mini-PCI support for orinoco_cs

David Gibson hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Oct 30 10:57:37 EST 2001


On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:14:32PM -0700, Manoj Kasichainula wrote:
> [Please keep me cc:ed on any replies, I'm not on the wireless mailing
> list at the moment]
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:55:15AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 	Unpack attached stuff in .../drivers/net/wireless/, apply the
> > patch and compile. It doesn't work on my box (but wlan-ng doesn't
> > either), but maybe you can beat it into submission.
> 
> Well, a simple pleading with it hasn't worked so far. Here's the
> kernel output when I load the module:
> 
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
> Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 02:02.0, mem:0xEC000000 to
> 0xEC000FFF -> 0xe8914000, irq:11
> Reset
> done......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................;
> Clear
> Reset.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................;
> pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - 7D6 - 7A4
> eth1: MAC address 00:20:E0:89:0C:AD
> eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0001:0001
> eth1: Unknown vendor, assuming it's an Intersil card.
> eth1: You may want to report the MAC address and model of the card
> eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.01
> eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
> eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported.
> eth1: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
> eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
> eth1: ready
> 
> My mini-PCI card is actually (allegedly) a prism 2.5, but I don't see
> anywhere in the driver source where "Prism  I" could come from. I
> guess that comes from the card itself.

With that firmware version it looks more like a Symbol firmware.
Maybe we should try hacking the firmware logic to detect it as that.
The MAC address belongs to Premax Electronics Inc., whoever they are.

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