[Prism54-users] Need help

karl wettin kalle at snigel.dnsalias.net
Mon Jul 12 06:06:56 UTC 2004 

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:50:02 -0500
Bob Farmer <brf at bfarmer.net> wrote:

> Try looking at "ifconfig" and "iwconfig" to see if it actually detected 
> your card.
> 
> Firmware doesn't get loaded until you bring the interface up, ie 
> "ifconfig ethX up"...those messages will appear at that point.

I'm afraid I can't bring up my card. It's never detected?

root at snigel kalle # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:D4:F6:5A
          inet addr:192.168.1.12  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2873 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:607335 (593.1 Kb)  TX bytes:306710 (299.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xcc00
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:14732 (14.3 Kb)  TX bytes:14732 (14.3 Kb)


root at snigel kalle # ifconfig eth1 up
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
root at snigel kalle # ifconfig eth2 up
eth2: unknown interface: No such device
root at snigel kalle # ifconfig eth3 up
eth3: unknown interface: No such device

root at snigel kalle # iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
lo        no wireless extensions.
 
shaper0   no wireless extensions.
 

root at snigel kalle # iwconfig ath0
ath0      No such device
 
root at snigel kalle # iwconfig ath1
ath1      No such device
 
root at snigel kalle # iwconfig ath2
ath2      No such device
 
root at snigel kalle # iwconfig eth1
eth1      No such device
 
root at snigel kalle # iwconfig eth2
eth2      No such device


> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> karl wettin wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I can't seem to get my DLink DWL-G650 PCI-card to work on my Gentoo-box.
> > It is never initialized and no firmware is sent to the card.
> > 
> > Any hints in the right direction are welcome. Here is some output:
> > 
> > lspci:
> > 
> >>>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
> >>>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
> >>>00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> >>>00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> >>>00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> >>>00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> >>>00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT [Mach64 VT] (rev 40)
> >>>00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
> >>>00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
> >>>00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01)
> >>>00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
> > 
> >                                                ^^^^^^^^^ this is my DWL-G650
> > 
> >>>00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
> >>>00:13.1 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 01)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On modprobe prism54:
> > 
> >>>Jul 12 06:53:12 localhost kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.1
> > 
> > 
> > And then nothing more. It never detects my DWL-G650?
> > 
> > Hotplug is installed:
> > 
> >>>root at snigel linux # emerge -s hotplug
> >>>Searching...
> >>>[ Results for search key : hotplug ]
> >>>[ Applications found : 2 ]
> >>> 
> >>>*  sys-apps/hotplug
> >>>      Latest version available: 20040401
> >>>      Latest version installed: 20040401
> >>>      Size of downloaded files: 40 kB
> >>>      Homepage:    http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
> >>>      Description: USB and PCI hotplug scripts
> >>>      License:     GPL-2
> >>> 
> >>>*  sys-apps/hotplug-base
> >>>      Latest version available: 20040401
> >>>      Latest version installed: 20040401
> >>>      Size of downloaded files: 40 kB
> >>>      Homepage:    http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
> >>>      Description: Base Hotplug framework
> >>>      License:     GPL-2
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>>root at snigel linux # hotplug
> >>>Usage: /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug AgentName [AgentArguments]
> >>>AgentName values on this system:  dasd firmware ieee1394 input net pci scsi tape usb
> > 
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/hotplug is started.
> > 
> > I do have the firmware, but since the card doesn't seem to be found, it
> > is never loaded:
> > 
> >>>root at snigel linux # ls -al /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> >>>total 93
> >>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           72 2004-07-12 04:55 .
> >>>drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           72 2004-07-12 04:42 ..
> >>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        93996 2004-07-12 04:43 isl3890
> > 
> > 
> > Some kernel config:
> > 
> >>>root at snigel linux # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_HOTPLUG
> >>>CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
> >>>CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI=y
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_FAKE is not set
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ is not set
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_IBM is not set
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI is not set
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_CPCI is not set
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE is not set
> >>># CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC is not set
> > 
> > 
> >>>root at snigel kalle # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_STANDALONE
> >>># CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
> > 
> > 
> >>>root at snigel kalle # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_FW_LOADER
> >>>CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
> > 
> > 
> >>>root at snigel kalle # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_NET_RADIO
> >>>CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 


-- 

  kalle

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