[Prism54-users] NOT READY-issue

[Mike Gabriel]

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hi sudha,

right yesterday i have encountered the same phenomenon with a 2.6.10-kanotix-8 
kernel. in that case the kernel did not bother to upload the firmware to the 
card. so you might check against that first of all. (in SYSLOG).

the kernel needs firmware_class support and with older kernels (e.g. 2.4.19 -> 
BTW: until 2.4.24 (i think) there was a major root-exploit problem in the 
2.4kernel, so you should better upgrade to a latest kernel anyway) it needed 
to be compiled as a module (i am by myself astonished that the kanotix kernel 
is lacking the firmware_class.ko module and my prism54 still works. however, 
there must have been a change in firmware upload recently...)

hope, that helps...
mike

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 09:10, sudha.ramachandra at wipro.com wrote:
> hello all,
>            i compiled the driver with 2.4.19 version of linux kernel...i
> was also able to insmod prism54.o....when i gave the command iwconfig eth0
> this is what the output i get...
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>  eth0    NOT READY!   ESSID:"test"
>           Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensivity=0/200
>           Retryminlimit=0 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-0dBm  Noise level=-0 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
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>  Can any body figure out the problem...Any help is appreciated...
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