On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:41:55PM -0800, Scott Franzyshen wrote:
> The compaq WL200's ships with a CIS that doesn't request an IRQ from the
> PCMCIA-CS.
> All drivers will load ... things seem to be there like ...
> "ifconfig -a" shows the wlan0 device etc. but nothings works ... right?
> "cat /proc/interrupts" doesn't show prism2 having an irq huh?
>

Unfortunately the drivers don't load -- it doesn't get that far.
For some reason -- bus timing, lack of memory resources -- the card
is at best mis-identified, at worst not identified. The symptoms
(being identified as anonymous memory) are caused by timing issues
or incorrect memory mapping. Having tried every memory range I could
think of or find, I think it may be timing. The PCMCIA Howto says
that this is the case in some instances.

> then you need to create a substitute CIS for the card (or get Mark to
> release
> the prism2dl utility again and try to upload a new CIS to the card) using
> the
> dump_cis and pack_cis debug utilities from pcmcia-cs package.
>
> refer to http://www.lifix.fi/extarchive/lwlan/2000-12/msg00023.html from the
> mailing list archive.
>

Thanks for the link. This tells me that even if I do get the card
identified, there will still be a bit of work to go though.

--Mark
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