Re: PCMCIA problems

From: Jouni Malinen (jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2002-05-18 18:06:15 UTC

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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:29:31PM +0100, gARetH baBB wrote:

> > Linux kernel are you
> 2.2.19

> Ah, now that will be difficult, it's actually a 4105 (still identifies as
> a 4100) which means it has an external antenna, so physically has to be in
> the uppermost socket.
>
> But if you can't think of anything it might be, I will somehow try it in
> Socket 0.

No need for that. The kernel version was the key factor in this case. I broke dev_name setting for pcmcia-cs on Linux 2.2 systems when fixing dev->name usage. Following patch fixes this:

• hostap_cs.c.orig Thu May 16 18:27:55 2002 +++ hostap_cs.c Sat May 18 20:54:37 2002 @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static int prism2_config(dev_link_t *lin return 1; }
  • copy_dev_name(local->node, dev); + strcpy(local->node.dev_name, dev->name); link->dev = &local->node;

         ret = prism2_hw_config(dev, 1);

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