Hi,
I have a Belkin F5D6000 PCI Adapter Card on RedHat 7.3. It gets detected on proc/pci with hardware id 1638:1100.
I installed the new orinoco drivers which has support for Belkin F5D6000 cards, which I saw in orinoco_plx.c file.
Now when I try to manually load the module it gives
error
"CIS value of Prism2 PC card is invalid"

The it gives no such device.

Can anyone highlight me more on that!!!

regards
Krishna

What Prism2 card are you using in conjunction with this monster? The combo of the two may not work, weird though. Regardless as far as these PLX adapater cards go, the driver set least far along is the orinoco modules, although you can try a newer version and see if that clears it up, the links to all three projects are in my bookmarks under my profile.

Cheers,

Finegan

I am using 2mbps Teletronics card with it.

regards
Krishna

I installed the new linux-wlan driver i.e linux-wlan-ng-0.1.12.tar.gz.
I am using pcmcia version pcmcia-cs-3.1.34

I get these messages in the logs

Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: init_module: prism2_pci.o: 0.1.12-pre1 Loaded
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_pci
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: init_module: prism2_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: p80211.o: 0.1.12-pre1 Unloaded
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: init_module: prism2_plx.o: 0.1.12-pre1 Loaded
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_plx
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: A PLX PCI/PCMCIA interface device found, phymem:0xe1001000, phyio=0x6700, irq:10, mem: 0xc487e000, io:0x6700
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: prism2sta_probe_plx: Prism2 PC card CIS is invalid.
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: init_module: prism2_plx: No devices found, driver not installed.
Dec 9 21:23:40 localhost kernel: p80211.o: 0.1.12-pre1 Unloaded

The adapter seems to get detected, can anyone tell me about the errors?
The adapter is having a YDI pcmcia card with it. How do I get it working?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

regards
Krishna

Howdy,
If my memory serves me correctly the "ng" in the driver you have loaded stands for "next generation" and is the driver set for the 11Mbs cards - there is an older set of drivers specifically for the older 2Mbs cards. I won't claim to know if your specific card is supported in either bundle - but that is where I would start.
HTH
Ian

ianv as far as I can tell, has it dead right, is this one of the 2mbs pre-802.11b spec cards, then its probably a prism1 card, which doesn't work with the orinoco or linux-wlan-ng driver set. Do you have a link to the vendor site on the card?

Both of those drivers are bogging out on errors that mean they don't recognize the firmware on the card at all, so I really doubt it is even a prism2 card.

Cheers,

Finegan

http://www.intersil.com/design/prism...user/index.asp
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index...wareComparison
http://www.austinwireless.net/index.cgi/WirelessCards

Some links for you to be going on with...
Will do some more digging L8R
HTH
Ian

Hi,
I looked at the Belkin site, the FAQ there says that the adapter works only with the Wireless Notebook Card?
I don't know whether others have been able to get it working with other pmcia cards on a Belkin Adapter.

regards
Krishna

I really needed information on your specific card... so I tracked some down.

Which one is it on this page?:

http://www.teletronics.com/tii/suppo...vers.html#pcir

Also, Rkris is right, the Belkin isn't a regular pcmcia cardbus, its a pcmcia adapated specifically for the type of pcmcia card its matched to. I've gotten a Linksys PLX adapter like this to work with a D-Link Prism2 card once, but that was because the DWL-650 and the WPC-11 are basically the same card.

These two may not be functionally built to play together.

Cheers,

Finegan

HI,
The 2 mbps pcmcia card.

regards
Krishna

I read through the download from Teletronics and it seems like this is a complete source code download that works with current kernels... which from an end provider is blazing amazing, however it definately is not a prism2 card from what I can tell and therefore won't work with the Belkin adapter.

Cheers,

Finegan