Re: SMC2635W Wireless PC Card under linux

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:49:37 +0000, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:

> Thanks, very useful to me and this works great here!
> I also added the following to /etc/pcmcia/config so as to get it to
> hotplug ...
>
>
> device "8211"
> class "network" module "8211"
>
>
> card "SMC 2635W 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
> pci "07:00.0"
> bind "8211"
>
>
> - Bruce
>
>
Hi,

ADM now has a new driver version "105". I compiled it and it sort of
works, but it is very slow. Reception seems to be good as I am very close
to wireless router. When I checked /proc/net/wireless, I got
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon
eth1: 0000 90 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I am using a compaq presario 2100 with debian installed.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Murat

PS. PCMCIA-CS do not like adding
pci "07:00.0"

in my machine.

Murat Eskiyerli wrote:
> ADM now has a new driver version "105". I compiled it and it sort of
> works, but it is very slow. Reception seems to be good as I am very
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

On booting my laptop (2.4.21 kernel) the 3CRWE737a card seems to
startup ok, ifconfig/iwconfig looks fine, but it is very slow. I pull
out the card, put it back in, and speed is fine. It puzzles me.

-job

Murat Eskiyerli wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 21:16:46 +0000, Job Eisses wrote:
> > Murat Eskiyerli wrote:
> >> ... works, but it is very slow. Reception seems to be good as I am very...
> > ...startup ok, ifconfig/iwconfig looks fine, but it is very slow.
> Are you talking about the same card?

Mine is an old 3COM, but hardware and firmware come from other vendors,
perhaps they are the same inside.

> Many times, I have put in the card
> twice, as the first time pcmcia will not recognize.

On booting i first pull out the card, until all pcmcia stuff has
come up, then i push the card in. Pushed in too soon: slow;
pushed in too late: no network.

> Strangely enough, I could not get it to work in windows either.

I had it working in win2000, but after upgrading the driver it
stopped working, and deleting/reinstalling did not help.
It works fine in Win ME though.

> I thought,
> I knew little bit about networking about apparently I didn't.

Well, i feel the same way; this is not so much logic and science
as magic, so I will start reading the new Harry Potter first.

> Murat
-job