[Prism54-users] eth0: device soft reset timed out

[Diego Chantrain]

David,

Thank you for your prompt reply. There is no urgency for me in getting
the card to work: I have an ethernet card which works very well for me
(this is after all a desktop computer). I'll check from time to time to
see if there is anything new on the web page...

Thanks

Diego


On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 20:00, David Martinez wrote:
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> Diego Chantrain wrote:
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> |
> | I am having trouble with the wireless card of my hp pavilion k.580.
> |  lspci shows: this:
> 
> Hi diego, you have more or less the same computer as me. And I'm
> afraid your computer has the same card as mine.
> 
> I have bad news for you, your card uses an incompatible new firmware
> file and has several differences from the supported one. It is
> addressed (Please devs corrige me!!) to start developping a new port
> of code as soon as connexant send the specs.
> 
> Me, in parallel to the group, i've been trying to hack the card to
> make it work. I've got some interesting results (my card inits and is
> able to init the buffers too) but it is still so much work to do. but
> I'm doing my last college exams and i haven't advanced a lot in the
> last month (sorry).
> 
> Nevertheless, I'am afraid that, even if I'm ever able to make it work,
> I don't really know if we will be allowed to publish a driver
> developped mostly with reverse engineering techniques :(
> 
> I hope my work could be useful to the group and not a total waste of
> time :p
> When i finish my exams i'll continue my work and i'll keep you informed.
> 
> Bye.
> 
> (sorry for my english, one year in france has easily killed my english
> written performances ;))
> 
> | 0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil
> | ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
> |
> | The card does not seem to start up, as shown in this exerpt from my
> |  dmesg:
> |
> | Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device
> | 0000:02:03.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1d.1
> |
> 
> 
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