From: Andrew McCall (andrew.mccall_at_goroam.net)
Date: 2002-09-08 23:06:31 UTC
Jim,
Unfortunately right now it's the only mini PCI card I have, it's also the only mini PCI board I have as well.
Andrew
Jim Thompson wrote:
> have you tried another card in that slot?
>
> On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Andrew McCall wrote:
>
>> 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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