When I boot my laptop with my prism54 card inserted, it upload the firmware to the card, and it doesn't start. I then have to remove and insert the card a few times before it sees it, and upload the firmware and start the card. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X 11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://192.168.3.1/portage http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_DK.utf8" LC_ALL="en_DK.utf8" LINGUAS="da en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gurlinet.dk/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cgi chroot cli crypt cups dlloader esd fam flac gd gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardened idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg libwww mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib pear perl pic png pnp python readline samba sdl session spell sqlite sse ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vhosts vim vorbis wifi xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_da linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Here is what gets printed to dmesg after I remove the card after booting and inserting it again: eth0: hot unplug detected eth0: removing device ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [PILB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 eth0: resetting device... eth0: uploading firmware... eth0: firmware version: 1.0.4.3 eth0: firmware upload complete eth0: interface reset complete eth0: prism54_set_txpower() auto power will be implemented later. eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Is you prism54 driver compiled as a module? or statically linked into the kernel? What does the error message for the failed loading of the firmware say? Please attach your kernel .config file.
It doesn't try to load the firmware until I have tried a few times. It's like the system doesn't see the card before that. The driver is compiled into the kernel (not as a module), and I'm using pcmciautils with coldplug. (btw. coldplug doesn't like when you don't have modules support enabled, but pcmciautils requires coldplug, so coldplug should be fixed so it doesn't complain if the modules isn't activated) Here is my .config .
Created attachment 71816 [details] My kernel config
