[MLB-WIRELESS] RICOH PCI cradle

[Jason Hecker]

Yo,

Just speaking for myself, I am trying to get a Cisco 352 PCMCIA card 
working in the Ricoh adapter in my Super7 motherboard with a P166.  Using 
Linux Kernel 2.4.18 and pcmcia card services v3.1.33 builds result in the 
whole computer freezing solid when I set adhoc and SSID mode.  I did notice 
that /proc/interrupts showed that neither the Ricoh (assigned IRQ11) or the 
PCMCIA card (assigned IRQ3) ever got beyond 0 counts.  This was the same 
problem I had with the PLX adapter... except it didn't lock up when I set 
Adhoc and SSID - but it didn't work either as the interrputs weren't being 
asserted or processed.  The PLX adapter was PCI2.2, as the Ricoh is.  The 
mobo is PCI2.0 using the VIA chipset from 1997/8.  In short, I have had a 
gutful.  I will try the Ricoh and Cisco card in Linux on my PCI2.2 machine 
(Duron) and I expect it will work simply coz the interrupts will happen 
(they did with the PLX card.)

Seriously, for the money and using older Super/Socket7 boards, USB is 
looking better and better.

I don't know how it goes in Windows on the Super7 board - and I won't be 
trying it.  But I suspect it'll fail.

j

At 10:59 AM 19/06/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Can anybody remember if there are issues with getting the RICOH PCI cradles
>working with older motherboards (i.e. PCI and ISA slots on the motherboard)
>I seem to remember someone warning me about this, but it could have been for
>another card.
>
>I do not want to TRY and get this working in an old P166 with Linux and find
>that my hardware is stopping me succeeding if someone already knows it won't
>work.


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