[Prism54-users] Can't get 3Com OfficeConnect card working.

[Marijn Deé]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my OfficeConnect Wireless 11g PC Card (3CRWE154G72) to work 
with the prism54 driver on an ASUS 2530D Notebook.

My kernel verion:
Linux mees 2.4.23-pre9 #2 Fri Nov 7 19:37:00 CET 2003 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 
4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I compiled the drivers from today's snapshots.

I have the pcimcia-cs stuff compiled and cardmgr is running.
I also copied the firmware.agent to /etc/hotplug and downloaded the firmware 
file:

marijn@mees marijn $ ls -la /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root        93996 Nov  5 23:29 /usr/lib/hotplug/
firmware/isl3890

When I enter "modprobe prism54" I get:
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including 
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o: 
insmod /lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o 
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o: insmod 
prism54 failed

dmesg:
Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.0.2.2
latency timer: 0
DMA Memory support mask is 0xffffffff
prism54: pci_set_master(pdev)
PCI Memory remapped to 0x00000000
islpci_alloc_memory
islpci_statistics
eth1: resetting device...
eth1: uploading firmware...
isl38xx_upload_firmware(0xde8df000, 0x1be40000)
prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
islpci_statistics
prism54: No devices found, driver not installed.

It seems that firmware.agent crashes. I always get an Oops sooner or later 
after I tried to modprobe prism54. Sometimes in firmware.agent, but usually 
in an other process much later.

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Marijn