Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Jan Elders <jrme@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 00:57, Joe Khamis wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 November 2004 05:36, Jan Elders wrote:
> > This is my 3rd posting of this problem. The previous two got no reaction
> > at all.
> > Can nobody help me ??????
> >
> > This is the problem :
> > I'm trying to use the SMC2835W  802.11g (54Mbps) wireless PCMCIA card
> > with SuSE 9.1, without success. I cannot even give any command to the
> > card; it remains totally dead. (It works under Windows, so the hardware
> > is OK).
> >
> > This card has a PrismGT chip, and I am running the prism54 driver version
> > 1.1 in my SuSe 9.1
> > According to instructions, I downloaded the firmware 1.0.4.3 and
> > installed it in  /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware with the name isl3890 (as
> > instructed).
> >
> > But, when I insert the card in its slot, then I get :
> > eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: PRISM Duette/GT
> > eth1: islpci_open()
> > eth1: resetting device...
> > eth1: uploading firmware...
> > eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
> > eth1: device soft reset timed out
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> >
> > Nothing happens, the led's on the card remain dark and I cannot get to it
> > with any command at all. Apparently the "device soft reset timed out" is
> > the problem, but what can I do about it ???
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>
> G'day Jan,
>
> I purchased the D-Link DWL-G520+ wireless NIC to use on my SuSE 9.1
> Professional.
>
> After much effort and no luck, what worked for me was to visit the
> www.linuxant.com web site and download the Driverloader application.
>
> Once installed (and following the instructions) I could use the WinXP
> drivers that shipped with the card to get it recognised in SuSE.
>
Yes, I also found this solution last week and installed it.
Initially it worked fine indeed (and I was a happy man) but later I 
experienced random system freezes, and had to cut power to restart again.
Sometimes I could work for 5 hours without any problems, but at other times 
the system froze 3 time in an hour. There was no pattern in the freeze 
moments that I could detect.
After deinstalling the Driverloader the freeze problem was gone !
Therefore I am back at deparately trying to get a solution for the "device 
soft reset timed out" problem as mentioned above. 

I'm still begging for help.   :-(

-- 
Jan Elders
the Netherlands
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