[Prism54-users] New wireless woes thread

Elimar Riesebieter riesebie@lxtec.de
Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:32:51 +0100


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On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 the mental interface of=20
Damon L. Chesser told:

> Thank you to all who responded to me previous post, you have put me on=20
> the right track when I did not have a clue.  This new post reflects=20
> changes that make the previous post irrelevant and gives a fresh start=20
> to any (like me) who might be following it.  This is the first time I=20
> have dived deep into things like modprob and kernel drivers, so I=20
> apologize in advance for any stupid questions.
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> I recompiled the kernel and used option 2 for the divers (compile them=20
> against the kernel, not into the kernel) as opposed to staticly linking=
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> them.  Now I still get no activity light on my pcmcia SMC2835W card.  I=
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> am running Libranet 2.8.1 linux with a 2.4.25 kernel
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> 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
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> Partial output of lspci:
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890=20
> (rev 01)
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> Partial output from lsmod:
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>    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]
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> Tail /var/log/messages
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> # 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,=20
> device 0x3890
> Mar  3 13:25:32 DAM-LTLN kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 00=
02)
> Mar  3 13:25:33 DAM-LTLN pci.agent[14822]: missing kernel or user mode=20
> driver prism54

Which distro?

Ciao

Elimar

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