Bug 56973 - wvlan_cs: "This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-("
Summary: wvlan_cs: "This is a PrismII card, not a Wavelan IEEE card :-("
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-01 19:39 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-06-07 23:05:47 UTC
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2001-12-01 19:39:30 UTC
I am getting the following from the  wvlan_cs driver:

Dec  1 13:41:31 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
Dec  1 13:41:31 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus
<andy.de>
Dec  1 13:41:31 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f
Dec  1 13:41:31 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth1
Dec  1 13:41:31 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05
5d f1 c3 b0
Dec  1 13:41:32 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a
Wavelan IEEE card :-(
Dec  1 13:41:32 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8 (vendor 2)
- Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1
Dec  1 13:41:33 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 05
5d f1 c3 b0
Dec  1 13:41:33 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a
Wavelan IEEE card :-(
Dec  1 13:41:33 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8 (vendor 2)
- Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1
Dec  1 13:41:33 Clementine kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11

Despite this warning making it sound like the driver is not expected to
work, the card works just fine with this driver. Should the warning still
be there?

The card is "D-Link Air DWL-650".

I saw this on RH 7.2 both with 2.4.7-10 and 2.4.9-13

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2002-04-13 19:26:45 UTC
See also bug 63432 on more problems with wvlan_cs and this card (after it was
used under WinXP).

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2003-06-07 23:05:47 UTC
Prism cards are now handled much better by the orinoco driver



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