Problems with the Netgear MA401

[Christopher Meredith]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 22:50, David Hinds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:54:34PM -0500, Christopher Meredith wrote:
> > 
> > That did it. I enabled CONFIG_ISA and now it seems to properly detect
> > and load the module for my card at boot. The only problem now is that
> > when it does it, it hardlocks the system. This is the entry in 
> > /var/log/messages:
> > 
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: socket 0: NETGEAR MA401RA 11Mbps
> > 802.11 WLAN Card
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
> > clean.
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: + insmod:
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22/net/p80211.o: No such file or directory
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: + insmod: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22/net/p80211.o failed
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: + insmod: insmod prism2_cs failed
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: modprobe exited with status 255
> > Sep 18 16:03:50 Judea cardmgr[66]: module
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22/pcmcia/prism2_cs.o not available
> > Sep 18 16:03:51 Judea cardmgr[66]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
> > Resource temporarily unavailable
> > 
> > The same thing happens if I use the kernel's orinoco_cs driver. Any idea
> > what's still missing?
> 
> You mean that the system locks up after displaying these messages
> (saying that it can't find prism2_cs)??
> 
> And you get the same lockup (but presumably different messages) with
> orinoco_cs?  What are the messages you get in that case, exactly?
> 
> -- Dave
> 

The message above is from /var/log/messages. I have just retyped on
another computer the last thing that displays on my screen before the
computer locks up. Here is the pertinent information:

Starting PCMCIA services: 
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 
   options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] 
   <Probing for PCIC: edit /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia> 
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... 
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found 
Intel PCIC probe: not found. 
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found. 
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 
IRQ routing conflict for 00:0a.0, have irq 5, want irq 11 
Yenta IRQ list 0e98, PCI irq5 
Socket status: 30000411 
cardmgr[67]: watching 1 sockets 
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean 
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean 
cs: IP port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f
0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7 
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean 
cardmgr[68]: starting, version is 3.2.4 
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. 
cardmgr[68]: socket 0: Netgear MA401RA Wireless Adapter 
cardmgr[68]: executing: 'modprob orinoco_cs'


Incidentally, there is no entry in /var/log/messages for this boot. But
even when I boot without the MA401 inserted, the following is reported
by 'dmesg':


Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
IRQ routing conflict for 00:0a.0, have irq 5, want irq 11
Yenta IRQ list 0e98, PCI irq5
Socket status: 30000007
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f
0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.


Could this problem be due to the IRQ conflict?

Please remember to reply to my personal email as I am still not on the
list. Is there an achive anywhere I could look at? Thanks for your help
in getting this to work!!

~Christopher