ISL3890 chipset problem
 

Hey,

I want to set a wifi on a FC3 box using the SMC 2802W card (ISL 3890 chipset).
When i try to activate eth2 it gives
SIOCSIFFLAGS : file not found.
Loads of website refers to prism54.org but the site is down.
I have put the firmware in /etc/firmware and /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware under the name isl3890 but i still get the same error.
dmesg just says that it couldn't load the firmware.

Any idea?

Thanks

Manu

I meet the same problem: it couldn't load the firmware!

Somebody could help me??

regards

i had this problem back in the day with my smc2835w card. there are two things i can think of for you to check:

1] do you have firmware.agent

2] do you have the firmware_class module available for your kernel to use?

to get [1] i had to download it off of sourceforge.net

to get [2] i had to recompile my kernel (2.4.23) and make sure that i had the option for all of the firmware stuff checked. for me, i compiled it as a module and let the kernel dynamically load it when necessary. that way, i can do a lsmod and see that firmware_class is loaded when i stick my card into the pcmcia slot. the other choice is, you can just compile it into the kernel and not have to worry about dynamic loads.

My kerner is 2.6.9-1.667, when config the kernel, I can get the info:

Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
--- Hotplug firmware loading support // why it can not be choiced?[*] Select only driver that don't need compile-time external firmware

What does "Hotplug firmware loading support" module depends on other modules ? How could I compile it into the kernel as[*]Hotplug firmware loading support ??

hi,

i've never used a 2.6 kernel before so i'm not exactly sure what the problem is. to my knowledge, firmware loading support does not depend on any other modules.

i went ahead and checked my .config file (actually, used make menuconfig) for my 2.4.23 kernel and found this under:

Library routines --->

there was this entry:

< > Hotplug firmware loading support

for me, i selected this option so that it looks like:

<*> Hotplug firmware loading support

meaning it would (and did) get compiled as a kernel module. from my understanding, such modules get loaded dynamically when they are needed. or, they can be loaded manually with modprobe. i read a bit further and noted that i did not have the option of building the module into the kernel. i only had the option of compiling as a loadable module.

perhaps this is to say that you need to have the option of "loadable module support" selected as a kernel compile option? for me, i have these entries in my config file:

Loadable module support -->[*] Enable loadable module support[*] Set version information on all module symbols[*] Kernel module loader

i don't know if this helped. sorry.

Thanks for your relpy.
I checked the kernel 2.6.9's .config file, Hotplug firmware loading is supported. Formerly I used the prism54-svn-latest.tar.bz2, and then I changed the Prism54-1.1 stable driver instead of the latest driver. Firmware I used 1.0.4.3.arm, it's OK now!

ok, cool!

actually, when i installed prism54 back in april, i downloaded the cvs version from prism54.org and it did not work. so then i downloaded a stable version known to work for many people (dated 11/2004 !!!) and then everything worked just fine...

props to you for having the presence of mind to try a different build.