I'm using a 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g PC Card, model 3CRWE154G72, in my old laptop, which runs Slackware-current, with the testing (2.6.17) kernel. I bought this card about five months ago, based on it's use of the prism54 drivers & it has worked well since I installed it. Early last week, I upgraded the laptop to the most recent version of -current & the card quit working. Here are the applicable messages.
During startup, I get:
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Starting PCMCIA Services:
cardmgr[2155]: watching 2 sockets
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Timer expired
/etc/rc.d/rc.M: eth0 is 'Fill with your own settings..'
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dmesg has the following two snips:
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1217:6833]
Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: ee/00
Yenta O2: old bridge, disabling read prefetch/write burst
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000829
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) ->
IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.1 [1217:6833]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000007
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
agpgart: Detected ALi M1541 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect break
age unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/util...ia/pcmcia.html for
details.
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and
Quote:
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
11
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 
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There have been a number of changes in the pcmcia packages for -current this week. I installed all of them this afternoon, hoping. The only change was that now both the link & activity leds are on, whereas before today, they had both been off.
I'm a little confused by the two snips above, in that one indicates software problems & the other, hardware. I will investigate both, but if anyone can provide me with a shortcut or two, I would appreciate it.
Regards,
Bill
