Re: HP Omnibook 800CT PCMCIA wireless issues

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 07/03/05


Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:38:29 -0400

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:29:24 +0000 (UTC), James_Ward
  <James_Ward@Yahoo-dot-COM.no-spam.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to turn this old subnotebook into a wireless VNC viewer.
> Everything works splendidly except the wireless networking. I've
> tried several Atheros based cards with 2.4 kernels in both Debian
> Sarge and Slackware 10.1 and Debian supplied madwifi as well as CVS.
> The system has a TI1130 controller. I see the following symptoms:
>
> network slows or drops after a while requiring reinitialization
> system freezes
> occassionally the kernel panics
>
> Does CARDBUS ready mean 32 bit?
Yes.

> Could it be that my system has 16 bit slots and the problems are due
> to 32 bit cards?
>
A 32 bit card shouldn't even fit in a 16 bit slot. To prove whether
the card is 16 or 32 bit, a 32 bit card should appear in the output of
the command lspci.

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