Bug 33712 – Prism2 support breaks with pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 and newer gentoo kernels

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2003-11-17 15:39:15 UTC]

I have a wlan card with an Intersil Prism2 chip on, which uses the orinoco driver.

I use the drivers in pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.

When I compile pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 against 2.4.20-gentoo-r2, everything works like a charm, but in 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 and -r8, the driver no longer detects the card.

pcmcia-cs loads the orinoco_cs driver, but no interface is brought up, and the hardware is not initialised.

I tried manually upgrading the orinoco patch to 0.13e, with no luck.

So, apparently something has happened kernel-side between -r2 and -r7 that made it break. If memory serves, that's probably why I didn't upgrade to -r5.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-12-02 21:29:45 UTC]

*** Bug 33711 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2003-12-05 08:20:56 UTC]

These work: 
gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r1 + pcmcia-cs-3.2.4
gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2 + pcmcia-cs-3.2.4
These do not work:
gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5,6,7,8 + pcmcia-cs-3.2.4

[Comment 3 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2004-01-16 15:25:07 UTC]

This works
gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r2 and pcmcia-cs-3.2.5
gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r2 and pcmcia-cs-3.2.5 and hostap-driver (any)

This doesn't work:
gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 and pcmcia-cs-3.2.5
gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 and pcmcia-cs-3.2.5 and hostap-driver (any)


What's up this this arbitrary breaking anyway? I am the only one in the entire world experiencing this?

Cardctl reports the card to exist, but the drivers are not able to initialise it. They load, but don't detect the card.

[Comment 4 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-02-11 22:28:14 UTC]

Okay, as karl was the only guy exhibiting this exact problem, and i talked him through getting it working using 2.6, i'm gonna close this, wishing i had a CLOSED-FREAKACCIDENT qualification to closing it.... glad it's working karl.