[Prism54-users] NOT READY-issue

[Mike Gabriel]

hi sudha,

i am not so deeply into kernel and hotplug, but to my knowledge, plugging in 
the prism54 card (a presume you have a cardbus-WLANNIC) calls /sbin/hotplug 
and hotplug will load the prism54 driver and consequently manages the 
firmware upload to the card (this might also be the other way round)... but i 
think the developers on this list can provide you deeper information...

sorry,
mike

> hi Mike,
>           now i have changed the kernel version to 2.4.24...but still i get
>           the same problem as mentioned earlier.....I feel that there is  a
>           problem with the hotplug support....can u explain to me as to
>           how  the firmware gets uploaded...and the function of the hotplug
>           support......It would be helpful if u provide me with the reply at
>           the earliest....     
> regards
> sudha .

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 21:40, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> 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...
> >
> >  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
> >
> >  Can any body figure out the problem...Any help is appreciated...
> >
> > sudha
> >
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