<div dir="ltr"><p>I have been unable to get my wireless card working. The card is a PCMCIA SMC2532W_B card. I am using the hostap_cs module in kernel 2.26-r8. Using gentoo linux.</p><p>When I plug the card into the card slot /var/log/messages says:</p>
<p>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)<br>
Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine io->flags = 0x0047, io.base=0x0000, len=128<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0<br>
Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be fulfilled.<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines.<br>Oct 4 14:13:40 sunshine hostap_cs: index 0x01: , irq 10, io 0x0200-0x027f<br>
Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine hostap_cs: assuming no Primary image in flash - card initialization not completed<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR 41<br>
Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine prism2_pccard_genesis_sreset: original COR 41<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 c1 a1 c1<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f<br>
Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR 41<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine prism2_pccard_genesis_sreset: original COR 41<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine prism2_pccard_genesis_sreset: original COR 41<br>
Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine cardmgr[7732]: unsupported card in socket 1<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine wifi0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine wlan0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w<br>
Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine cardmgr[7732]: product info: "SMC", "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter", "", ""<br>Oct 4 14:13:41 sunshine cardmgr[7732]: manfid: 0xd601, 0x0010 function: 6 (network)<br>
Oct 4 14:13:42 sunshine wifi0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w<br>Oct 4 14:13:42 sunshine wlan0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w<br>Oct 4 14:13:43 sunshine wifi0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w<br>
Oct 4 14:13:43 sunshine wlan0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w</p><p>...and the last two messages repeat over and over again. It looks like a firmware problem. <br></p><p>It's not hardware because the card works in windows, and ubuntu linux (on the same laptop.) I would like to get it working in Gentoo linux, but I can't figure out what is going wrong. </p>
<p>Any ideas?</p></div>