[MLB-WIRELESS] Killer wireless cards...

[Drew]

someone's already started a page like this... but a bit unorganized

http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/wiki/?SpecificCases

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paul van den bergen wrote:

>I have a suggestion for appropriate places to put such fixes.
>
>we have the hardware wiki. It already sorts stuff by hardware.  I want to 
>suggest a OS-sorted fix page off the hardware page so that whenever some one 
>finds a fix for their hardware in their OS of choice (or force, for those of 
>you stuck on windows :-P) they can create a link to a fix for that OS on that 
>hardware.  For instance I have now found 2 distinct fixes for FreeBSD 
>wireless problems. I suspect there are more out there...
>
>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:32 pm, Fenn Bailey wrote:
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>>>Either way, that's certainly something for me to play with. More news as
>>>it happens.
>>>      
>>>
>>There is news, and it's happened - I GOT IT WORKING!
>>
>>Thank you to all who gave me advice - it ended up being the afore mentioned
>>file I found as a result of Sneeze's tipoff (thanks) that solved it.
>>
>>Basically, you get the lucent2k.reg file, import it into registry, reboot
>>and voila, it works - no more freezing. I've attached the reg file (dunno
>>if it will attach through the list), but if anyone's interested, this is
>>what it contains:
>>
>>--------------------------
>>REGEDIT4
>>
>>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pcmcia\Parameters]
>>"DisableIsaToPciRouting"=dword:00000000
>>--------------------------
>>
>>God knows what disabling ISA to PCI routing precisely does, but it fixed my
>>problem!
>>
>>For those of you who haven't read the whole painful thread - this reg file
>>fixes a problem with Orinoco cards and PCI cradles (in my case, Ricoh ones)
>>that completely lock up Win2K machines.
>>
>>I will try to put this info on the Wiki board somewhere if I can find an
>>appropriate spot. Maybe the FAQ has a suitable section (or maybe we need a
>>technical FAQ).
>>
>>Either way, thanks again to all who offered me advice, I'm off to play with
>>my newly liberated-from-wires machine.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>	Fenn.
>>    
>>
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