Origio Wireless 802.11b LAN CF Card
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Availible from ebuyer.co.uk for around £25 (free shipping in uk)

This card appears to be the same chipset and shape as the Zonet ZCF1100 card, this one however works.

The card reports the following to cardctl

# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "WLAN", "11Mbps_PC-Card_3.0", "ISL37100P", "Eval-RevA"
manfid: 0x000b, 0x7100
function: 6 (network)


The card works well with the included orinoco_cs driver. it also works with hostap_cs but encryption does not work by default.

The card is based on the Prism1 chipset.

configuring the card via wireless.opts and iwconfig work well, kismet does not appear to work on this card (it looks like it does not support monitor mode)


# iwconfig eth0
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"flattel" Nickname:"openzaurus"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0A:04:99:53:99
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:A05B-295D-AB69-0E45-6751-8BEA-C9 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:70/92 Signal level:5/153 Noise level:135/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


Benchmarks give the card very good throughput at close range. I clocked around 700k/sec 2meters from the access point using opie-ftp to transfer mp3s to the ramdisk.

NFS transfers are also good and I was able to watch various medium resoultion mpegs using mplayer over nfs without problems.

Added:  Monday, August 16, 2004

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