From: Jim Thompson (jim_at_netgate.com)
Date: 2002-09-08 22:59:20 UTC
have you tried another card in that slot?
On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Andrew McCall wrote:
> Jim,
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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 02:35 PM, Andrew McCall wrote:
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>>> 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).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> 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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