[Prism54-users] New wireless woes thread

[Damon L. Chesser]

Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:05:01 -0600
>"Damon L. Chesser" <dchesser4@cox.net> wrote:
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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, 
>>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
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>You don't say at what time (i.e. insmod prism54, ifconfig ethX,..) the
>log is produced. In any case its still not able to load the prsim54
>module properly.
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>>root@DAM-LTLN:/tmp/prism54-cvs20040303# ifconfig eth1
>>eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:B4:00:00:00 
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>too many 00 in hardware address, probably bogus.
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>>root@DAM-LTLN:/tmp/prism54-cvs20040303# ifconfig eth1 up
>>SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
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>it would have been interesting to have the syslog for this action.
>Failed firmware or failed module loading/detection, ....
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--card removed
    Syslog
Mar  3 15:44:29 DAM-LTLN kernel: eth1: removing device
Mar  3 15:44:29 DAM-LTLN kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 2)

    messages
Mar  3 15:44:29 DAM-LTLN kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 2)

--card installed
    Syslog
ar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x1260, 
device 0x3890
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN kernel: eth1: prism54 driver detected card 
model: SMC2835W
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN cardmgr[546]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN pci.agent[901]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver prism54
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN pci.agent[901]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver prism54
Mar  3 15:45:54 DAM-LTLN gconfd (root-840): GConf server is not in use, 
shutting down.
Mar  3 15:45:54 DAM-LTLN gconfd (root-840): Exiting

    messages
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x1260, 
device 0x3890
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN kernel: PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN pci.agent[901]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver prism54
Mar  3 15:45:44 DAM-LTLN pci.agent[901]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver prism54
Mar  3 15:45:54 DAM-LTLN gconfd (root-840): GConf server is not in use, 
shutting down.
Mar  3 15:45:54 DAM-LTLN gconfd (root-840): Exiting

#    Note:  pci.agent[901]: missing kernel or user mode driver prism54 
:What does it mean?  It just said the driver ID'ed the device then it 
said the driver was missing?

ifconfig eth1 up
Syslog
Mar  3 15:52:26 DAM-LTLN kernel: eth1: islpci_open()
Mar  3 15:52:26 DAM-LTLN kernel: eth1: resetting device...
Mar  3 15:52:26 DAM-LTLN kernel: eth1: uploading firmware...
Mar  3 15:52:36 DAM-LTLN kernel: prism54: request_firmware() failed for 
'isl3890'
Mar  3 15:52:36 DAM-LTLN kernel: eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
messages
none

cmd line

root@DAM-LTLN:/home/user1# ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
root@DAM-LTLN:/home/user1#

Interesting, but don't know what it means:

root@DAM-LTLN:/home/user1# modprobe firmware_class
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep
root@DAM-LTLN:/home/user1#


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Damon L. Chesser
dchesser@bigfoot.com