[Prism54-users] still can't load firmware (please help)
Luis R. Rodriguez
mcgrof at ruslug.rutgers.edu
Sun Jul 4 16:10:17 UTC 2004
Franco, do you have firmware.agent file for hotplug?
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
Luis
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:26:07PM +0200, Franco wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> sorry to post this again but, despite a couple of persons
> answering me privately, the problem was not solved and
> it's three months (yeah!!! :-( ) I can't use this new
> PC I've bought.
>
> After one month of struggling I finally managed
> to purchase an SMC 2802W. Unfortunately, I don't
> manage to load the firmware. I have a Fedora Core 2 box
> (quite stock) and made a number of attempts, both with
> the stock kernel and custom kernel (2.6.7) compiled
> as per the README.html on prism54.org site.
>
> I enclose the output of various commands in order
> to clarify the problem.
>
> Please help me, I don't know what else to do.
> Franco
> --------------------------------------
>
> #> modprobe firmware_class
> #> modprobe prism54
>
> (this gives no output and lsmod shows them)
>
> #> ksyms
> ksyms: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented
>
> #> service network restart
> Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
> Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
> Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
> Bringing up interface eth0:
>
> prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
> eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
>
> Determining IP information for eth0...
> interface 'eth0' not found
> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
> SET failed on device eth0 ; Input/output error.
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> failed.
>
> Also, if I do:
>
> #> cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
>
> sometimes (depending maybe on the kernel I'm using) I get
> /sbin/hotplug
>
> and other times I get:
> /bin/true
>
> In any case,
>
> #> /sbin/hotplug
> Usage: /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug AgentName [AgentArguments]
> AgentName values on this system: dasd firmware ieee1394 input net pci scsi
> tape usb
>
> #> ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> total 192
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 91020 May 8 2003 isl3880
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 91020 May 8 2003 isl3890
>
> (Ive tried with both version 1.0.3, 1.0.4 from your site and
> also 1.0.14 (?) from my card package....
>
> My /etc/fstab contains this line:
>
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
>
> #> ls -l /sys/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 0 Jun 27 2004 block
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 Jun 26 23:13 bus
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 0 Jun 26 23:13 class
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jun 27 2004 devices
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jun 27 2004 firmware
> drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 0 Jun 26 23:13 module
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 27 2004 power
> #> ls -l /sys/firmware/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jun 27 2004 acpi
>
>
> (various file permissions)
>
> #> ls -ld /usr
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 20 01:08 /usr
> #> ls -ld /usr/lib
> drwxr-xr-x 119 root root 81920 Jun 26 00:18 /usr/lib
> #> ls -ld /usr/lib/hotplug/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 26 00:18 /usr/lib/hotplug/
> #> ls -ld /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 01:12 /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> #> ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 91020 May 8 2003 isl3880
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 91020 May 8 2003 isl3890
>
>
> #> lspci
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)
> 00:0a.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
> 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
> 00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
> 00:13.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
> 00:13.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a4)
>
> #> lspci -v
>
> 00:0a.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC]: Unknown device 2802
> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
> Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>
>
>
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER
>
> is 'y' or 'm' in every .config
>
>
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