problem with WG511v1

problem with WG511v1

[Fabrice Lamareille]

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Hello

I have a NETGEAR WG511v1 wireless pcmcia card.
It was working perfectly on fedora 11 with the prism54 driver and the 
attached isl3890 firmware.

Since fedora 12, the p54pci driver is enabled by default, but it does 
not work with my card. I downloaded the right isl3886pci firmware on 
your website, but the card does not start...
With the old isl3890 renamed as isl3886pci, the kernel crashes.
With the attachd isl3886pci firmware, which I extracted from the windows 
driver with fwextract, it seems not to crash, but the card does not 
appear in NetworkManager nor starts automaticaly...

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Re: problem with WG511v1

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:18:02PM +0100, Fabrice Lamareille wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a NETGEAR WG511v1 wireless pcmcia card.
> It was working perfectly on fedora 11 with the prism54 driver and the  
> attached isl3890 firmware.
>
> Since fedora 12, the p54pci driver is enabled by default, but it does  
> not work with my card. I downloaded the right isl3886pci firmware on  
> your website, but the card does not start...
> With the old isl3890 renamed as isl3886pci, the kernel crashes.
> With the attachd isl3886pci firmware, which I extracted from the windows  
> driver with fwextract, it seems not to crash, but the card does not  
> appear in NetworkManager nor starts automaticaly...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm not sure what you mean by "firmware on your website", but the
file you attached does not match what is linked here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#firmware

In the command-lines pasted below, 2.13.12.0.arm is the file downloaded
through the link for "PCI / PCMCIA" for kernels 2.6.29 and above at
the URL above and isl3886pci is the file you attached to your email
by that same name.

/tmp
[linville-t400.local]:> ls -l isl3886pci 2.13.12.0.arm 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 linville linville 29036 2010-02-23 09:39 2.13.12.0.arm
-rw------- 1 linville linville 29040 2010-02-23 09:39 isl3886pci

/tmp
[linville-t400.local]:> cmp 2.13.12.0.arm isl3886pci 
2.13.12.0.arm isl3886pci differ: byte 5, line 1

If you use the specified firmware, does the device work for you?

John
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Re: problem with WG511v1

[Jens Westemeier]

Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 15:45:03 schrieb John W. Linville:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:18:02PM +0100, Fabrice Lamareille wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have a NETGEAR WG511v1 wireless pcmcia card.
> > It was working perfectly on fedora 11 with the prism54 driver and the
> > attached isl3890 firmware.
> > 
> > Since fedora 12, the p54pci driver is enabled by default, but it does
> > not work with my card. I downloaded the right isl3886pci firmware on
> > your website, but the card does not start...
> > With the old isl3890 renamed as isl3886pci, the kernel crashes.
> > With the attachd isl3886pci firmware, which I extracted from the windows
> > driver with fwextract, it seems not to crash, but the card does not
> > appear in NetworkManager nor starts automaticaly...
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "firmware on your website", but the
> file you attached does not match what is linked here:
> 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#firmware
> 
> In the command-lines pasted below, 2.13.12.0.arm is the file downloaded
> through the link for "PCI / PCMCIA" for kernels 2.6.29 and above at
> the URL above and isl3886pci is the file you attached to your email
> by that same name.
> 
> /tmp
> [linville-t400.local]:> ls -l isl3886pci 2.13.12.0.arm
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 linville linville 29036 2010-02-23 09:39 2.13.12.0.arm
> -rw------- 1 linville linville 29040 2010-02-23 09:39 isl3886pci
> 
> /tmp
> [linville-t400.local]:> cmp 2.13.12.0.arm isl3886pci
> 2.13.12.0.arm isl3886pci differ: byte 5, line 1
> 
> If you use the specified firmware, does the device work for you?
> 
> John

I have the same problem with my PrismGT based SMC 2802 FullMAC card. I use 
kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop (OpenSuSE 11.2) and tried several versions of FW.

lspci gives:

Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism 
Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)

The card is working with prism54 driver and on my dual boot Windows XP.

modprobe p54pci gives (in /var/log/messages):

p54pci 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
p54pci 0000:05:01.0: firmware: requesting isl3886pci
phy2: p54 detected a LM86 firmware
p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2376
phy2: FW rev 2.17.2.0 - Softmac protocol 7.6
phy2: cryptographic accelerator WEP:YES, TKIP:YES, CCMP:YES
phy2: device does not respond!
p54pci 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A disabled
p54pci: probe of 0000:05:01.0 failed with error -16

With every modprobe try phyx is incremented by 1.

The driver seems to be loaded properly, lsmod | grep p54 gives:

p54pci                 13128  0
p54common              33420  1 p54pci
mac80211              257024  3 p54pci,zd1211rw,p54common
cfg80211              123264  3 zd1211rw,p54common,mac80211

Any attempt to configure this card is failing.

Greetings, Jens.

Re: problem with WG511v1

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Jens Westemeier wrote:

> modprobe p54pci gives (in /var/log/messages):
> 
> p54pci 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> p54pci 0000:05:01.0: firmware: requesting isl3886pci
> phy2: p54 detected a LM86 firmware
> p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2376
> phy2: FW rev 2.17.2.0 - Softmac protocol 7.6
> phy2: cryptographic accelerator WEP:YES, TKIP:YES, CCMP:YES
> phy2: device does not respond!
> p54pci 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A disabled
> p54pci: probe of 0000:05:01.0 failed with error -16

I'm guessing this is the EBUSY return from p54_download_eeprom.
I'm not immediately familiar enough with the driver to know what that
means, but perhaps your device is showing its age?  Hopefully a P54
person can provide a more concrete suggestion.

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

Re: problem with WG511v1

[Jens Westemeier]

Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 18:58:07 schrieb John W. Linville:
> 
> I'm guessing this is the EBUSY return from p54_download_eeprom.
> I'm not immediately familiar enough with the driver to know what that
> means, but perhaps your device is showing its age?  Hopefully a P54
> person can provide a more concrete suggestion.
> 
> John

As sayed before, this device still works with prism54 as well as with Win XP 
(dual boot). There are also other reports in this mailing list ("
p54pci: "device does not respond!"", also this thread) showing the same 
problem with other cards.

I hope someone can help, I posted this problem in January already, without 
response.

Greetings, Jens.