Two Senao PCMCIA cards in Mips AMD Alchemy board

[Chris]

Josh Green wrote:

>Hello, I'm attempting to turn an embedded AMD Alchemy board into a
>wireless access point and bridge between a point to point link.  For
>this I am using 2 Senao 200mW 802.11b cards (the one with 2 antenna
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>When this happens, one card will function correctly (wlan0 available,
>etc) but the other one will not (no wlan1).  I can get things to work
>sometimes if I start PCMCIA then insert one card, wait a bit and then
>the other.  I've posted this to the Linux MIPS list also, in case its a
>MIPS related problem, but I thought I'd check here as well.
>I noticed in the hostap_cs.c file this:
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I know nothing about the Alchemy product, but I can tell you that I have 
two Prism2.5-based PCMCIA cards in an x86-based board, with TI PCI1520 
PCI/PCMCIA bridge chips and the cards both come up properly.  The kernel 
module used for the PCMCIA hardware is yenta, hostap_cs is v 0.2.4, 
kernel 2.4.26.

>If anyone has any ideas on resolving these issues or can confirm them
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One thing that springs to mind is the maturity of PCMCIA support 
provided for the Alchemy... perhaps this is a more generic problem with 
multiple PCMCIA cards on that platform?

Chris.