[Prism54-users] Everything seems to be working ... except no wireless!

[Collin Starkweather]

I have been trying to get wireless (802.11g) working via a D-Link
AirPlus DWL-G650 a.k.a. AirPlus Extreme G (CardBus) on a Dell Inspiron
4150 and am just about out of ideas.  

The card is specifically mentioned in the kernel config in 

  Device Drivers ---> 
    Networking Support ---> 
      Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) ---> 
        Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/PCMCIA

so I figure someone has got it working.

Here is what I know (lots of good details / proof below my sig):

0) pcmcia-cs is installed
1) hotplug and pcmcia are running
2) The prism54 and firmware_class modules 
   are installed (and listed with lsmod)
3) The firmware is in place
4) lspci seems to think there is a card (or something) there

When I insert/remove my D-Link AirPlus, however, I don't even get the
two beeps from cardmgr.  And yes, in case you're wondering, sound is
working just fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Collin

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Collin Starkweather, Ph.D.  collin.starkweather@collinstarkweather.com
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I restart pcmcia just to make sure:

  freak root # /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
   * Stopping pcmcia...                          [ ok ]
   * 'modprobe yenta_socket' failed
   * Trying alternative PCIC driver: yenta_socket
   * Starting pcmcia...
  cardmgr[6815]: watching 2 sockets             [ ok ]
  freak root #

I restart hotplug just to make sure:

  freak root # /etc/init.d/hotplug restart
   * Stopping USB and PCI hotplugging...         [ ok ] 
   * Starting USB and PCI hotplugging...         [ ok ]
  freak root #

I installed the prism54 module and have pcmcia working through the
yenta_socket module (presumably the above modprobe message arose because
the yenta_socket module was already installed):

  freak root # lsmod
  Module                  Size  Used by
  prism54                44184  0
  firmware_class          6528  1 prism54
  ... blah blah blah ...
  yenta_socket           13952  1
  freak root #

I have the firmware in place:

  freak root # ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
  total 96
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        93996 Mar  2 12:59 isl3890
  freak root #

lspci seems to think the card is there (though I don't know why it call
it an "Unknown device"):

  freak root # lspci
  ... blah blah blah ...
  02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
  02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
  07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown
device 0013 (rev 01)
  freak root #

Here are some messages I found in /var/log/messages that I don't quite
know what to make of but which may seem relevant:

  Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cardmgr[6566]: watching 2 sockets
  Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
  Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding
0x800-0x817 0x828-0x837 0x840-0x84f 0x860-0x877 0x880-0x88f 0x898-0x89f
0x8a8-0x8cf 0x8e0-0x8ff
  Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
0x378-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
  Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
  Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cardmgr[6566]: starting, version is 3.2.5