User`s guide

... and Windows CE
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Using a ORiNOCO/IEEE PC Card under Windows CE 2.0 is possible, but whether
or not the current releases of the ORiNOCO driver run properly depends upon the
type of processor used in the H/PC. See the next section for more information.
Windows CE 2.10 and 2.11 include minor updates to version 2.0, therefore using
the ORiNOCO/IEEE PC Card under these versions is also supported.
Processor types
H/PC devices use on board processors, integrated within their hardware. The most
commonly used processor types that are supported by Windows CE are:
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ARM (such as the 720T)
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StrongARM (such as the Digital SA-1100 and the HP Jornada)
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X86 (such as the AMD 486, AMD Elan and Intel Pentium series)
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SH3 (such as the Hitachi SH7708)
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SH4 (such as the Hitachi SH7750)
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PowerPC (such as the Motorola MPC821)
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MIPS (such as the NEC VR4xxx series)
Each processor has its own instruction set, and consequently each processor
requires its own driver. ORiNOCO drivers required to drive the ORiNOCO/IEEE PC
Card can be compiled to produce the driver for the specific environment, if a
suitable compiler is available.
So far, Lucent Technologies has provided a ORiNOCO driver for H/PC devices that
run the following processor types:
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MIPS (R4000 Family)
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SH3 (only the Hitachi SH7708)
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SH4 (only the Hitachi SH7750)
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SA1100 (StrongARM)
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I486 (X86 family)
In principle the ORiNOCO/IEEE PC Card can be used by all systems that are based
on the processors listed above. However, there may be small differences in
implementation of some of the supporting utilities within a specific product that could
impose a problem. For instance, in some of the systems tested, the setting of the
properties of the ORiNOCO/IEEE PC Card using the control panel was hard to do,
as a result of differences in character sets.
ORiNOCO systems in H/PC devices under Windows CE
Though the above section already shows what processors are required to run the
ORiNOCO driver, only a subset of these H/PC devices have been used during
verification testing. So far ORiNOCO has been tested in the following systems: