Re: Netgear WG511 problems

Wedge_ wrote:

>>>I've spent about 6 hours today on this (so far), so as you can imagine
>>>I'm not very happy right now.
>>>I bought this card because it seemed to be extremely well supported
>>>under Linux, so I wasn't 
>>>anticipating any trouble. However, the only way I can get it to work is
>>>using Linuxants DriverLoader
>>>and the Windows driver. 
>>>
>>>What I've done so far:
>>>- configured the kernel according to the README on prism54.org
>>>- loaded the necessary modules (also tried compiling everything in)
>>>- tried configuring interface with scripts and manually with iwconfig
>>>- tried a couple of different kernel versions (2.6.8.1-ck3 and vanilla
>>>2.6.7)
>>>- various suggestions found on Google
>>>
>>>I'm not getting anywhere at all, so hopefully someone can tell me what's
>>>happening. The following
>>>is my dmesg output, starting with the card being removed and inserted.
>>>It appears to load the firmware 
>>>correctly at least, but after that I have no idea what it's doing:
>>>
>>>Assuming someone else called the IRQ
>>>eth1: hot unplug detected
>>>eth1: removing device
>>>eth1: islpci_close ()
>>>PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
>>>eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: Netgear WG511
>>>eth1: islpci_open()
>>>eth1: resetting device...
>>>eth1: uploading firmware...
>>>eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
>>>eth1: device soft reset timed out
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device
>>>eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>........
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>eth1: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device 
>>>eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>
>>>The card works fine in Windows, and works in Linux with the Windows
>>>drivers. Distro is Gentoo. If
>>>any other information would be helpful please let me know.
>>>
>>
>>I seem to have the same problem at this point (fixed 2 other FC2 related 
>>errors yesterday). I've got the prism54 (isl3890) chipset on a smc2802w 
>>pci card. I don't get some of the messages you do, but I'm guessing 
>>that's because you're pcmcia and I'm pci. I think the critical point of 
>>failure (first error message) is the "soft reset timed out". What's 
>>curious (odd) to me is that when looking at the syslog in real time 
>>(tail -f) the message occurs very quickly (seems immediate). I've tried 
>>kernels 2.6.5 and 2.6.8 (stock, from RH) so far.
>>
>>As Red Green would say, "remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in 
>>this together". Hopefully we'll post the solution here when we find it.
> 
> 
> Nice to know I'm not the only one :) I've just tried the 2.6.7-bk3
> kernel, which
> has the 1.2 version of the driver (the others I've used had 1.1) and I
> get a kernel
> oops from ifconfig partway through the dmesg output in my first email.
> If the text
> of the oops would be useful I'll post it tomorrow, I need to get some
> sleep right now.

Not good news. I found some posts at 
http://prism54.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=492&highlight=smc+2802
I'm afraid I have a smc2802w V2. The V2 is significant. lspci reports 
vendor/device as 1260:3890, which is prismGT all right. However, it also 
reports the subsystem as 1113:ee03 (V2), instead of 10b8:2802 (V1). As 
the last post on the 2nd page of that link says, the V1 supplier part 
number (on the box) is 99-012084-164. The spn on my box is 
99-012084-285, which I presume is V2. Back it goes.

I also just received a Hawking HWP54G that I'm going to try. Now that 
everything else seems to be working, maybe I'll have some success (knock 
wood)!
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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