[Prism54-users] Netgear WG511 problems

[Eric "Shubes"]

Wedge_ wrote:
> I've spent about 6 hours today on this (so far), so as you can imagine
> I'm not very happy right now.
> I bought this card because it seemed to be extremely well supported
> under Linux, so I wasn't 
> anticipating any trouble. However, the only way I can get it to work is
> using Linuxants DriverLoader
> and the Windows driver. 
> 
> What I've done so far:
> - configured the kernel according to the README on prism54.org
> - loaded the necessary modules (also tried compiling everything in)
> - tried configuring interface with scripts and manually with iwconfig
> - tried a couple of different kernel versions (2.6.8.1-ck3 and vanilla
> 2.6.7)
> - various suggestions found on Google
> 
> I'm not getting anywhere at all, so hopefully someone can tell me what's
> happening. The following
> is my dmesg output, starting with the card being removed and inserted.
> It appears to load the firmware 
> correctly at least, but after that I have no idea what it's doing:
> 
> Assuming someone else called the IRQ
> eth1: hot unplug detected
> eth1: removing device
> eth1: islpci_close ()
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: Netgear WG511
> eth1: islpci_open()
> eth1: resetting device...
> eth1: uploading firmware...
> eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
> eth1: device soft reset timed out
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device 
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: prism54_set_txpower() auto power will be implemented later.
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device 
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: islpci_close ()
> eth1: islpci_open()
> eth1: resetting device...
> eth1: uploading firmware...
> eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
> eth1: device soft reset timed out
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> eth1: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device 
> eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
> 
> The card works fine in Windows, and works in Linux with the Windows
> drivers. Distro is Gentoo. If
> any other information would be helpful please let me know.
> 
I seem to have the same problem at this point (fixed 2 other FC2 related 
errors yesterday). I've got the prism54 (isl3890) chipset on a smc2802w 
pci card. I don't get some of the messages you do, but I'm guessing 
that's because you're pcmcia and I'm pci. I think the critical point of 
failure (first error message) is the "soft reset timed out". What's 
curious (odd) to me is that when looking at the syslog in real time 
(tail -f) the message occurs very quickly (seems immediate). I've tried 
kernels 2.6.5 and 2.6.8 (stock, from RH) so far.

As Red Green would say, "remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in 
this together". Hopefully we'll post the solution here when we find it.


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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