Problems with a prism3 based SSF card

[Gorka Epelde]

I'm having problems when i try to get my card to work.In Windows works,
the driver loads the firmware from the driver itself. In Linux i can't
get it to work. I've tried loading the firmware with the "prism2_srec"
application to the ram but doesn't let me do it. 
I guess the problem is the prism2_srec needs the driver to be working
before upgrading the firmware, but the firmware won't load if the
firmware is not on the pccard. Has anyone got any SSF card working? any
idea how to get it working?

I need to load a firmware not to upload.

This is what i get in the initialization of the driver at the begining
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/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr.
[root at 2103-epe utils]# May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: starting,
version is 3.1.31
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: watching 1 sockets
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: Card Services release does not
match
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe kernel: cs: IO port upprobe 0x0c00-0x0cff:
clean.
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff:
clean.
May 13 12:26:55 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: socket 0: Intersil Ikerlan
May 13 12:26:56 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: executing: 'modprobe
hostap_crypt'
May 13 12:26:56 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: executing: 'modprobe hostap'
May 13 12:26:56 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: executing: 'modprobe hostap_cs
ignore_cis_vcc=1'
May 13 12:26:56 2103-epe kernel: hostap_cs: 0.0.2 - 2003-05-03 (Jouni
Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup wlan0
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe cardmgr[3366]: executing: './network start
wlan0'
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe kernel: hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3,
io 0x0400-0x047f
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe kernel: hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe kernel: hostap_cs: card initialization timed
out
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe kernel: hostap_cs: Initialization failed
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe kernel: wlan0: MAC port 0 enabling failed
May 13 12:26:57 2103-epe kernel: wlan0: could not enable MAC port
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and would get this error when trying to load firmware

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ioctl: No such device
Missing wlan component info
Could not read wlan RIDs
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and i get next as a result of hostap_diag -a wlan0
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./hostap_diag -a wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

ioctl: No such device
Could not communicate with the kernel driver.
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Any help would be appreciated