Which firmware for Belkin F5D7050 (ISL3880 + NET2280)

Which firmware for Belkin F5D7050 (ISL3880 + NET2280)

[Wojciech Zabolotny CERN]

Hi,
I have the Belkin F5D7050 WiFi card with the following chips:
1. NET2280 REV1A-LF
2. ISL3880IK

Which firmware should I use?
It seemed to me, that the proper choice is the:

USB 1st generation (ISL3886 + net2280)  isl3886usb

download
<http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-usb/2.13.24.0.lm86.arm>

However, when I try to use it, I get the following info in my logs:

usb 1-5: firmware: requesting isl3886usb
phy3: p54 detected a LM86 firmware
p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2392
phy3: FW rev 2.13.24.0 - Softmac protocol 5.9
phy3: cryptographic accelerator WEP:YES, TKIP:YES, CCMP:YES
p54usb: probe of 1-5:1.0 failed with error -110
usbcore: registered new interface driver p54usb


Is this problem associated with the incorrect firmware version
or with something else?
-- 
TIA & BR,
WZab

Re: Which firmware for Belkin F5D7050 (ISL3880 + NET2280)

[Wojciech Zabolotny CERN]

Hi,

I've managed to run my NIC with the older firmware:
http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-usb/2.13.1.0.lm86.arm

Now I get the following output in dmesg:

cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
    (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
    (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
    (5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
    (5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
    (5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
    (5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
    (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
usb 1-4: firmware: requesting isl3886usb
phy0: p54 detected a LM86 firmware
p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2392
phy0: FW rev 2.13.1.0 - Softmac protocol 5.5
phy0: cryptographic accelerator WEP:YES, TKIP:YES, CCMP:YES
phy0: hwaddr 00:30:43:11:33:39, MAC:isl3886 RF:Frisbee
wmaster0 (p54usb): not using net_device_ops yet
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
wlan0 (p54usb): not using net_device_ops yet
usbcore: registered new interface driver p54usb


Then everything works correctly.
So it seems, that the new firmware is just incompatible with this card :-(.
-- 
BR, WZab

Re: Which firmware for Belkin F5D7050 (ISL3880 + NET2280)

[Gábor Stefanik]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Wojciech Zabolotny
CERN<wojciech.zabolotny@cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've managed to run my NIC with the older firmware:
> http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-usb/2.13.1.0.lm86.arm
>
> Now I get the following output in dmesg:
>
> cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
> cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
>    (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
>    (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
>    (5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
>    (5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
>    (5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
>    (5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
>    (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
> cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
> usb 1-4: firmware: requesting isl3886usb
> phy0: p54 detected a LM86 firmware
> p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2392
> phy0: FW rev 2.13.1.0 - Softmac protocol 5.5
> phy0: cryptographic accelerator WEP:YES, TKIP:YES, CCMP:YES
> phy0: hwaddr 00:30:43:11:33:39, MAC:isl3886 RF:Frisbee
> wmaster0 (p54usb): not using net_device_ops yet
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
> wlan0 (p54usb): not using net_device_ops yet
> usbcore: registered new interface driver p54usb
>
>
> Then everything works correctly.
> So it seems, that the new firmware is just incompatible with this card :-(.

What about an LM87 firmware? It should be supported now...

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