From: Andrew McCall (andrew.mccall_at_goroam.net)
Date: 2002-09-08 21:09:29 UTC
Jim,
I'm sure the card is seated properly. It's level with all the conectors etc... at least it looks right to me. If it were not functioning would it show up in the lspci or would that be random anyway?
Andrew
Jim Thompson wrote:
> 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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