[Prism54-users] Need Help With Linksys WMP54G PCI Card

[Werner Kuballa]

I have successfully installed prism54 on my laptop using a Netgear
WG511.  I used the linux-2.4.25-prism54-1.0.2.2 patch, compiled a new
kernel and everything works just fine, including ap-mode and using
kismet.

Now I got a Linksys WMP54G PCI card for my desktop and would like to
use the prism54 driver.  Somebody reported in the prism54 user group
("david" on 10-Nov-03) that he has got this card up and running, but I
don't know how.  

I was trying to use again the patched 2.4.25-prism54 kernel.  The
desktop has no PCMCIA and if I don't select "CONFIG_PCMCIA=y", I don't
even get a chance to select "CONFIG_PRISM54=m".  I have tried setting
"CONFIG_PCMCIA=y", "CONFIG_CARDBUS=y", "CONFIG_PRISM54=M" but this does
not help.  Below you can see the error messages when trying to load
prism54.  

Maybe it's a stupid question, but I ask it anyway:  Are plain PCI cards
like the WMP54G supported at all?  And how do you configure the system
if it has no PCMCIA support?

Any advice is appreciated.

Regards,
Werner


# lspci -v -v -v -s 2:2.0
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320
(rev 03)
        Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0014
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at ff8fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=8K]

# modprobe prism54
/lib/modules/2.4.25-WK-0405A/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o:
init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.25-WK-0405A/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o:
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/2.4.25-WK-0405A/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o:
insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.25-WK-0405A/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.25-WK-0405A/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o:
insmod prism54 failed
prism54-users@prism54.org.