[Prism54-users] Yet another person with a firmware problem!

[Tim Cutts]

I've checked the archives, and haven't seen anyone with precisely this 
problem though.  First of all, here's the hardware and software setup:

Host machine:  Toshiba Libretto 100CT
Prism54 card:  3com OfficeConnect 11g

OS:			   Debian Linux
Kernel:		   2.6.8 kernel image supplied from Debian "unstable" track
hotplug:	   0.0.20040329
wireless tools:version 27
firmware:	   1.0.4.3

I've checked the usual suspects; the firmware is in the right place, 
the /sys filesystem is mounted, etc etc

The symptoms of the problem:

I insert the card, and not much happens, although dmesg does report the 
new PCI device, and iwconfig can see it (although ifconfig cannot, 
yet).

Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

iwconfig, at this stage:

eth0      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any
		  Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
		  Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
		  Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 0B   Fragment thr=0 B
		  Encryption key:off
           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0

etc.

If I now do 'ifconfig eth0 up', the following happens in dmesg:

eth0: lspci_open()
eth0: resetting device...
eth0: uploading firmware...
eth0: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...

so far so good, but now it all goes wrong:

eth0: device soft reset timed out
eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response

the last two lines are repeated three more times, and then several 
repetitions of:

eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full

and finally:

eth0: mgt_commit has failed.  Restart the device.

Anyone got any suggestions?

It occurs to me that my copy of the firmware might be corrupted.  The 
md5sum is: 8bd4310971772a486b9784c77f8a6df9

Thanks,

Tim

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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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