[Prism54-users] Netgear WG311 Installation

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

I'll fix the db. Perfect is tons of people have reported great success and
are quite happy. Supported means it just has worked.

Give us your lspci -v -v -v -n output for your netgear WG311.

=09Luis

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Kasper Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> are you (or anybody else) sure that the Netgear WG311 card is supported
> by the prism54 driver?
> I have read that it has a Atheros chipset (look around for the madwifi
> project).
>
> BTW:  Can somwone clean up the 'supported cards' database? There are
> i.e. multiple entries for the netgear WG511 card.
> I also would like to know what the difference is between 'supported' and
> 'perfect'.
>
> Kasper
>
> m0bius wrote:
>
> >So it seems that this is not going to be an easy day...
> >
> >I've searched at the supported cards list and Netgear WG311 802.11g PCI =
is
> >considered supported (has 6 successful installations). However I cannot =
seem
> >to get this thing to work...
> >
> >Let's start:
> >
> >I am using Slackware 9.1 with kernel 2.6.1. I've installed the prism mod=
ule
> >by patching up the kernel. I've installed the firmware to the directory
> >specified and added as well the firmware.agent. I have hotplug firmware
> >installed as a kernel module (firmware_class.ko). So it seems that
> >everything is set up from this side. I've also have created a sysfs moun=
t
> >point mounted at /sys
> >
> >So I do something like:
> >Shell> modprobe firmware_class
> >Shell> modprobe prism54
> >
> >The output I get by loading the module is:
> >Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.0.2.2
> >
> >But from that moment on nothing. I've looked into /sys/class/firmware/ b=
ut
> >there is no entry like the register_firmware() has not been called at al=
l.
> >
> >I've even tried changing the VERBOSE define on islpci_mgt.h but there ar=
e no
> >outputs at all.
> >
> >Here's the output from lspci -vvv:
> >
> >00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
> >        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4900
> >        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParE=
rr-
> >Step
> >ping- SERR- FastB2B-
> >        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=3Dmedium >TAbor=
t-
> ><TAbort
> >- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >        Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), cache line size 08
> >        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> >        Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D=
64K]
> >        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> >                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=3D0mA
> >PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot
> >-,D3cold-)
> >                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=3D0 DScale=3D2 PME-
> >
> >I would really need some help...
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Paris
> >
> >
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