Memory at 56000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Memory at 56100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 2 > > ************************************************************************ **************** > > Indeed the device is PCI. > > I have some additional questions: > 1. What is the meaning of this output? The most interesting part is 1a37:bece. It is Vendor ID : Product ID 1a37 is officially assigned to Beceem Communications Inc. Product ID "bece" looks to be their company name also :) Looks like it is BCS200 chip, since it is the only that contained CardBus interface. http://www.beceem.com/products/bcs200.shtml > 2. In the new kernel is possible that this PC Card runs? Yes. > Do you have some reasons why the WiMax adapter doesn't work in this kernel? No driver for this chipset. > If I run a Live CD of ubuntu for example > is possible using the drivers in the same mode so as I have the distro installed in my > laptop? Yes. > 3. I am kernel newbie, if I want to write a driver what is the starting point?, If the > driver is for that PC Card where do I can to begin? You have to get documentation from manufacturer of this chip. Or you will have to reverse engineer this device... even harder than to write driver :( _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax
