[Prism54-users] Timeouts with SMC EZconnect

[John and Kathy]

I have an SMC EZconnect (SMC2802W-CA) and after a lot of debugging still
have these issues:

Debian 3.0 with 2.4.22 kernel and 2.4.23-pre9 and CVS-1102 patches

Wireless tools from a Debian version 23-2 package

133MHz 48MB Acer desktop, PCI card

-- firmware downloads OK, the light on the card does 8 slow blinks upon
modprobe prism54
   (moving the firmware file makes firmware error messages)

-- can ifconfig -a and see the MAC address of the card

-- can ifconfig the card and try pinging something, but eventually get
timeouts on the transmits

-- iwlist eth1 ap   says no access points

   all other iwlist commands time out (the command output says unsupported
and
the kernel messages show numerous jiffies countdowns).

   The command "iwlist eth1 ap" seems to run normally with to and fro
between the driver and the card as shown in the kernel debug output

-- cannot iwconfig anything, get more jiffies countdowns

Typical kernel output is

 Mgmt Tx Qs: Free [15] shdw [9]
  (jiffies countdown)
 Mgmt Rx Qs: f[20] s[4] i[0] t[0] p[0]

-- Typical load is

  # modprobe prism54 eth1 pc_debug=15 channel=6

I'm running out of ideas and things to change---any help would be greatly
appreciated!


--John