Intersil Prism Javelin MINIPCI module 1260:3886 (quite long)

Bruno Randolf bruno.randolf at 4g-systems.biz
Tue Aug 3 14:22:11 EDT 2004


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hi nettie!

the Intersil/Connexant Prism Javelin chipset is not supported by hostap. it 
may be supported by the prism54 driver at http://prism54.org in the future, 
but not yet. hostap only supports prism2/2.5/3 chips.

greetings,
bruno

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 20:15, nettie wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just aquired a bounce of Intersil/Connexant Prism Javelin MINIPCI
> adapters.
>
> The monolithic kernel I was running on my sbc was already patched and
> compiled with hostap drivers.
>
> The first problem I figured out is that the minipci module was not
> detected my the driver, after checking out hostap_pci.c I realized that
> the pci id of the module was not present. I added it and
> recompiled/installed the kernel.
>
> During boot time the module has been detected but I started having some
> problems:
>
> hostap_pci: 0.2.3 - 2004-06-20 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
> wifi0: Original COR value: 0x4e
> hostap_pci: assuming no Primary image in flash - card initialization not
> completed
> wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f
> wifi0: Original COR value: 0x4e
> Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read ce fa ce fa
> wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
> wifi0: Original COR value: 0x4e
> Readback test failed, HCR 0x0f write 00 e1 a1 ff read ce fa ce fa
> wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0x80000000, irq=12
> wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
>
> ------------
>
> When I tried to access the wlan0 interface I got the following errors:
>
> wifi0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fdc1 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fc06 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fd42 (len=6) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fc0e (len=34) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fc84 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fc83 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fc82 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fc09 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
> wifi0: cannot get RID fd48 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
>
>
> ------------
>
> [root at airbox /tmp]# /stuff/iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> teql0     no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"
>            Mode:Master
>            Encryption key:off
>            Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>            Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>            Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"
>            Mode:Master
>            Encryption key:off
>            Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>            Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>            Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> tunl0     no wireless extensions.
>
> gre0      no wireless extensions.
>
> ipsec0    no wireless extensions.
>
> ipsec1    no wireless extensions.
>
> ipsec2    no wireless extensions.
>
> ipsec3    no wireless extensions.
>
>
> ---------------
>
> [root at airbox /tmp]# ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> [root at airbox /tmp]# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:B9:00:41:0C
>            inet addr:192.168.0.77  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:797 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:336111 (328.2 KiB)  TX bytes:11216 (10.9 KiB)
>            Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> --------
>
> Well I also tried loading the firmware using prism2_srec without any
> luck :( I receive and IOCTL error.
>
> That's all I think, any of you guys have an idea of what could be wrong?
>
> Thanx a lot in advance for your time.
>
> Best,
>
> nettie
>
>
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