[Prism54-users] SMC2802 and Mandrake 10.0 beta2

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

Don't just `dmesg | grep eth0` since this will just give you eth0
messages. 

Do:

ifconfig eth0 down
rmmod prism54
depmod -a
dmesg -c > /dev/null
modprobe prism54
ifconfig eth0 up
dmesg -c 

	Luis

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:54:43AM +0100, Francisco Alcaraz wrote:
> I am close to the solution, now installed in a partition (hdb13) mandrake 10.0 
> beta 2 with the 2.6-2rc2 kernel that includes prism54 modules. Loaded 
> firmware (isl3980) in the appropriate directory. Harddrake recognize the 
> wireless card but can't configure the net.
> I attach some of the results:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 up: results of dmesg |grep eth0:
> eth0: loading firmware early at probe time as temporary workaround for broken 
> device driver
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> eth0: prism54_mib_init()
> 
> Results of lsmod:
> Module                  Size  Used by
> prism54                61016  0
> firmware_class          8576  1 prism54
> isofs                  33912  0
> zlib_inflate           22656  1 isofs
> sd_mod                 16672  0
> sg                     37528  0
> intel-agp              17372  1
> agpgart                31080  2 intel-agp
> nvidia               2068232  12
> md5                     3872  1
> ipv6                  233664  8
> es1371                 33280  0
> soundcore               9248  1 es1371
> gameport                4480  1 es1371
> ac97_codec             17804  1 es1371
> af_packet              20552  3
> sr_mod                 16964  0
> floppy                 59348  0
> nls_iso8859-15          4480  2
> nls_cp850               4736  2
> vfat                   13760  2
> fat                    45120  1 vfat
> supermount             37876  2
> ide-scsi               14180  0
> scsi_mod              114712  4 sd_mod,sg,sr_mod,ide-scsi
> ide-cd                 39972  0
> cdrom                  37056  2 sr_mod,ide-cd
> uhci-hcd               29584  0
> usbcore                99324  3 uhci-hcd
> rtc                    11576  0
> ext3                  110984  1
> jbd                    54680  1 ext3
> 
> 
> Results of iwconfig:
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> eth0      PRISM Duette/GT
>           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
> 
> 
> results of "service network restart" and after that "dmesg |grep etho":
> eth0: prism54_mib_init()
> eth0: islpci_close ()
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
> 
> 
> The card's leds never light. Any idea?
> 
> Thanks so much in advance
> 
> -- 
> Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
> Departamento de Biolog?a Vegetal
> Universidad de Murcia
> Murcia (Spain)
> 
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