[ltp] NetGear WG511 with fc3

[Bert Haskins]

Other points:
The kernel and hotplug are 2.6.9-1.667
I think that the prism54 driver is built into this kernel.

The first item after doing iwconfig <enter> is "NOT READY"

If I have the MN-520 (b) card in and shutdown, put in theWG511 and 
restart I would expect to
go through the "new hardware found" routine.
This doesn't  happen.

If I pop out the card the system gets stuck in a
"unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free: Usage count =  ( 
number varies ) " loop
and won't shutdown.

The MN-520 card installs to IRQ 3, WG511 to IRQ 11, IMHO 3 is better.

Mauro Maroni wrote:

>The LED turns on after the firmware is uploaded and the card is soft 
>reset, but in your case is failing in that second step so you never reach 
>that point (LED on)
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>Kernel version? Hotplug package version?
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>Regards,
>Mauro
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>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Bert Haskins wrote:
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>>Mauro Maroni wrote:
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>>>Sounds strange...did you try with another firmware version?
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>>All four of the versions!
>>I think that the key to this is that I don't get either  led to light... 
>>ever
>>With the MN-520 both leds come on early in the boot process.
>>I just put the MN-520 back in because I needed to update some files.
>>It came right up, no need to change anything.
>>Do you suppose that there may be something left by the MN-520 somewhere 
>>in the system
>>that is stopping the WG511 from coming up?
>>Thanks,
>>    Bert
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>>>On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Bert Haskins wrote:
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>>>>Winsley von Spee wrote:
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>>>>>Am Samstag, den 04.12.2004, 23:24 -0500 schrieb Bert Haskins:
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>>>>>>I'm running fc3 on my 390X, and I can't seem to get my NetGear WG511 
>>>>>>Wireless 802.11g card to work with it.
>>>>>>It uses the Prism54 Chipset.
>>>>>>The card runs fine under W2K.
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>>>>>>The isl3890 firmware from prism54  is in  /lib/firmware.
>>>>>>Lsmod and cat interrupts both show prism54.
>>>>>>Cardctl ident shows both slots empty(?)..
>>>>>>This command under Mepis 2004 shows
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>>>>>>product info: "Intersil", "ISL3890", "-", "-"
>>>>>>manfid: 0x00b, 0x3890
>>>>>>function: 254 ((null))
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>>>>>>The card does not show up under the Internet connection wizard
>>>>>>although it did when I first tried to set it up(?).
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>>>>>>Has anyone else on the list had good results with this card?
>>>>>>Or have and ideas on what I might be missing.
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>>>>>>A MN520 (wireless b) card runs fine in this machine
>>>>>>and shows up under cardctl ident.
>>>>>>This card was very easy to set up.
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>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>  Bert
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>>>>>I used this card a relative long time. All I did was including support
>>>>>in the Kernel and putting the firmware to /lib/firmware. 
>>>>>What does dmesg say after putting in the card
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>>>>/// new lines in dmesg
>>>>Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
>>>>PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
>>>>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
>>>>ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
>>>>eth0: islpci_open()
>>>>eth0: resetting device...
>>>>eth0: uploading firmware...
>>>>eth0: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
>>>>eth0: device soft reset timed out
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, triggering device
>>>>eth0: timeout waiting for mgmt response
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgmt tx queue is still full
>>>>eth0: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device
>>>>eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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>>>>>and what says lspci ???
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>>>>lspci says "2:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil 
>>>>ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)"
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>>>>>If you build the wlan driver as a module also check lsmod.
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>>>>lsmod shows the prism54 module.
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>>>>>Greetz
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