cardbus/pcmcia under fedora core 4

[Francois Wautier]

If I may....

I have a similar card (a prism54 based that is)  and I had a similar behaviour 
before I configured my network interface

It does not look like a PCMCIA problem.

Try something like

		iwconfig eth1 essid <you essid>
or
		iwconfig eth1 essid <your essid> key <your key>


Then
		ifconfig eth1 <valid ip address>

You should be able to ping things on your network. (You may need to add a 
route)

You can also try
	iwlist scan

To check if you can see your AP.

If all that works, you just have to configure that network in interface in 
Fedora.  ... I do not know how you do that :)

Cheers,
	François



> Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> >Also try out passing reserve=0x20000000,0x10000000 to the kernel
>
> hi dominik,
>
> thanks for the advice! i have done as you suggested and: voila! fedora
> won't freeze anymore when calling up cardmgr and when starting up
> pcmcia-services during boot. however, there still seems to be somewhat
> of a problem, since the pci hotplug system does not recognize card
> insertion events. when i insert my wireless network card (netgear wg511
> v3.0, 32-bit CardBus Card), the system won't beep, that a card has been
> inserted.
>
> output of /var/log/messages during insertion of the card is:
> Jul  8 08:53:19 storm kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
> Jul  8 08:53:19 storm kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 ->
> 0002)
> Jul  8 08:53:19 storm kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] ->
> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
>
>  iwconfig tells me, that eth1 as which the card is listed, is "NOT
> READY". when trying to configure the card's ip adress with ifconfig, i
> get the following message in /var/log/messages:
>
> Jul  8 08:57:46 storm kernel: eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
> Jul  8 08:57:47 storm kernel: eth1: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying
> Jul  8 08:57:47 storm kernel: eth1: interface reset failure
> Jul  8 08:57:47 storm kernel: prism54: Your card/socket may be faulty,
> or IRQ line too busy :(
>
> cardctl ident shows:
> product info: "Intersil", "ISL3890", "-", "-"
>   manfid: 0x000b, 0x3890
>   function: 254 ((null))
>
> cardctl info shows:
> PRODID_1="Intersil"
> PRODID_2="ISL3890"
> PRODID_3="-"
> PRODID_4="-"
> MANFID=000b,3890
> FUNCID=254
>
> i have downloaded the current firmware from prism54.org and installed it
> per instructions there on my laptop. to no avail. do you have any ideas?
>
> once again, let me tell you (and the list) how much i appreciate your
> support and the fact, that you answer to people's problems just for the
> fun of it.
>
> cheers,
> nick
>
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