trying to configure a DWL-500

[Pavel Roskin]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Roberto De Leo wrote:

> I spent a whole day trying to configure correctly my DWL-500 card under 
> Linux (Slackware 9.1) but still something is not working, is someone out 
> there using this card successfully?

I haven't used this card, but there are some success stories on the web, 
for instance here:  http://www.raw-io.com/pci_802.11b.html

Have you searched the web?  Have you tried "irq_mode=0" already?

> The fact that something was wrong was already clear from /var/log/messages:
>
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.7
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel:   kernel build: 2.4.26 #1 SMP Mon May 17 
> 13:51:43 UTC 2004
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel:   Ricoh RL5C475 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 
> 02:08, mem 0xf1001000
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel:     host opts [0]: [pci only] [io 3/6/1] [mem 
> 3/6/1] [pci irq 19] [lat 32/176] [bus 3/6]
> May 17 17:37:41 nehwon kernel:     PCI card interrupts, polling interval = 
> 1000 ms

You have interrupt problems.  Use "irq_mode=0" as argument for "i82365" 
module.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin