Re: More Re: Actiontec mini PCI card?


From: Jim Thompson (jim_at_netgate.com)
Date: 2002-09-08 20:00:32 UTC



its entirely likely that the card isn't properly seated. It does ID (Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3873), so config cycles work, but pci data cycles (read/write) appear to be non-functional.

On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 02:35 PM, Andrew McCall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible or even likely that the card/mother board isn't
> working? Would the card even show up in the bios list of pci devices
> or lspci if it wasn't working? I'm lost for what's next, any help?
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew McCall wrote:
>
>> Jouni
>> I dont know how useful the output of dmesg will be but here it is:
>>
>> hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 2002-05-19 (SSH Communications
>> Security Corp, Jouni Malinen)
>> hostap_pci: (c) SSH Communications Security Corp <jkm_at_ssh.com>
>> hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0
>> prism2_hw_init()
>> hostap_pci: card initialization timed out
>> hostap_pci: Initialization failed
>> hostap_pci: hardware initialization failed
>> hostap_pci: Netdevice wlan0 unregistered
>> prism2_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
>>
>> The card is installed and as I said is showing up in the lspci :
>>
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]: Unknown device 3000
>> 00:10.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3873
>> (rev 01)
>> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation:
>> Unknown device 0020
>> 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation:
>> Unknown device 0020
>> 00:14.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation:
>> Unknown device 0020
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> Jouni Malinen wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:00:45PM +0100, Andrew McCall wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> It shows up in /proc/pci, but the hostap driver cant find it when I
>>>> modprobe.
>>>>
>>>> Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
>>>> Network controller: PCI device 1260:3873 (Harris Semiconductor)
>>>> (rev 1).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At least the PCI id is matching and hostap_pci.o should try to
>>> initialize the card. Do you get any useful debug messages (check
>>> 'dmesg'
>>> output) from the driver when you try to load the module?
>>>
>>>
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