Prism2, DWL-650 and ISA adaptor problems

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:26:55AM +0000, mallum wrote:
> on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:18:25AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 
> > 	This is wrong. My DWL 650 is a 16 bit card and work perfectly
> > in a ISA-Pcmcia slot (except for the usual Intersil firmware bugs).
> > 	The problem is that the card has a buggy CIS and doesn't
> > advertise voltage properly. With orinoco_cs, you use the
> > "ignore_cis_vcc" trick as indicated in the release notes.
> > 
> 
> Cool, I tried this ( eventually giving up on the prism2 drivers ) and
> it worked kind of , though very eratically. The card seemed to 'die'
> after a random amount of time and /var/log/messages is filled with
> this randomness;
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Nov  5 08:18:52 localhost kernel: hermes @ 0x180: Card removed while
> issuing com
> mand.
> Nov  5 08:18:53 localhost last message repeated 10 times
> Nov  5 08:18:54 localhost kernel: o BAP
> Nov  5 08:18:54 localhost kernel: Error -16 writing packet header to
> BAP
> Nov  5 08:18:54 localhost kernel: hermes @ 0x180: Card removed while
> waiting for
>  command completion.
> Nov  5 08:18:54 localhost kernel: er to BAP<3>eth1: Error -16 writing
> packet hea
> der to BAP
> 
>  ... lots more of this ... 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Also not Im _not_ removing the card and then truncated line is how it
> appears in my log file. Also I get the same errors weather in the ISA
> adaptor or my laptop. I was also getting TX Errors ( though they seem
> not to have appeared in the log ). The 'client' machines were using
> orinoco cards.
> 
> Is this the Dlink's buggy firmware ? Should I just give up with this
> evil card ? Has anybody actually got a DWL-650 working reliably ?
> 
>  -- Matthew Allum

	That's weird. It doesn't look like something with the
firmware.
	Could you try to force the card at another I/O address (using
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts).

	Jean