hi, i'm posting dmesg, i post the whole thing:
Linux version 2.4.19 (root@whitenoise) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #8 SMP Mon Jul 28 18:22:13 CEST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bf70000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf70000 - 000000001bf7c000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf7c000 - 000000001bf80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf80000 - 000000001c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000002bf80000 - 000000002c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
447MB LOWMEM available.
Advanced speculative caching feature not present
On node 0 totalpages: 114544
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 110448 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Sony Vaio laptop detected.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux_latest ro root=304
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2658.242 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS
Memory: 450148k/458176k available (1473k kernel code, 7640k reserved, 586k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After vendor init, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After vendor init, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz stepping 07
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.46 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8a0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
okir@monad.swb.de).
ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018]
ACPI: Subsystem enabled
EC: found, GPE 24
ACPI: System firmware supports S0 S3 S4 S5
ACPI: AC Adapter found
ACPI: Thermal Zone found
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xdc80e000, size 65472k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=41
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:51eb
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
lspci -vv, this message (10b9,5457,104d,8158)
and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
to
serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net.
register_serial(): autoconfig failed
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: HITACHI_DK23EA-40, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.25
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:12.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe07ffc00, 08:00:46:a6:b0:a1, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 380M
agpgart: unsupported bridge
agpgart: no supported devices found.
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:05.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0c.1
airo: Probing for PCI adapters
airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters
usb.c: registered new driver hub
Yenta IRQ list 04a8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 00a8, PCI irq10
Socket status: 30000410
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0a.2
hcd.c: ehci-hcd @ 00:0c.2, VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
hcd.c: irq 11, pci mem e0805800
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hcd/ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 0.95
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:23:17 Jul 28 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:05.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8080, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0a.1
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x80a0, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Adding Swap: 1951888k swap-space (priority -1)
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.0.3 - 2003-05-18 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
prism2_config()
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
prism2_hw_init()
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 11546 iterations
wlan0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6
wlan0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WEP
wlan0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wlan0: prism2_open
wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:30:ab:23:62:93
thanks for you help. bye
matteo