Re: Problems with PCMCIA on AMD dbau1100

[Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>]

Josh Green wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:28 -0600, Eric DeVolder wrote:
>
> > cardbus isn't supported....and i'm not sure if the pcmcia slots are
> > even electrically compatible (meaning i hope your card/db1100 isn't
> > damaged).
>
> Ahh, thanks for that bit of insight.  I wasn't aware that 32 bit cardbus
> was not supported.  I have a compact flash to PCMCIA adapter which I
> have a 128MB compact flash card installed in, it was detected fine (no
> damage seems to have occurred with either the card or au1100 PCMCIA
> slots).  That solves that problem.
>
> At first I was rather disappointed when I read this reply, but then I
> looked up the wireless card I want to use (Senao NL-2511 Plus EXT2, a
> Prism 2.5 based card) and it is PCMCIA Type II 16-bit which I suppose
> should work using the hostap driver.
I've used the hostap driver on 2.4 with a Db1x board. It should work 
fine with 2.6 as well.
Pete