Re: Everything seems to be working ... except no wireless!

As stated in multiple previous posts, it depends on the revision. The A1 model of that NIC works with prism54. The rest are atheros.

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 23:39:59 -0500
"Dave Feller" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not sure that is a PRISM card - think it is Atheros...
> 
> David Feller
> Director Prism Marketing
> Conexant
> 972-562-7379
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Collin
> Starkweather
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Prism54-users] Everything seems to be working ... except no
> wireless!
> 
> I have been trying to get wireless (802.11g) working via a D-Link
> AirPlus DWL-G650 a.k.a. AirPlus Extreme G (CardBus) on a Dell Inspiron
> 4150 and am just about out of ideas.  
> 
> The card is specifically mentioned in the kernel config in 
> 
>   Device Drivers ---> 
>     Networking Support ---> 
>       Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) ---> 
>         Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/PCMCIA
> 
> so I figure someone has got it working.
> 
> Here is what I know (lots of good details / proof below my sig):
> 
> 0) pcmcia-cs is installed
> 1) hotplug and pcmcia are running
> 2) The prism54 and firmware_class modules 
>    are installed (and listed with lsmod)
> 3) The firmware is in place
> 4) lspci seems to think there is a card (or something) there
> 
> When I insert/remove my D-Link AirPlus, however, I don't even get the
> two beeps from cardmgr.  And yes, in case you're wondering, sound is
> working just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Collin
> 
> -- 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Collin Starkweather, Ph.D.  [email protected]
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> I restart pcmcia just to make sure:
> 
>   freak root # /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
>    * Stopping pcmcia...                          [ ok ]
>    * 'modprobe yenta_socket' failed
>    * Trying alternative PCIC driver: yenta_socket
>    * Starting pcmcia...
>   cardmgr[6815]: watching 2 sockets             [ ok ]
>   freak root #
> 
> I restart hotplug just to make sure:
> 
>   freak root # /etc/init.d/hotplug restart
>    * Stopping USB and PCI hotplugging...         [ ok ] 
>    * Starting USB and PCI hotplugging...         [ ok ]
>   freak root #
> 
> I installed the prism54 module and have pcmcia working through the
> yenta_socket module (presumably the above modprobe message arose because
> the yenta_socket module was already installed):
> 
>   freak root # lsmod
>   Module                  Size  Used by
>   prism54                44184  0
>   firmware_class          6528  1 prism54
>   ... blah blah blah ...
>   yenta_socket           13952  1
>   freak root #
> 
> I have the firmware in place:
> 
>   freak root # ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
>   total 96
>   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        93996 Mar  2 12:59 isl3890
>   freak root #
> 
> lspci seems to think the card is there (though I don't know why it call
> it an "Unknown device"):
> 
>   freak root # lspci
>   ... blah blah blah ...
>   02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
>   02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
>   07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown
> device 0013 (rev 01)
>   freak root #
> 
> Here are some messages I found in /var/log/messages that I don't quite
> know what to make of but which may seem relevant:
> 
>   Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cardmgr[6566]: watching 2 sockets
>   Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
>   Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding
> 0x800-0x817 0x828-0x837 0x840-0x84f 0x860-0x877 0x880-0x88f 0x898-0x89f
> 0x8a8-0x8cf 0x8e0-0x8ff
>   Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
> 0x378-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
>   Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
>   Mar  2 15:26:53 freak cardmgr[6566]: starting, version is 3.2.5
> 
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