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Just to let anyone interested know, I remember a few weeks ago there was a question raised whether the minipci and pcmcia adaptors would work simultaneously on a soekris 4521. I just tested, and it seems to work fine. I have 2 orinoco pcmcia's and a linksys wmp11 all running at the same time and appears to be working.
lonnie
12-16-2002, 11:41 PM
Excellent news. What do you think of the system now? We just wish the WMP-11 had not changed and was still based on prism2.5. Make sure you hoard the good cards and put the new ones in for Windows clients.
What chipset did the wmp11 switch to? Shows what I know, I wasn't aware of any other chipsets than the prism, hermes, and ruby. Prism 2.5 support is great, now a lot of the cards I can buy locally will work for my short links. Keep it comin!
What chipset did the wmp11 switch to? Shows what I know, I wasn't aware of any other chipsets than the prism, hermes, and ruby. Prism 2.5 support is great, now a lot of the cards I can buy locally will work for my short links. Keep it comin!
They moved to a broadcom chipset which is not at all command-compatible with Intersil or Hermes.
The WMP11 cards are labeled as v27, and have a slightly different FCC. The card is NOT MiniPCI like the ones we are used to. From the card packaging itself, it looks almost identical to the regular WMP11.
Just to let anyone interested know, I remember a few weeks ago there was a question raised whether the minipci and pcmcia adaptors would work simultaneously on a soekris 4521. I just tested, and it seems to work fine. I have 2 orinoco pcmcia's and a linksys wmp11 all running at the same time and appears to be working.
How did you connect the wmp11 to a soekris board?
georgew
01-07-2003, 06:10 AM
The soekris boards have a minipci slot. It looks like a flat-mount simm socket, only shorter.
Find out more at www.soekris.com.
the linksys wmp11 is a combo pci carrier and mini-pci card. You have to do a little work with a soldering iron to extract the mini-pci, but after that, it plugs right into the soekris.
georgew
01-07-2003, 07:23 AM
There is also a soekris board with a full size PCI slot, but I think there are power limitations on it... but it seems to work fine for many radio boards. Soekris has a mailing list and archive, read up on what their users say. Ask them questions, etc..