[Prism54-users] New wireless woes thread

[Damon L. Chesser]

Thank you to all who responded to me previous post, you have put me on 
the right track when I did not have a clue.  This new post reflects 
changes that make the previous post irrelevant and gives a fresh start 
to any (like me) who might be following it.  This is the first time I 
have dived deep into things like modprob and kernel drivers, so I 
apologize in advance for any stupid questions.

I recompiled the kernel and used option 2 for the divers (compile them 
against the kernel, not into the kernel) as opposed to staticly linking 
them.  Now I still get no activity light on my pcmcia SMC2835W card.  I 
am running Libranet 2.8.1 linux with a 2.4.25 kernel

Kernel: (just doubled check the config file)
    General setup >PCMCIA/Cardbus support>Cardbus support>modual
    CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL > yes >prompt for dev....>yes
    Library routines>Hotplug firmware loading support>yes
    Cardbus support>yes

Partial output of lspci:
02:00.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890 
(rev 01)

Partial output from lsmod:

    root@DAM-LTLN:/tmp/prism54-cvs20040303# lsmod
    Module                      Size      Used by    Not tainted
    prism54                    38472   0
    firmware_class        4252   0  [prism54]
    ds                              6952   1
    yenta_socket           10912   1
    pcmcia_core            43392   0  [ds yenta_socket]

Tail /var/log/messages

# first line is card being removed, following lines reflect card insertion
Mar  3 13:25:30 DAM-LTLN kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 2)
Mar  3 13:25:32 DAM-LTLN kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x1260, 
device 0x3890
Mar  3 13:25:32 DAM-LTLN kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Mar  3 13:25:33 DAM-LTLN pci.agent[14822]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver prism54

Results of EthX up:
    #eth0 is built in NIC
root@DAM-LTLN:/tmp/prism54-cvs20040303# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:9F:0D:82:5B 
          inet addr:192.168.2.190  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:386 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:426996 (416.9 KiB)  TX bytes:54356 (53.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800

root@DAM-LTLN:/tmp/prism54-cvs20040303# ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:B4:00:00:00 
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11

root@DAM-LTLN:/tmp/prism54-cvs20040303# ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

So now what simple step did I miss?  Modules are loaded, Tail says 
prism54 is NOT loaded, lsmod says it is.






-- 
Damon L. Chesser
dchesser@bigfoot.com