[MLB-WIRELESS] PCI PC card adaptor

[Jason Hecker]

You've probably lucked out.  The board looks like it will have trouble with 
anything beyond PCI2.0  Have you got the latest BIOS on it?  The BIOS and 
chipset dictate if you can or can't run PCI2.0.  I have a Pentium board 
with an option in the BIOS which allows PCI2.1 compatibility.  So, get a 
new board if upgrading the BIOS doesn't work.  There isn't much you can 
do.  I did have a board which had trouble with anything other than 
PCI2.0.  It didn't like the Ricoh adapter, PLX adapter or a PCI DWL-520 
wireless card.  Linux could see the first two but couldn't make the 
interrupts work and for the latter lspci didn't even list the 520 as being 
enumerated (3.3V only issues).

Cheers,
jASON


At 11:28 AM 5/08/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>I'm having problems getting this RICOH card adaptor to be recognised in a
>RH7.3 on a P 166Mhz box. The card works fine when installed in another
>machine (Athlon 1GHz) under RH7.3. Is there a PCI bus version problem ?. The
>machine is a DELL where the PCI/ISA bus is vertically mounted via a socket
>on the motherboard ( 1 PCI, 3 ISA)
>I've tried running freeBSD but machine hangs aftter mounting ad0 during
>installation.
>Also does freeBSD have problems with 3COM & NE200 compatibel LAN cards. This
>machine hangs with either of these cards installed during installation. RH
>7.3 installation works fine with LAN cards but not PC card adaptor.
>In summary,
>
>OS              3COM LAN        PCI adaptor
>RH7.3           OK              ds not loaded
>free BSD        hangs   during install
>
>ne help would be much appreciated as I have spent hours and hours trying to
>find the right combo to get this machine happening as my router to i/face my
>wireless and LAN network.
>
>Cheers.
>
>
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