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Audrius Verseckas

18 Apr 2006 18 Apr '06

19:55

Hi, standard Suse 10.1 installation, have SMC2802W 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card. System seems to recognise card but when I start it I get: eth1 device: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) eth1 configuration: wlan-bus-pci-000:01:06.0 eth1 is controlled by ifplugd SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Cannot enable interface eth1 interface eth1 is not up I see on Google that other have same error but can not find any understandable solution to that. Maybe this list could help me... Thank you. Audrius

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Tim Harper

18 Apr 18 Apr

20:10

New subject: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 RC1 - Wireless PCI card - can not enable it and get it up

If its named eth1, its likely not configured properly. Try reconfiguring it with YAST, under the network card configuration component? Delete the configuration for eth1, and create a new wireless one. Under the hardware selection dialog, if you're card isn't listed as being supported, you'll have to install ndiswrapper, and then install the windows driver (which is what I had to do). Tim On Tuesday 18 April 2006 13:55, Audrius Verseckas wrote:

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Hi,

standard Suse 10.1 installation, have SMC2802W 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card. System seems to recognise card but when I start it I get:

eth1 device: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) eth1 configuration: wlan-bus-pci-000:01:06.0 eth1 is controlled by ifplugd

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Cannot enable interface eth1 interface eth1 is not up

I see on Google that other have same error but can not find any understandable solution to that. Maybe this list could help me...

Thank you.

Audrius

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Audrius Verseckas

21:03

New subject: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 RC1 - Wireless PCI card - can not enable it and get it up

On 4/18/06, Tim Harper wrote:

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If its named eth1, its likely not configured properly.

Try reconfiguring it with YAST, under the network card configuration component? Delete the configuration for eth1, and create a new wireless one. Under the hardware selection dialog, if you're card isn't listed as being supported, you'll have to install ndiswrapper, and then install the windows driver (which is what I had to do).

I do not think so... System detects card correctly... only can not get it up... And I think because of not correct firmware... I found on http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/ site that if I have a PCI softmac card (and it seems that my SMC2802W V2 is) I have to put special firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ But I cannot find such dir in Suse 10.1... Maybe someone could point me where I have to put it? Audrius

Audrius Verseckas

21:38

New subject: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 RC1 - Wireless PCI card - can not enable it and get it up

On 4/19/06, Audrius Verseckas wrote:

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On 4/18/06, Tim Harper wrote:

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If its named eth1, its likely not configured properly.

Try reconfiguring it with YAST, under the network card configuration component? Delete the configuration for eth1, and create a new wireless one. Under the hardware selection dialog, if you're card isn't listed as being supported, you'll have to install ndiswrapper, and then install the windows driver (which is what I had to do).

I do not think so... System detects card correctly... only can not get it up... And I think because of not correct firmware...

I found on http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/ site that if I have a PCI softmac card (and it seems that my SMC2802W V2 is) I have to put special firmware in

/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

But I cannot find such dir in Suse 10.1... Maybe someone could point me where I have to put it?

dmesg shows me: eth1: resetting device... eth1: uploading firmware... prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') eth1: islpci_reset: failure Why Suse is trying to load 'isl3890'? I think that my card is 'isl3886'. Is there a wireless guru here which could tel me how can I identify my card? It looks like this: http://heureka.inf.elte.hu/home/vlsoft/smc/SMC2802W_front.jpg http://heureka.inf.elte.hu/home/vlsoft/smc/SMC2802W_back_nomac.jpg Audrius

Tim Harper

22:03

New subject: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 RC1 - Wireless PCI card - can not enable it and get it up

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 15:38, Audrius Verseckas wrote:

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Is there a wireless guru here which could tel me how can I identify my card? It looks like this: I'm not a wireless guru, but here's what i can tell you:

as root, type lspci, then look for your card in the list. that will tell you quite a bit about your card. I'm sorry to say this, but it appears that Suse is not detecting your wireless card my friend. here's some good reading material for you http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=1735&cat=152 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ tim

Craig Millar

23:13

On 19/04/06 00:03 +0300, Audrius Verseckas wrote:

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I found on http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/ site that if I have a PCI softmac card (and it seems that my SMC2802W V2 is) I have to put special firmware in

/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

But I cannot find such dir in Suse 10.1... Maybe someone could point me where I have to put it?

Your firmware directory should be indicated in the variable FIRMWARE_DIRS in the /sbin/udev.firmware.sh script. Probably /lib/firmware hth Craig

Audrius Verseckas

19 Apr 19 Apr

19:36

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Suse 10.1 RC1 - Wireless PCI card - can not enable it and get it up

On 4/19/06, Craig Millar wrote:

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On 19/04/06 00:03 +0300, Audrius Verseckas wrote:

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I found on http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/ site that if I have a PCI softmac card (and it seems that my SMC2802W V2 is) I have to put special firmware in

/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

But I cannot find such dir in Suse 10.1... Maybe someone could point me where I have to put it?

Your firmware directory should be indicated in the variable FIRMWARE_DIRS in the /sbin/udev.firmware.sh script. Probably /lib/firmware

Thank you Craig. I found this. I loaded firmware file. But now dmesg shows: eth0: resetting device... eth0: uploading firmware... eth0: firmware version: 1.0.4.3 eth0: firmware upload complete eth0: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying eth0: no 'reset complete' IRQ seen - retrying eth0: interface reset failure prism54: Your card/socket may be faulty, or IRQ line too busy :( And no mater what firmware I put there I get virtually same error... Could someone point me to ndiswrapper way... :-) ? Audrius

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