Hello, > 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. AP-Support for mac80211 is still on the todo-list. http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/todo-list#APsupport > 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 what's lspci -nnv -s 0a:00.0 ? (I'm looking for the subsystem vendor & product id) > 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: Thanks, fixed the wiki. > 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?) did you compile the old prism54 code as well? If yes, can you please try if it works? > I'm still suspicious about the instructions. I think my chip is a > 3890---does it need its own firmware? Intersil used the same PCIIDs on several different designs. But so far I haven't seen anyone with a real "3890", most likely because the 3880 chip was a lot cheaper. Don't worry the softmac firmware works on previous fullmac designs as well => no special firmwares required. The reason why we call id isl3886(pci) is because we don't want to conflict with prism54's firmware files. > 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). You can give the wireless-testing git tree a try. (Although, I don't think it will work either...) (with this firmware http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-softmac/2.13.12.0.arm . put it into /lib/firmware and link it to isl3886pci). Regards, Chr -- 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
