Re: Problem with 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g PC Card (3CRWE154G72) VER 2.0

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 01:55:31AM +0200, Jonathan W wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first post here so bare with me :)
> 
> 
> Anyway I have some problems with getting my 3Com Wireless PC Card
> working with the 1.2 prism54 driver using kernel 2.6.8.1 with firmware
> 1.0.4.3.arm (I have tried all of them, problem remains the same).
> According to your page http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php it looks
> like my card should be supported. After some research it seems that the
> card you are referring to as being supported with your driver is version
> 1.0 of my card. I really have no idea what the problem maybe but it's
> there and it is really annoying.
> Anyway now to the problem. The card gets detected perfectley at boot by
> the prism54 driver. But whenever I try to bring the card up with:

[snip]

> 
> 06:00.0 Class 0280: 10b7:6001 (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: a727:6001
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 10
>         Memory at 11000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 
> 
> And thats where I am right now, perhaps some of you dev-gurus out there
> could hack up a patch? That would be lovely :)

I think you have the same problem I had... I returned the card to the shop.
The problem is that it appears to be version 2 of the card, 3com in their
wisdom have "upgraded" the internals and now it doesn't work anymore with
prism54 driver :(

Cheers

Simon