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Old 07-25-2004, 03:40 PM   #1
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Linux locks when I insert wireless PCMCIA card


I installed Mandrake 10, and compiled the wlan drivers without a hitch. When I insert the card, the thing hard locks unless I remove the card, and then it runs just fine. Has anyone else had this problem? What logs could I post that might help?
 
Old 07-25-2004, 04:09 PM   #2
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Here is part of /var/log/syslog that might help:

Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa cardmgr[3156]: socket 0: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card (Prism 3)
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa cardmgr[3156]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa wland[3353]: wland daemon init successful
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa wland[3353]: netlink socket opened and bound successfully
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa kernel: prism2cs_init: prism2_cs.o: 0.2.1-pre21 Loaded
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa kernel: prism2cs_init: dev_info is: prism2_cs
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa ifplugd(wlan0)[3365]: ifplugd 0.21b initializing.
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa ifplugd(wlan0)[3365]: Using interface wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00 with driver <p80211_prism2_cs> (version: 0.2.1-pre21)
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa ifplugd(wlan0)[3365]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa ifplugd(wlan0)[3365]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa wlan.agent[3367]: WLAN Hotplug bypassed for pcmcia
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa cardmgr[3156]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
Jul 25 17:07:20 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + FATAL: Module wlan0 not found.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + message=lnxreq_ifstate
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + ifstate=fwload
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + resultcode=success
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: PDA Read from 0x007f0000 in NV space.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: PDA Read from 0x007f0000 in EXTDS space.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0003.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0005.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0402.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0403.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0404.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0408.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: Writing 2590 bytes to ram @0x7e0000
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: Writing 2268 bytes to ram @0x7e0b00
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: Writing 2 bytes to ram @0x7e17fe
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 4 bytes away.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at byte 1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at byte 4
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: Synaptics driver lost sync at byte 1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa last message repeated 2 times
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0406.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0302.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0303.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0412.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0413.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0414.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: hfa384x_docmd_wait: hfa384x_cmd timeout(1), reg=0xffff.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa kernel: hfa384x_cmd_access: Call to hfa384x_docmd_wait failed (-110 0)
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: writeimage()->xxxdl_state msg indicates failure, w/ resultcode=11, aborting download.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + prism2dl: Failed to ramwrite image data for /etc/wlan//prism2_rf.hex, exiting.
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Reading S-record file /etc/wlan//prism2_ak.hex...
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + NIC ID: 0x801b v1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + MFI ID: 0x1 v1 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + CFI ID: 0x2 v2 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + PRI ID: 0x3 v1 4->4
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Version: ID 0x15 1.1.4
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Compat: Role 0 Id 0x3 v4 4->5
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Compat: Role 0x1 Id 0x2 v2 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Seq: 0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800c 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8013 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8017 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x801b 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8022 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Reading S-record file /etc/wlan//prism2_rf.hex...
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + NIC ID: 0x801b v1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + MFI ID: 0x1 v1 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + CFI ID: 0x2 v2 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + PRI ID: 0x3 v1 4->4
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Version: ID 0x1f 1.8.3
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Compat: Role 0 Id 0x4 v3 1->15
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Compat: Role 0x1 Id 0x1 v1 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Compat: Role 0x1 Id 0x2 v2 1->1
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Compat: Role 0x1 Id 0x3 v1 4->4
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Seq: 0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800a 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800b 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800c 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800d 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8012 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8013 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8014 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8016 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8017 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8018 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x801a 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x801b 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x801c 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8021 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8022 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8023 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800a 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x800e 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8015 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8019 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x801d 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Platform: ID 0x8024 1.0.0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + Firmware failed to load for device wlan0
Jul 25 17:07:21 tressa cardmgr[3156]: + ./wlan-ng: line 1: [Alarms]: command not found
 
  


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