Bug 63432
| Summary: | wvlan_cs: D-Link Air DWL-650 stops being recognized after being used in WinXP. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Aleksey Nogin <aleksey> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-04-13 19:25:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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ok patch added; thanks Are you sure that just applying my patch is sufficient? Sure, this patch is a workaround, but it just assumes that the card indeed has "Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1" and while this is definitely a better guess than "0-0-0-0-0", is it the right one? Anyway, this is not really my machine and my card, so I can not test it much, but as soon as I get a chance, I'll let you know how it works with rawhide kernels, what happens if I use the orinoco driver instead, etc. I've got the same card and the same problems, so I can test the fixes. |
I have a D-Link Air DWL-650 wireless card and I've been succesfully using is with RH7.2 (up to kernel-2.4.9-31) without any problems. A few weeks ago I loaned it to a friend to use with WinXP. To my surprise, after he gave it back to me, it would no longer work properly! Specifically, it would no longer let me set essid in ad-hoc mode. I have noticed that the kernel log messages started reporting different firmware vendor number and after updating the driver to recognize the new number, I managed to get it working again. Kernel messages before WinXP (unpatched kernel-2.4.9-31): Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine cardmgr[875]: initializing socket 0 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine cardmgr[875]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine cardmgr[875]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs' Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy.de> Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine cardmgr[875]: executing: './network start eth1' Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth1 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05 5d f1 c3 b0 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-( Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: You may want report firmare revision (0x8) and what the card support. Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: I will try to make it work, but you should look for a better driver. Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8 (vendor 2) - Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05 5d f1 c3 b0 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-( Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: You may want report firmare revision (0x8) and what the card support. Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: I will try to make it work, but you should look for a better driver. Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8 (vendor 2) - Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1 Mar 22 10:25:20 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mar 22 10:25:21 Clementine /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1 Kernel messages after card was used in WinXP (unpatched kernel-2.4.9-31): Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine cardmgr[875]: initializing socket 0 Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine cardmgr[875]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine cardmgr[875]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs' Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6 Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy.de> Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f Mar29 19:57:50 Clementine cardmgr[875]: executing: './network start eth1' Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth1 Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05 5d f1 c3 b0 Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Unrecognised card, card return vendor = 0x0004, please report... Mar 29 19:57:50 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x10003 (vendor 4) - Firmware capabilities : 0-0-0-0-0 Mar 29 19:57:51 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05 5d f1 c3 b0 Mar 29 19:57:51 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Unrecognised card, card return vendor = 0x0004, please report... Mar 29 19:57:51 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x10003 (vendor 4) - Firmware capabilities : 0-0-0-0-0 Mar 29 19:57:51 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This firmware doesn't support ``port_type=3'', please use iwconfig. Mar 29 19:57:51 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Initialization failed! Mar 29 19:57:51 Clementine /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1 I made the following change to wvlan_cs.c: --- wvlan_cs.c.orig Tue Feb 26 05:50:48 2002 +++ wvlan_cs.c Sat Mar 30 13:00:08 2002 @@ -1077,6 +1077,7 @@ /* Tested CableTron 4.32 - Anton */ break; case 0x2: + case 0x4: case 0x6: /* This is a PrismII card. It is is *very* similar * to the Lucent, and the driver work 95%, Kernel messages after that: Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine cardmgr[874]: initializing socket 0 Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine cardmgr[874]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine cardmgr[874]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs' Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6 Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy.de> Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth1 Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05 5d f1 c3 b0 Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-( Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: You may want report firmare revision (0x10003) and what the card support. Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: I will try to make it work, but you should look for a better driver. Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x10003 (vendor 4) - Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1 Mar 30 14:10:06 Clementine cardmgr[874]: executing: './network start eth1' Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05 5d f1 c3 b0 Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-( Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine kernel: You may want report firmare revision (0x10003) and what the card support. Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine kernel: I will try to make it work, but you should look for a better driver. Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x10003 (vendor 4) - Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1 Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mar 30 14:10:07 Clementine /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1 "cardctl ident" currently (e.g. after WinXP) shows: Socket 0: product info: "D", "Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card", "Version 01.02", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network) P.S. See also bug 56973 that I filed on this "This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-(" warning.