Wireless Zoom Air with Debian

solis · 12-23-2003, 09:37 AM

Hello, I'm a new in debian and I'm Spanish, (perdon my bad English).

I have this problem:
1 ZoomAir 4105 with PCI->PCMCIA Adapter
1 Debian on K6-500

My debian reports when "uname" :

Code:

# uname --all
Linux penelope 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown

My "cardctl":

Code:

# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "ZoomAir 11Mbps High", "Rate wireless Networking", "", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)

But my "iwconfig":

Code:

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

what occurs.....

I need Help....

Thanks

V.Lopez

beyer42 · 12-23-2003, 04:57 PM

That is a Prism II card and is supported by linux-wlan-ng driver

http://www.linux-wlan.org/

Checkout the different links on the page and also

http://www.goonda.org/wireless/prism2/index.html

That card uses linux-wlan-ng driver

I believe ng stands for Next Generation, kind of a Star Trek thing.

ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/

solis · 12-24-2003, 01:36 AM

This appears in de "message" in "/var/logs/"

Code:

Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.33
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel:   kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel: PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel:   TI 1410 rev 01 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:09, mem 0x10000000
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel:     host opts [0]: [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 5] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel:     PCI irq 5 test failed
Dec 22 13:02:30 penelope kernel:     ISA irqs (scanned) = none!<6>    *NO* card interrupts, polling interval = 1000 ms
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x378-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x0377: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x03bf: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x047f: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0490-0x04cf: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Dec 22 13:02:31 penelope kernel: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use

what this means????

thanks...

beyer42 · 12-24-2003, 06:07 AM

try OPTS= nothing in the /etcsysconfig/pcmcia, so it doesn't need to
be explicit the "irq_mode=x".

Look at http://www.worldofjon.com/artze4560us.html it explains PrismII issues on Debian.

Hope this helps.

beyer42 · 12-24-2003, 06:28 AM

: When the prism2_cs module loads, I see the message "RequestIRQ:
Resource in use" and the load fails! What's going on?

Is your card a 16-bit PCMCIA card? If it is, you may need to
recompile your kernel with ISA bus support enabled (CONFIG_ISA=y).
The PCMCIA core uses ISA bus support to help determine what IRQs
are available for the card. Without it, the PCMCIA core may not be
able to select an IRQ.

solis · 01-26-2004, 04:39 AM

Anyone know one step by step to make this....