Re: prism54, 2.6.8, WG511

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Friday 12 August 2005 19:21, Chris Beggy wrote:
> I'm failing to run a WG511 wireless CardBus card, with the latest prism54
> firmware and driver, on a Toshiba 2100.
>
> The prism54 seems to be loaded with hotplug.
>
> Is the problem with IRQ, pcmcia, PCI?
> Restarting /etc/init.d/pcmcia or /etc/init.d/networking do not
> fix things.  The entry for the WG511 /etc/networks/interfaces
> seems OK.  The device gets recognized by iwconfig as sit0, which
> seems strange.
>
> Here's some output from dmesg:
>
> Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 0
> Socket status: 30000020
> PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:13.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try
> pci=usepirqmask PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device
> 0000:00:13.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. Yenta: CardBus bridge found at
> 0000:00:13.1 [1179:0001]
> Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 0
> Socket status: 30000020
> Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:01:00.0. 
> Please try using pci=biosirq.
This is your clue.  Try using pci=biosirq and the problem should go away.

David 
> eth0: could not install IRQ handler 
> prism54: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -5
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris