Re: ECS Desknote A907, Suse 8.2Pro & Linksys WUSB11 2.6

Joerg Albert <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Oct 2003 02:36:20 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.atmel-wlan
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Frank,

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Frank Schlotfeldt wrote:

> I have a problem getting my Linksys WUSB11 working with Suse 8.2 Pro. I have
> read the tutorials mentioned in this list, but nothing worked for me.
>
> After plugging the WUSB11 into my Desknote I get these messages:
> ...
>
> Output of /var/log/messages
>
>  Oct 12 13:02:42 dhcppc0 /etc/hotplug/net.agent[2000]: Using HW description
> eth-usb-1-2
>  Oct 12 13:02:43 dhcppc0 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:14.0-4, assigned
>  address 3
>  Oct 12 13:02:43 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: get_op_mode() failed: -32
>  Oct 12 13:02:43 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: downloading firmware
>  Oct 12 13:02:43 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: remap
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: resetting device
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: scanning unclaimed devices
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: op_mode = 4
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: usbdfu.c: firmware already loaded
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: at76c503.c: downloading external firmware
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: at76c503.c: firmware version 0.100.4 #16
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: at76c503.c: using MAC 00:06:25:48:49:5f
>  Oct 12 13:02:45 dhcppc0 kernel: at76c503.c: using net device eth1
>  Oct 12 13:02:48 dhcppc0 /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2164]: writing usb-1-3 to
>  /var/run/hotplug/net
>  Oct 12 13:02:49 dhcppc0 /etc/hotplug/net.agent[2154]: Using HW description
>  eth-usb-1-3
>  Oct 12 13:02:49 dhcppc0 ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig eth1 nick dhcppc0'
>  returned
>  Oct 12 13:02:49 dhcppc0 ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set
>  Nickname" (8B1C) :
>  Oct 12 13:02:49 dhcppc0 ifup-wireless: SET failed on device eth1 ;
>  Operation not supported.
>  Oct 12 13:03:01 dhcppc0 kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present
>
> The ECS Desknote A907 runs on a Transmeta CPU with an ALI 1535+ Chipset.
>
> For my knowledge I am out of options and I hope that anyone can help me out.

The "set nickname" bug is a minor one in the Berlios driver and fixed in
the cvs tarball. Apart from this, what's your problem?

SuSE 8.2 comes with the old version 0.8, please update to 0.10 or the cvs
tarball following the links at http://at76c503a.berlios.de/

/Jörg