Card works on WinXP, dead in Linux: Prism2 MiniPCI card in tablet PC
Hi there!
I got a lovely little tablet PC (These things are SOO COOL) But! It came with wildly outdated Prism2 Firmware (Secondary=0.4) I bought 5 of these PCs, all the others I flashed with Winupdate to 1.8.4. No problems. On one, however, I tried to flash it while I was connected to the network and downloading stuff (OOPS!). So the flash failed. I inevitably stumbled across newer windows drivers, and whala- they seem to flash their own firmware to the card's RAM only - and work perfectly. The update utility (Winupdate 0.5 and 0.7) has some "Cant read RID error" - so it's useless. It worked on Linux (with wlan-ng) before I flashed it, but not in Windows. Now it works in Windows, but not in Linux :~~~( Booh-hooh. I've just spent the last 4 hours trying to get this thing to work. Here's what I've tried: Linux 2.6.12.2 (Slackware) * modprobe prism2_pci prism2pci_init: prism2pci.o: 0.2.3 Loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 000:01:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5 A Prism2.5 PCI device found, phymem:0xe0500000, irq:5, mem:0xe007e000 iwconfig shows wlan0, but with no wireles extensions Trying to flash with prism2dl gives "prism2dl: No such device" For all practical purposes wlan0 "doesnt exist" (although it shows in iwconfig) rmmod prism2_pci... * modprobe orinoco_pci orinoco_pco 0.14alpha2 ..... Detects it, also gives the interrupt top then: orinoco_pci: Failed to register net device rmmod orinoco_pci * modprobe hostap_pci OOh, this one goes absolutely mad: Then I get about a trillion: wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0 wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: NIC: id=0x300 v768.53053.53053 wifi0: PRI: id=0x300 v768.53053.53053 wifi0: STA: id=0x300 v768.53053.53053 wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands wifi0: Command completion event, but no pending commands (I get so many of them, they overwrite each other in /var/log/messages and i have to cat it from /proc/kmsg to see what it is saying!!!) Needless to say, none of the flash utilities register that a card is present! Does anybody have any suggestions, ideas or experience with this?! THANKS |
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