[Prism54-users] Problems with a 3COM 3CRWE154G72

[Peter Leinen]

Dear all,

I try to connect my notebook running under Fedore Core, 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl via 
a Office Connect Wireless PC Card (3CWE154G72) to a wireless lan with no success.
Yes, I know the card should work as already seen on the list.

I'm not sure where the problem is. The link light blinks and also the activity light
blink from time to time but I cant see a connection on the access point.

I wonder if the module is correct loaded. Should the pcmcia_core and/or the ds module 
not be used by prism54. See the output of lsmod below.

Any other pcmcia card works fine in the slot; for example a ne2000 compatible network
adapter and some SDCards from the digital camera.

Any help welcome.
  Peter
  
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I installed the version prism54-cvs20040104 as the README tells me (alternative 2).

firmware_class is enabled and
	ksyms -a | egrep "request_firmware|release_firmware|register_firmware"
give the following output.
	c68f0960  release_firmware_R33934162        [firmware_class]
	c68f0830  request_firmware_R38ce5074        [firmware_class]
	c68f0a20  request_firmware_nowait_R5d6ba2b0  [firmware_class]
	c68f09a0  register_firmware_R711cccd3       [firmware_class]

/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug show /sbin/hotplug which is present 
and gives the list of agents as follows
	AgentName values on this system:  firmware ieee1394 net pci scsi usb

The firmware file "isl3890" is in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.

Finally the card is visible to the pci subsystem as lspci shows
	02:00.0 Network controller: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 6001 (rev 01)
        	Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 6001
        	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 11
        	Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

ifconfig shows:
	eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:54:9F:48:C6  
        	  inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
        	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
        	  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        	  TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
        	  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)
        	  Interrupt:11 

and iwconfig tells me:
	eth1      3COM 3CRWE154G72  Mode:Managed  Channel:11  
        	  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  Bit Rate:0kb/s   Sensitivity=20/200  
        	  Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 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
where the Channel change from time to time

the list of modules related to this topic:
	Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
	prism54                40524   1 
	firmware_class          6060   0  [prism54]
	ds                      8680   1 
	yenta_socket           13664   1 
	pcmcia_core            57216   0  [ds yenta_socket]

and finally some lines from syslog
	pe kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
	pe kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
	pe kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
	pe kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
	pe kernel: Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
	pe kernel: Socket status: 30000820
	pe kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x6001
	pe kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
	pe pci.agent[5517]: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/modules.pcimap
	pe cardmgr[5519]: starting, version is 3.1.31
	pe cardmgr[5519]: watching 1 sockets
	pe cardmgr[5519]: Card Services release does not match
	pe kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
	pe kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x
	pe kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
	pe cardmgr[5519]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device
	pe pci.agent[5517]: PCI slot 02:00.0
	pe kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.0.2.2
	pe kernel: divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x17000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x17000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x12000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x12000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x12000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x12000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=34) mismatch for oid=0x1200
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=34) mismatch for oid=0x1000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=6) mismatch for oid=0x10000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x13000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x13000
	pe kernel: _mgt_get_request(): data length (1!=4) mismatch for oid=0x13000
	pe kernel: eth1: islpci_open()
	pe devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
	pe kernel: eth1: resetting device...
	pe kernel: eth1: uploading firmware...
	pe kernel: firmware_class.c:call_helper: firmware: /sbin/hotplug firmware 
	pe kernel: eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
	pe kernel: eth1: prism54_mib_init()
	pe kernel: eth1: done with prism54_mib_init()! -- Client Managed mode