Bug#374325: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686: prism2 pc-card not workng

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686
Version: 2.6.16-14
Severity: normal

Hi,

I've got an ALLNET 0192 pc-card:

PRODID_1="PCMCIA"
PRODID_2="11M WLAN Card v2.5"
PRODID_3="ISL37300P"
PRODID_4="RevA"
MANFID=0274,1612

This card is about three years old, and used to work with the
linux-wlan-ng drivers back in the days (and also with hostap when I
tried intermittedly).  It is working fine on Ubuntu breezy (2.6.12)
using the orinoco_cs driver:

orinoco_cs              8936  1
orinoco                40748  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  7328  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
pcmcia                 27176  5 orinoco_cs
pcmcia_core            50788  4 orinoco_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

On current unstable, both the hostap_cs and orinoco_cs drivers are
getting loaded, and they don't use pcmcia_core:

hostap_cs              53588  0
hostap                 99140  1 hostap_cs
orinoco_cs             16420  0
orinoco                34452  1 orinoco_cs
hermes                  7136  2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
firmware_class          9472  1 pcmcia
pcmcia                 34844  2 hostap_cs,orinoco_cs
pcmcia_core            37232  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic

in syslog:

Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: Hardware identity 800c:0000:0001:0000
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: Station identity  001f:0005:0001:0003
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.3.5
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:02:DD:34:B7:04
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: ready
Jun 18 17:22:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
Jun 18 17:22:59 nighthawk kernel: ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
Jun 18 17:22:59 nighthawk kernel: hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
Jun 18 17:22:59 nighthawk kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

dhcp client is then called, but no offers recieved.

However, iwconfig shows reasonable (to me) output:

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"Chemical Connections"  Nickname:"Prism I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:66:D9:98:DB
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=92/92  Signal level=5/153  Noise level=107/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

On ifdown I get:

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

If I add blacklist hostap{,_cs} to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, nothing
really changes except the hostap-specific lines in syslog go away, I
still don't get an IP.

Another thing I found in kern.log:

Jun 18 16:44:58 nighthawk kernel: eth1: Tx timeout! ALLOCFID=0123, TXCOMPLFID=0122, EVSTAT=800b

Any idea what else I should try?


thanks,

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.60       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-2    tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 recommends:
pn  libc6-i686                    <none>     (no description available)

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