ATMEL PCMCIA/V3.4-K2.4.x/Thinkpad 600e

[rec9140]

Having a few older laptop refugees show up one being a IBM ThinkPad 600e I chose to use one of the several 802.11b cards I've got laying around.

Card is a ATMEL card 22mbps. (Works under wimpdoze, checked to be sure card was operable)

On bootup I get:

cardmgr [xx]: Socket 1: Cardbus Hotplug Device

Trying to run wlancardconfig results in "No Wireless card found"

dump_cis shows:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ su
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# dump_cis
Socket 0:
no CIS present

Socket 1:
manfid 0x0097, 0x8402
config_cb base 0x0032 last_index 0x01
BAR 2 size 4kb [mem]
BAR 3 size 1mb [mem]
cftable_entry_cb 0x01 [default]
Vcc Vnom 3300mV
io_base 1
irq mask 0xffff [level]
mem_base 1 2
vers_1 7.0, "Wireless Network CardBus PC Card", "Global", "", ""
parse error: Invalid argument
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#


Shows the card in the socket.

lspci -v shows:

0000:05:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface
Subsystem: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8401
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4800 [size=32]
Memory at 10c00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at 10c10000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2


It was my impression that V3.3 or so had ATMEL drivers included for wireless cards, correct?

Suggestions? The forum posts seem to go:

1) Booted CD, worked great
2) botted CD, ran wlancardconfig, worked great.

I am at:
Booted CD, NO JOY
Booted CD, ran wlancardconfig, NO JOY


Thanks in advance.

[tearinghairout]

It would seem from your lspci dump that you have TI ACX100 chipset in that card.
TI have not released any info. for that chipset, so getting working drivers is all a bit hit and miss.
There is a page here http://www.houseofcraig.net/old_acx100_howto.php
that seems to have lots of stuff about getting this to work with various distro's, including Knoppix.
Good luck.