I have an "unsupported" card which works when I add: card "Unlabeled NDC OEM Prism2 Card" version "IEEE 802.11b", "Wireless LAN PC Card/11M", "Version 01.02" bind "prism2_cs" The card itself is unlabeled but is otherwise identical to the intersil reference design. (USR 2410, WL11000, etc) These cards were being sold very cheaply on a website a year or so back. I suspect they were pulled out of some wireless routers due to the fact that they have no markings at all. The MAC address resolves to being made by NDC but it does not match any of the NDC cards. PRODID_1="IEEE 802.11b" PRODID_2="Wireless LAN PC Card/11M" PRODID_3="Version 01.02" PRODID_4="" MANFID=0156,0002 FUNCID=6 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:06:8B:56 inet addr:192.168.0.128 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2244 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1143895 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:145381 (141.9 Kb) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 This card used to work fine a while back when the generic MANFID=0156,0002 was being used to map to prism2_cs, but they stopped using the generic MANFIDs because they were also being used by Orinoco cards so that is why this needs to be added. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Does not execute the configuration scripts due it it not being listed. Expected Results: Run the scripts.
Some googling has returned that it is probably a Sohoware Netblaster II (Sohoware is a division of NDC) http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dev/linux-wlan/2001-q2/0064.html But it is not listed in the current wlan-ng.conf
Link showing the prism2_cs driver working http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1172800#1172800 Linux-wlan-ng [0.2.1_pre20]
Link showing the prism2_cs driver working (when manually adding the entries)
Please report this upstream. We don't want to be maintaining local patches to wlan-ng.conf for random hardware.
I reported it upstream about 6 months before i opened this bug report. I think his name was solomon with linux-wlan-ng. It never made it into the config file so I created a gentoo bug report. Last time I heard that gentoo developers would forward upstream.
