Wireless troubles, Cardbus related?

[Guest unreb]

Hi,

 

Im relativly new to Linux, used a bit of RH and FC in the past, but now giving Mandriva a go on a friends recommendation.

 

Im running on a Toshiba A60 laptop, and am having trouble getting a Netgear WG511T (FCC = PY3WG511TV1H3) working, I think its something to do with the cardbus side of things but im not entirely sure.....

 

[root@acer3000 modules]# uname -r
2.6.17-5mdv

Ignore the hostname :) .. thats come from our internal DNS for some reason .... thats something for later.. :)

[root@acer3000 modules]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc R200 AGP Bridge [Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP] (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller (rev 01)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 18)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 434c
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4342
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
[root@acer3000 modules]

 

02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
	Memory at d0001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 90000000-91fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: d2000000-d3fff000
	I/O window 0: 0000a400-0000a4ff
	I/O window 1: 0000a800-0000a8ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

 

I say I think that it is Cardbus related, as when I have an old Psion GoldCard (PCMCIA) plugged in and run pccardctl i get the correct output

[root@acer3000 modules]# pccardctl info
PRODID_1="Psion Dacom"
PRODID_2="Gold Card Global V.34 PC Card"
PRODID_3="V.34+Fax"
PRODID_4="V7.30"
MANFID=016c,0000
FUNCID=2
[root@acer3000 modules]# pccardctl status
Socket 0:
 5.0V 16-bit PC Card
 Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "serial_cs"

 

however when I run it with the Netgear card in i get...

[root@acer3000 modules]# pccardctl info
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
[root@acer3000 modules]# pccardctl status
Socket 0:
 3.3V 32-bit PC Card
[root@acer3000 modules]#

 

[root@acer3000 modules]# lsmod |grep pcmcia
pcmcia				 31948  1 serial_cs
pcmcia_core			34644  4 serial_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
[root@acer3000 modules]#

 

kernel messages ... from inserting the psion GC and then swapping it for the Netgear and back again ....

pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
0.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
0.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pccard: card ejected from slot 0

 

So im guessing it appears that the cardbus device is kind of working, as the pccardctl status does return the 3.3V 32-Bit PC Card, but i dont know why it wouldnt get the product id etc from the pccardctl info??

 

Im using the Linuxant driverloader and the XP drivers from the CD, and the status there says "It seems that your device is either not present or not supported by the installed driver(s)." ... Im guessing it is due to the hardware not being seen properly ??

 

I hope that helps :) ... Seem like quite a long post.....this just seems to be the things other people have requested on forums I have come across.... Any help on this will be appreciated... its driving me mad :) ....

 

If theres any other info that will help pls let me know and ill post it straight away :) ....

 

--Unreb

Edited January 12, 2007 by unreb