Re: Sony PCWA-C150 wireless LAN card: which driver?

Tom Payne <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:41:11PM +0200, Tom Payne wrote:
> I still get the same error:
> 
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [kernel] Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.4
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [kernel] Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] watching 2 sockets
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] starting, version is 3.2.4
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] initializing socket 0
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] socket 0: Sony Corporation PCWA-C150
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [kernel] cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] product info: "Sony Corporation", "PCWA-C150", "Version 01.01", ""
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002  function: 6 (network)
> Jul  8 18:26:20 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
> Jul  8 18:26:21 [kernel] prism2_init: prism2_cs.o: 0.2.1-pre8 Loaded
> Jul  8 18:26:21 [cardmgr] bind 'prism2_cs' to socket 0 failed: Operation not permitted

To reply to myself, and for the benefit of others who might be interested, I
finally got the card working.

I switched kernels from 2.4.20-gentoo-r4 to 2.4.22-pre6-ac1 and the problem
went away! I'm using the linux-wlan-ng drivers (PRISM2 chipset) and life is
good again.

Cheers,

Tom
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