[Prism54-users] Re: Prism54-users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 15

[Ignacius Szabó]

I know that problem, mostly it dissappears after a rmmod modprobe off the
driver, if this doesnt helkp try an older verion or newer.
I do not what causes the problem.
I get it myself by loading the hardware denylist every minute with iwpriv.

I hope it helps.

Ignácius

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>    1. SMC2802W (James Green)
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> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:31:51 +0100
> From: James Green <jimbo.green at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Prism54-users] SMC2802W
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> Hiya.
>
> This week, I bought an SMC2802W PCI wireless card, which claims to
> support 802.11b and 802.11g. It looks like this, in lspci:
>
> 0000:00:0f.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890
> [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
>
> So I reckon that makes it a prism54 supported card, which sounds like
> a good thing to me. Currently, I've tried the following to configure
> it:
>
> 1) I downloaded the firmware from
> http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/1.0.4.3.arm and saved it as
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890
>
> 2) Put the following in /etc/network/interfaces -
> iface eth1 inet static
>         address 192.168.0.17
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         gateway 192.168.0.1
>         wireless_essid jnet
>         wireless_mode managed
>         wireless_key 686C6167686C616768484F4E4B
>
> (I figure the risk of giving my key out on mailing lists is low, given
> my location)
>
> 3) tried various repetitions of "ifconfig eth1 up" and "ifconfig eth1
> down". When I put the interface up, lines appear in 'dmesg' , which I
> have put online at http://www.jimbo.org.uk/junk/prism54.txt
>
> 4) After an ifconfig eth1 down, iwconfig reports the following:
>
> eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
>           Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> 5) After an ifconfig eth1 up, iwconfig reports the following:
>
> eth1      no wireless extensions.
>
> My question, then, is this: what am I not doing in steps 1 and 2, and
> how worried should I be about the messages in each of 3, 4 and 5? For
> what it's worth, I'm running debian "sarge", and the stock debian
> 2.6.7 kernel image.
>
> Modules loaded into the kernel are listed at
> http://www.jimbo.org.uk/junk/modules.txt
>
> Any ideas where I'm going wrong would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
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