Please, help with the dwl520rev.E firmware!!!

[Marcos Schonfeld]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pavel Roskin" <proski at gnu.org>
To: "Marcos Schonfeld" <mschonfeld at ubp.edu.ar>
Cc: <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Please, help with the dwl520rev.E firmware!!!


> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Marcos Schonfeld wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody, first of all, thanks for your answers. But i discovered a
> > new method to get the hostap running: First I have to boot windows so
> > that the card initializes fine, then re-boot (re-boot, no power down the
> > PC) and start linux. Then the network service does try the configuration
> > of the wlan0 and load the modules that is in modules.conf as alias
> > wlan0. Then if I reboot the linux (without power-down the PC) the driver
> > works fine too. In resume, the configuration I had works fine if a boot
> > windows and then reboot and start linux. I don't have anything more to
> > say that windows saved me!!!
>
> It would be interesting to see if the configuration space of the card
> changes.  To dump it, run this command as root:
>
> lspci -xxxd 1260:
>
> Please compare the dumps for different stages, such as cold boot to Linux,
> first reboot from Windows to Linux and second reboot to Linux.  If you
> find any differences, please post your dumps to the list.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin

I run lspci -xxxd 1260: for the different stages as you told me. The results
were the same for the three cases, cold boot to Linux (failed to load the
firmware), first reboot from windows to linux (success to load the
firmware), and second reboot to linux (again success). Here is the lspci
result:

linuxNueva2:~ # lspci -xxxd 1260:
00:0d.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
(rev 01)
00: 60 12 73 38 17 00 90 02 01 00 80 02 08 20 00 00
10: 08 00 00 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 11 00 37
30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
40: 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 7e
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00