[Prism54-users] New SMC2802W ?
Luis R. Rodriguez
mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:55:57 -0500 (EST)
first,
ifconfig eth1 up
before anything. Try that after modprobing and just watch the led until it
starts associating to the AP. Then if you run iwconfig you should see the
AP's SSID.
Luis
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Louis SWINNEN wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I've bought a SMC 2802W cards and I've several problems to
> configure it under Linux RedHat 9 with Prism54 driver.
>
> First, this card reports a new subsystem ID when I do a lspci -vvvn
> 00:08.0 Class 0280: 1260:3890 (rev 01)
> Subsystem: 1113:ee03
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 80 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), cache line size 08
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
> Region 0: Memory at dfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
>
> I'm using linux kernel 2.4.23 with the lastest prism driver 1.0.2.2, latest firmware and cvs
> version 12/01/2004 and it doesn't work. I've test several driver and firmware but ... nothing :-(
>
> Here is what I'm doing:
>
> modprobe prism54
> iwconfig eth1 mode master
> iwconfig eth1 essid "test-net"
> ifconfig eth1 192.168.25.1 up
>
> But I'm not able to send any packet ...
>
> OUTPUT OF iwconfig
> - -------------------
> [root@test root]# iwconfig eth1
> Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
> of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:"test-net"
> Mode:Master Channel:6 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Tx-Power=0 dBm Sensitivity=0/0
> 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
>
> OUTPUT OF ifconfig .... *(see the HWaddr ???)*
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>
> [root@test root]# ifconfig eth1
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> inet addr:192.168.25.1 Bcast:192.168.25.255 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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc000
>
> [root@test root]#
>
> This cards works under Windows and with DriverLoader (but it doesn't
> support master mode) so the hardware is good. The main chip on the
> card is ISL 3886PIK
>
> No error message on /var/log/messages & dmesg. I've disabled
> ACPI/APIC/APM/PnP OS in my BIOS. Any idea ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Louis.
>
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