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Re: [Xen-users] howto give DomU the pcmcia wlan card from Dom0 ?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] howto give DomU the pcmcia wlan card from Dom0 ?
From: "Christopher G. Stach II" <cgs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:29:39 -0200
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Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On 12/30/06, harm <harmweites@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> hi list members,
>> my goal is to make one of my DomU's act as a wireless accesspoint...
>> So, i
>> need it to have access to the pcmcia wlan card attached to dom0. But
>> how ?
>> when i give the pci=[] option to the domU config file its shows up with
>> lspci but i cant use it... (on debian with module-assistent get rt2x00
>> in de
>> DomU)
> 
> OK. Lost me here. PCI is unrelated to PCMCIA (PC Card), so exactly
> what did you pciback.hide?

The PCMCIA bridge sits on the PCI bus.

>> Is it possible or would it be better to use a more direct interface
>> like an
>> usb-wlan card instead of the pcmcia card.. ?
> 
> Is this an HVM thing?
> Sorry...

USB would probably be better, for now.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II


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