[Prism54-users] Sitecom wl-110i pci working on Redhat 9 !!!

[Rob Gipman]

People, after some hacking and coffee i got my Sitecom WL-110i pci card 
running with the latest code.


Nov  7 11:45:15 Gipukan_remote kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 
1.0.2.2
Nov  7 11:45:15 Gipukan_remote kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:00.0
Nov  7 11:45:15 Gipukan_remote /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1
Nov  7 11:48:43 Gipukan_remote kernel: islpci_mgt_response(): flushed 17 
entries
with modprobe prism54

lsmod shows

prism54                30696   1
firmware_class          5436   0  [prism54]

Kernel is now linux 2.4.23-pre9 with prism patch
uname -a
Linux Gipukan_remote 2.4.23-pre9 #1 Fri Nov 7 10:47:11 EAT 2003 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux


iwconfig shows a warning
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
Some things may be broken...

eth1      PRISM Duette  ESSID:"Dogo1"
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: C2:B8:B2:69:51:A9
           Bit Rate:54Mb/s   Sensitivity=20/917528
           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
           Encryption key:off
           Link Quality:119/67  Signal level:-75 dBm  Noise level:-194 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:4  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Encryption does not work yet or i don't know exact how.

unencrypted works like a champ at 54Mb ping works good.

I have to load the prism54 module by hand (script) at the driver is not 
loaded auto at boot.

Procedure is followd was

Get Linux kernel => linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2
Get firmware => isl3890
Get patch to get from 2.4.22 to 2.4.23-pre9 => patch-2.4.23-pre9
Get patch to get the prism54 in the kernel => 
patch-2.4.23-pre9-prism54-CVS-2003-11-07

Compiled on my Redhat 9 using the .config of the original source for 2.4.20

do the usual, make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install

Make the bzImage boot from lilo

Had to get my hotplug for PCI working with a wget 
http://prism54.org/...firmware.agent

after reboot "modprobe prism54" and it then rocks in Uganda .. where is 
am :)

Still wonder why reboot does not find it by itself
Still wonder why iwspy crashes my machine
Still wonder why the warning about version 16 while version 15

Rob