Hello folks.  following up on my own post, it seems that the wi(4) driver
works perfectly for receiving packets with this new card, but that it does
something strange when sending them.  The driver thinks it's sending
packets, and, indeed, the lights on my access point indicate it's getting
traffic when this card is sending, but no actual data appears on the output
of tcpdump on the associated ethernet segment.  The firmware seems to be
Prism 2.5  Anyone have any ideas?  Is there perhaps a byte swapping problem
going on here?  Anyway to sniff what's coming off the card directly with
another card in another machine?

-thanks
-Brian

On Mar 15, 12:51am, Brian Buhrow wrote:
} Subject: LINKSYS WPC11 (VERSION 3) 802.11B PCMCIA CARD, ANY SUCCESS?
} 	Hello folks.  I've just acquired a new Linksys wpc11 (version 3)
} pcmcia 802.11B card.  It shows up as vendor 0x274, product 0x1613.  I've
} defined these values in /usr/src/sys/dev/pcmcia/pcmciadevs and the card is
} found.  I've even identified the Intersil chipset used, the ISL37300P,
} which appears to be an Intersil V2.5 chipset release.  (The firmware
} identifier shows up as 0x801a, not something NetBSD recognized, but
} something I now have taught it to recognize.)  All appears well, except
} that I cannot seem to transmit packets.  (I can receive packets, and the
} machine thinks it's answering, but the data never shows up in the air.)
} So, I'm wondering if anyone else has worked with the 37300p variant of the
} Prism 2 chipset before, or if someone might have ideas on what I might try.
}  I've already tried disabling the AUTOINC_HERMESE_TRANSMIT_WAR option in
} the driver, to see if the bug discussed there was fixed.  That didn't work.
}  So, I'll keep poking at it, but any insights one might have would be
} greatly appreciated.
} -thanks
} -Brian
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