Greetings, I have an older "fullmac" SMC 2802W PCI card that I'd like to get running with the new p54 driver. A few years ago I had it working with the old prism54 driver. At the time, I had hoped to set up an AP but there were persistent problems between prism54 and hostapd, particularly involving WPA. These seem to be resolved in the new driver framework. This is how the card identifies in lspci -v: 0a:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] SMC2802W Wireless PCI Adapter Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16 Memory at fd0fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Kernel modules: p54pci Following the instructions for kernel 2.6.28 at http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54, I downloaded firmware 2.13.1.0.arm and renamed it "isl3886pci". I think these instructions are incorrect, because the driver then complained that it could not find the firmware. When I renamed it "isl3886" the driver found the firmware file, with the following result: p54pci 0000:0a:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 p54pci 0000:0a:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 p54pci 0000:0a:00.0: firmware: requesting isl3886 p54: LM86 firmware p54: FW rev 2.13.1.0 - Softmac protocol 5.5 phy0: device does not respond! p54pci 0000:0a:00.0: PCI INT A disabled p54pci: probe of 0000:0a:00.0 failed with error -16 (I am running 'pristine' 2.6.28 SMP x86_64. Is there a way to make this more verbose?) I'm still suspicious about the instructions. I think my chip is a 3890---does it need its own firmware? I'd be happy to test out driver patches, etc. if this has a non-trivial solution (and assuming anyone still cares about this old hardware). Thanks, Mark haunma@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
