Help on a texas instruments pci7420 cardbus

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

Quoting Mårten Thomasson <marten.thomasson at bredband.net>:

> Hello, I'd really appreciate some help...I've been working on this for days
> and nights now, and its driving me crazy! I have recently bought a Proxim
> Orinoco Gold 802.11 b/g pcmcia card, based on the atheros chipset, and I'm
> trying to get it work on fedora core 4 2.6.12...

Are you sure it's based on Atheros chipset?

> To get this working, I've tried the Madwifi drivers, but no matter how much
> I try, I can't get the card to appear.
>
> When I perform an lspci, its not listed.

And what is 06:02.0?  Does lspci output change if you remove the card?

> The same goes for iwconfig and
> ifconfig.

Of course, if the OS doesn't see the card, drivers cannot see it and register
the network device.

> I've cecked out many (too many!) sites, and tried to follow the advice, but
> nothing works. Please, if someone here knows what to do...

Apparently there is too much bogus information on the net.  It would be more
useful to follow only official documentation and complain if it's incomplete.

> I include the output from dmesg and lspci and /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, and
> apologize for thereby creating a long mail.

config.opts is totally irrelevant.  CardBus is seen by the OS as hot-plugged
PCI, so CardBus device drivers are PCI drivers, which are not managed by
cardmgr.

> 06:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

This looks like a CardBus card, and I see it detected by the driver in the
kernel log.

> device "ath_pci"
> 	class "network"
> 	module "ath_pci"

You probably have read too much garbage on the net.  This has never worked and
will never work.  Again, cardmgr doesn't manage PCI drivers (and in Linux
2.6.13, even PCMCIA drivers can work without cardmgr).

> ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.0.3
> ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
> <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 7 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 7
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

This is the driver for the Intel card.

Try plugging the Intel card into the socket where you are inserting the Atheros
card and vice versa.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin