[Prism54-users] Problem with 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g PC Card (3CRWE154G72) VER 2.0

[Eric "Shubes"]

Jonathan W wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first post here so bare with me :)
> 
> 
> Anyway I have some problems with getting my 3Com Wireless PC Card
> working with the 1.2 prism54 driver using kernel 2.6.8.1 with firmware
> 1.0.4.3.arm (I have tried all of them, problem remains the same).
> According to your page http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php it looks
> like my card should be supported. After some research it seems that the
> card you are referring to as being supported with your driver is version
> 1.0 of my card. I really have no idea what the problem maybe but it's
> there and it is really annoying.
> Anyway now to the problem. The card gets detected perfectley at boot by
> the prism54 driver. But whenever I try to bring the card up with:
> 
> ifconfig eth1 up
> 
> I get this in my dmesg:
> 
> 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, triggering device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
> eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering 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
> 
> And after that you can't do anything with the card because you get a lot
> of input/output errors.
> 
> This is what lspci -v -n of the card looks like:
> 
> 06:00.0 Class 0280: 10b7:6001 (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: a727:6001
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 10
>         Memory at 11000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 
> 
> And thats where I am right now, perhaps some of you dev-gurus out there
> could hack up a patch? That would be lovely :)
> 
> Cheers 
> Jonathan W
> 
> 
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Jonathan,
Yes, it's annoying.
See http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72
Look familiar? The 6001 device (along with others) is having a problem 
with this driver.
I'm afraid your options are either to wait for an enhancement for this 
driver (support of that chipset/card), or try another wireless card. 
Your decision will depend on your situation. Finding one that actually 
works can be frustrating. See my post at 
http://prism54.org/pipermail/prism54-users/2004-September/001666.html

"Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together."
-Red Green
-- 
-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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