firmware is not uploaded

Hi. I have a problem with the prism54 driver. I am running Debian,
kernel 2.6.5, hotplug snapshot 20040329 (the latest one, I think). The
driver I use is the one given by the kernel tree.

When I insert the my 3COM 3CRWE154G7, I got the following in the log file:

Apr 23 21:05:31 trinity pci.agent[2737]:      prism54: loaded sucessfully
Apr 23 21:05:31 trinity net.agent[2760]: iface eth1 is not marked as 'auto'
Apr 23 21:05:31 trinity kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.1
Apr 23 21:05:31 trinity kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 
-> 0002)
Apr 23 21:05:31 trinity kernel: eth1: prism54 driver detected card 
model: 3COM 3CRWE154G72

Then, when I execute "ifconfig eth1 up" the response is "SIOCSIFFLAGS:
No such file or directory". In the log there are the following lines:

Apr 23 21:06:46 trinity kernel: eth1: islpci_open()
Apr 23 21:06:46 trinity kernel: eth1: resetting device...
Apr 23 21:06:46 trinity kernel: eth1: uploading firmware...

and nothing more. I do have a firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware,
and it is named isl3890.arm.

iwconfig returns:

eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
          Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The following modules, related to the card, are loaded:

Module                  Size  Used by
prism54                50776  0
firmware_class         10016  1 prism54
ds                     18436  2
yenta_socket           17440  1
pcmcia_core            68004  2 ds,yenta_socket
pci_hotplug            36272  0

Any idea why this happens?

Thanks,

Halva

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