[Prism54-users] Can't make a SMC2802W work. Maybe it's my hardware setup? Doing something wrong?

[Milan Zimmermann]

Hi,

This note will not help you but I have a similar problem with the same card 
(PCI SMC2802W)  on SuSE 8.2. I built kernel 2.4.23, build prism54 as module 
but failing to load the  firmware, although mine seems to fail earlier in the 
firmware load. Please let me know if you have any luck, it will give me some 
encouragement :-) as I exhausted all I can think of,

Thanks, Milan

On January 13, 2004 09:19 pm, bapm wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I just tryied the latest CVS version from today and I can't make my
> SMC2802W PCI work in my linux box.
>
> I'm using kernel 2.4.24 with the CVS patch from today. I didn't forget to
> have modules for prism and hot plug firmware. I also installed the hotplug
> firmware agent. Firmware is the latest available on prism54.org (1.0.4.3).
> After doing a modprobe prism54 I get this dmesg:
>
>   Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.0.2.2
>   divert: allocating divert_blk for eth3
>   eth3: islpci_open()
>   eth3: resetting device...
>   eth3: uploading firmware...
>   remove_proc_entry: 00:09.0/loading busy, count=1
>   remove_proc_entry: firmware/00:09.0 busy, count=1
>   eth3: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
>   de_put: deferred delete of loading
>   de_put: deferred delete of 00:09.0
>   eth3: device soft reset timed out
>
> Check iwconfig output:
>
>   eth3      NOT READY!  ESSID:""
>             Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>             Tx-Power=0 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
>
> Trying another reset with iwpriv also doesn't work. Using all the available
> firmwares didn't help either. The card refuses to colaborate. Output of
> /proc/interrupts after several tests. IRQ number doesn't change:
>
>              CPU0
>     0:      55476          XT-PIC  timer
>     1:          2          XT-PIC  keyboard
>     2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>     8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>    10:          0          XT-PIC  eth3
>    11:         44          XT-PIC  eth2
>    12:       2723          XT-PIC  eth0, eth1
>    14:       7473          XT-PIC  ide0
>    15:         64          XT-PIC  ide1
>   NMI:          0
>   ERR:          0
>
> Maybe the problem is my hardware setup? Firmware doesn't load properlly for
> some reason?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bruno
>
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