[Prism54-devel] Re: SMC 2802 V2

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

It is my understanding that these cards use a new firmware architecture.
Not sure of the details but I am *sure* our driver will need some major
re-writing if we are to support this new firmware architecture. 

What we need is:
1. Some of these cards for the prism54 developers
2. Specifications from Globespan or some base source which we can
use as reference. 

For now, don't expect to get Linux support for your card within a
reasonable time frame :(.

	Luis

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:38:02PM +0100, Karsten Richter wrote:

> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >Karsten,
> >
> >you have an SMC2802W V2, extracted the firmware then with:
> >
> >
> >>dd if=2802W.exe of=test.firmware bs=1 skip=2244 count=28944
> >
> >
> >Then used test.firmware as isl3890 file firmware *with* our driver and
> >you got your card to work or just to do the soft reset?
> Hi all,
> 
> unfortunately I did not get it beyond the soft reset point. Same
> "timeout waiting for mgmt response" error messages as
> Esa reported some days ago.
> Just wanted to point out how to obtain the firmware
> from the driver for others to experiment...
> 
> We still have no proof that the firmware is correct - although it seems
> to be, as the card triggers the reset interrupt which it doesn't do when
> I try to load an invalid firmware...
> 
> Are there any probe messages I can send to the card to check whether
> it is initialized correctly?
> Or are there any commands to read out information that can only be 
> obtained when the card has loaded the firmware?
> 
> What about those "Card is in active state" messages - is it okay that
> the card claims to be active or does it mean that the driver thinks it 
> is sleeping and tries to activate it anyway?
> 
> I don't believe the V2 card is so different from other Prism based cards
> that it won't run with the prism54 driver, probably we just have to 
> issue a different command or something.
> 
> If anyone has a hint to point me to the right direction, let me and/or 
> the list know.
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> 
> Karsten
> 
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