devn-prism.so? Orinoco compatible CF adapters?

Hi,

Anyone know when the devn-prism.so driver is expected? From what I
understand, this was working and tested a year ago, but never available due
to the collapse of CDS Technologies.

I am trying to find a compact flash 802.11b adapter which will work with QNX
RTP 6.1 or 6.2. I have not been able to find a card which looks like it
would work with the devn-orinoco.so driver.

Thanks,

Dave McMordie

Dave McMordie <mcmordie@cim.mcgill.ca> wrote:

Anyone know when the devn-prism.so driver is expected? From what I
understand, this was working and tested a year ago, but never available due
to the collapse of CDS Technologies.

devn-prism.so was NOT based on the drivers from CDS. QNX developed their
own driver and completed it well before the 6.2 release. It was done as part
of a custom engineering project for a large client, and as a result was only
made available to that client for a certain exclusive time period. This makes
sense since that customer paid for the development of the driver and should
be able to have access to it prior to everyone else (otherwise, why would
they spend the $$ to have it custom engineered).

You should probably check with your sales rep about the avialability of the
driver. They may be able to arrange to distribute it to you, or may know
when it is scheduled to become generally available.

I am trying to find a compact flash 802.11b adapter which will work with QNX
RTP 6.1 or 6.2. I have not been able to find a card which looks like it
would work with the devn-orinoco.so driver.

The interface that CF modules other than flash memory or rotating media uses are
significantly different than those that PCMCIA and/or CardBus use. That would
quite simply mean that although devn-prism.so works fine with most PCMCIA/CardBus
NICs, it would not work with a CF module even if that module used the prism II
chipset. The devn-* drivers contain the driver and initialization logic for the
actual type of interface that uses the card. I think that some work may have
been done on at least one of the CF 802.11b NICs, but I don’t know if it ever
made it beyond the pre-alpha stage of development.

Once again, check with your sales rep about whether or not any work has been done
towards supporting CF 802.11b NICs. Chances are if you don’t want to wait for
QSS to eventually get around to it, you’ll have to finance the custom engineering
to have it done.

Considering that CF 802.11b NICs are almost exclusively used in PDAs, and that
QSS has made it clear that they are not persuing the PDA market, it is doubtful
that any such driver is in development.

You may want to check with the people involved in the eQip project that is using
QNX on the iPaq and Zaurus (and possibly others in the future) PDA hardware.

Cheers,
Camz.

devn-prism.so was NOT based on the drivers from CDS. QNX developed
their
own driver and completed it well before the 6.2 release. It was done as
part
of a custom engineering project for a large client, and as a result was
only
made available to that client for a certain exclusive time period. This
makes
sense since that customer paid for the development of the driver and
should
be able to have access to it prior to everyone else (otherwise, why would
they spend the $$ to have it custom engineered).

Thanks for clarifying this-- it makes more sense now.

You should probably check with your sales rep about the avialability of
the
driver. They may be able to arrange to distribute it to you, or may know
when it is scheduled to become generally available.

I am trying to find a compact flash 802.11b adapter which will work with
QNX
RTP 6.1 or 6.2. I have not been able to find a card which looks like it
would work with the devn-orinoco.so driver.

The interface that CF modules other than flash memory or rotating media
uses are
significantly different than those that PCMCIA and/or CardBus use. That
would
quite simply mean that although devn-prism.so works fine with most
PCMCIA/CardBus
NICs, it would not work with a CF module even if that module used the
prism II
chipset. The devn-* drivers contain the driver and initialization logic
for the
actual type of interface that uses the card. I think that some work may
have
been done on at least one of the CF 802.11b NICs, but I don’t know if it
ever
made it beyond the pre-alpha stage of development.

Once again, check with your sales rep about whether or not any work has
been done
towards supporting CF 802.11b NICs. Chances are if you don’t want to wait
for
QSS to eventually get around to it, you’ll have to finance the custom
engineering
to have it done.

I’ll do that. As a university research lab, we are not currently in a
position to support external development, but if we pursue CF any further
(it doesn’t sound like a good option at the moment, partly due to the low
transmit power and lack of external antenna jacks on the cards) I’ll get in
touch with a QSS rep.

Considering that CF 802.11b NICs are almost exclusively used in PDAs, and
that
QSS has made it clear that they are not persuing the PDA market, it is
doubtful
that any such driver is in development.

You may want to check with the people involved in the eQip project that is
using
QNX on the iPaq and Zaurus (and possibly others in the future) PDA
hardware.

Thanks again for your help.

Cheers,

Dave