[lwlan-user] ZoomAir 4001 on SuSE 8.0/8.1 - Nobody here?

[Joerg Albert]

Hi Rainer,
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Rainer Hantsch wrote:

> Meanwhile I downloaded the sources for the old wlan driver (2MBit) and I also
> read the file "supported cards", which explains that this wlan driver was
> explicitly tested with ZoomAit 4000. :-)
>
> Whow!
>
> So I did the next step, 'make all', and my happyness was gone immediately. All
> I get are a lot of error messages, but it does not compile. It seems that the
> wlan driver is not compatible with SuSE 8.0 any more.

Guess it's a kernel version problem, from the README:
...
SOFTWARE VERSIONS
This version of the driver was tested using the following software:
   - Linux kernel version 2.2.9 & 2.2.12
   - pcmcia-cs version 3.0.9 & 3.0.14
...

> What can I do now?  Is there no newer PRISM-1 driver available?

go back to kernel 2.2.x or port / find someone to port it to 2.4.x
There is a paper about porting drivers 2.2.x -> 2.4.x kernel somewhere in
the web.
The driver at http://mc2drv.berlios.de for the ELSA MC2 (which has the
same hardware inside) will probably fail, because AFAIK Z-COM wrote a
firmware rather different to the original AMD one for those ones.

/Jörg