Orinoco_plx woes on 2.6.13

From: Nathan Mahon (lkml.org_at_vaevictus.net)
Date: 07/14/05

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    I use a Belkin F5D6020 wifi card, (version one), and a belkin f5d6000 pci adapter for it. A while ago, it was working flawlessly, though I
    didn't use it that much after the wife's laptop died.
    I've rolled through some kernel upgrades... and it appears my wifi does not work anymore.
    here's the technical stuff:

    I was still using 2.4 when it was working for sure, but I can't verify that it wasn't ever working on 2.6.
    under 2.6.11, i noticed the problem, I couldn't bring the interface up.
    dmesg produced similar results (to 2.6.13 i have now), but iirc, the
    iwconfig didn't make it look like the card was working at all. I rolled
    to 2.6.13, and things improved only slightly.

    Now, with 2.6.13, I get a successful modprobe orinoco_plx:

    >> auron root # dmesg
    >> orinoco_plx 0.15rc2 (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, David Gibson
    >> <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>)
    >> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0a.0
    >> orinoco_plx: Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PLX device at 0000:00:0a.0 irq:9,
    >> io addr:0x2c00
    >> orinoco_plx: CIS: 01:03:00:00:FF:17:04:67:5A:08:FF:1D:05:01:67:5A:
    >> eth2: Hardware identity 8002:0000:0001:0000
    >> eth2: Station identity 001f:0003:0000:0008
    >> eth2: Firmware determined as Intersil 0.8.3
    >> eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
    >> eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
    >> eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
    >> eth2: MAC address 00:30:BD:63:21:11
    >> eth2: Station name "Prism I"
    >> eth2: ready
    >
    >

    and at this point, iwconfig looks like the card is behaving somewhat:

    >> auron root # iwconfig eth2
    >> eth2 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I"
    >> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
    >> 00:00:00:00:00:00
    >> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
    >> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
    >> Encryption key:off
    >> Power Management:off
    >> Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
    >> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    >> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
    >
    >

    dmesg hasn't changed at this point.
    however, ifconfig breaks it:
    auron root # ifconfig eth2 10.5.6.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
    10.5.6.255

    >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
    >
    >

    and dmesg now says this:

    >> hermes @ 00012c00: Card removed while waiting for command 0x0f38
    >> completion.
    >> eth2: Error -19 configuring card
    >
    >

    and if i retry the ifconfig, i get a different error and a different
    dmesg result:

    >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Connection timed out
    >
    >

    >> eth2: Error -110 setting MAC address
    >> eth2: Error -110 configuring card
    >
    >

    Just to state the implied, I'm *not* removing the card, and rmmod'ing the orinico_plx driver and re-modprobing it will produce consistantly the same errors.

    Thanks,
    Nathan Mahon

    System: old amd k6-2 333mhz box with 256mb ram
    Distro: gentoo
    Kernel config: http://www.vaevictus.net/2.6.13_config.txt
    First Post: so flame me if necessary. :D

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