kernel issue with Belkin ATMEL PCMCIA wireless card??
Hi,
I am having some difficulties on one of my Debian Thinkpads with my
Belkin wireless PCMCIA card (manfid: 0x01bf, 0x3302), and thought I
would post the issue to this list before issuing a bug report. Perhaps
it is a configuration issue.
On my a21m I have had the card working for a long time, save for kernel
2.6.15 which inexplicably did not work. Now with 2.6.16 the card is
back and running again, with no configuration changes by me.
So now I am trying to get the Belkin card working on my 600e and kernel
2.6.17. I have tried to make the configuration the same on both
machines, though both have a roll-my-own kernel and there are
substantial kernel differences.
The behavior I am seeing on the 600e is that the modules seem to load
fine and produce no errors. But DHCP times out cannot successfully get
an IP. I have another wireless card that works just fine on this 600e,
so I think the problem lies within the kernel.
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On the 600e (which does not work) I see the following:
$ uname -r: 2.6.17-tp600e.7
/var/log/syslog:
kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
kernel: eth0: Atmel at76c50x. Version 0.98. MAC 00:30:bd:d0:16:d0
$ cat /proc/driver/atmel
Driver version: 0.98
Firmware version: 4.1 build 13
Firmware location: atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin loaded by hotplug
MAC memory type: EEPROM
Regulatory domain: USA
Host CRC checking: Off
WPA-capable firmware: Yes
Current state: Scanning
$ lsmod | grep atmel
atmel_cs 7488 1
atmel 31844 1 atmel_cs
pcmcia 34308 5 atmel_cs
firmware_class 9568 2 atmel,pcmcia
crc32 4224 2 atmel,pcmcia
pcmcia_core 37584 4
atmel_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
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On the a21m (which does work) I am seeing:
# uname -r: 2.6.16-a21m.19
/var/log/syslog:
kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
cardmgr[2441]: socket 0: Belkin F5D6020ver2 with ATMEL chipset
kernel: eth1: Atmel at76c50x. Version 0.98. MAC 00:30:bd:d0:16:d0
# cat /proc/driver/atmel
Driver version: 0.98
Firmware version: 4.1 build 13
Firmware location: atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin loaded by hotplug
MAC memory type: EEPROM
Regulatory domain: USA
Host CRC checking: Off
WPA-capable firmware: Yes
Current state: Ready
# lsmod | grep atmel
atmel_cs 6240 1
atmel 28676 1 atmel_cs
pcmcia 26900 5 atmel_cs
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A couple noteworthy differences are that the working a21m has fewer
modules loaded, and seems to still be using cardmgr, which I believe is
deprecated but apparently still works better then the new kernel? Both
machines are still using hotplug, no udev.
Any suggestions for resolution would be appreciated.
Clayton
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