In message <200102120529.f1C5TsV10497@flash.vaultron.com>, Andrew Gillham write
s:
>Steve Bellovin writes:
>> Has anyone successfully used Lucent's Orinoco ISA or PCI adapters?  I 
>> need to use a PCMCIA 802.11 card with a soon-to-arrive desktop machine.
>> 
>> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
>
>With my Lucent ISA adapter:
>pcic1 at isa0 port 0x3e2-0x3e3 iomem 0xe0000-0xe3fff
>pcic1: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
>pcic1: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
>pcmcia0 at pcic1 controller 0 socket 0
>pcmcia1 at pcic1 controller 0 socket 1
>...
>pcic1: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xdeb8:..15
>pcic1: can't share irq with cards; polling for socket events
>...
>wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0: Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE, Version 01.01,
> port 0x400-0x43fwi0: 802.11 address 00:60:1d:1d:35:31
>
>Note that it only has one socket, not two.

Thanks.  What are the implications of the "can't share irq" message?
I'd hate to have a LAN controller that was polled instead of 
interrupt-driven.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb