[Prism54-devel] Firmware 2.4.3.2 extraction success

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

Karsten,

can you provide a link to where we can get these cards? I see some
SMC2802W cards but.. the sellers dont' specify if its version 2.

	Luis

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Karsten Richter wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> good news: I just got this strange SMC 2802 V2 card partially up.
>
> It initializes but does not report a MAC address.
>
> I finally figured out where the firmware is located and was able to
> extract it from the windows driver.
>
> The exact size of firmware version 2.4.3.2 is 28944 byte, wasn't sure if
> attachments are okay, so if someone's interested in the file, I can
> either post it here or send it via PM.
>
> It seems that the card does not require the soft firmware
> loading mentioned by Luis which means that it should work with the
> current driver version (probably with some modifications).
>
> When loading the newly extracted firmware the interface at least seems
> to accept it and triggers the reset interrupt:
>
> eth2: islpci_open()
> eth2: resetting device...
> eth2: uploading firmware...
> eth2: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
> eth2: prism54_mib_init()
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 90
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 80
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 70
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 60
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 50
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 40
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 30
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 20
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 10
> islpci_mgt_response(): queue empty, retrying (jiffies left = 0
>
> Can anyone give me a hint what these mean?
>
> Regards
>
> Karsten Richter (kasi@kasi-net.org)
>
>
>
>
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