Hi, I am having some difficulties on one of my Debian Thinkpads with my Belkin wireless PCMCIA card (manfid: 0x01bf, 0x3302), and thought I would post the issue to this list before issuing a bug report. Perhaps it is a configuration issue.
On my a21m I have had the card working for a long time, save for kernel 2.6.15 which inexplicably did not work. Now with 2.6.16 the card is back and running again, with no configuration changes by me. So now I am trying to get the Belkin card working on my 600e and kernel 2.6.17. I have tried to make the configuration the same on both machines, though both have a roll-my-own kernel and there are substantial kernel differences. The behavior I am seeing on the 600e is that the modules seem to load fine and produce no errors. But DHCP times out cannot successfully get an IP. I have another wireless card that works just fine on this 600e, so I think the problem lies within the kernel. -------------------------------------- On the 600e (which does not work) I see the following: $ uname -r: 2.6.17-tp600e.7 /var/log/syslog: kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 kernel: eth0: Atmel at76c50x. Version 0.98. MAC 00:30:bd:d0:16:d0 $ cat /proc/driver/atmel Driver version: 0.98 Firmware version: 4.1 build 13 Firmware location: atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin loaded by hotplug MAC memory type: EEPROM Regulatory domain: USA Host CRC checking: Off WPA-capable firmware: Yes Current state: Scanning $ lsmod | grep atmel atmel_cs 7488 1 atmel 31844 1 atmel_cs pcmcia 34308 5 atmel_cs firmware_class 9568 2 atmel,pcmcia crc32 4224 2 atmel,pcmcia pcmcia_core 37584 4 atmel_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ---------------------------------------------------- On the a21m (which does work) I am seeing: # uname -r: 2.6.16-a21m.19 /var/log/syslog: kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 cardmgr[2441]: socket 0: Belkin F5D6020ver2 with ATMEL chipset kernel: eth1: Atmel at76c50x. Version 0.98. MAC 00:30:bd:d0:16:d0 # cat /proc/driver/atmel Driver version: 0.98 Firmware version: 4.1 build 13 Firmware location: atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin loaded by hotplug MAC memory type: EEPROM Regulatory domain: USA Host CRC checking: Off WPA-capable firmware: Yes Current state: Ready # lsmod | grep atmel atmel_cs 6240 1 atmel 28676 1 atmel_cs pcmcia 26900 5 atmel_cs ------------------------------------------------------- A couple noteworthy differences are that the working a21m has fewer modules loaded, and seems to still be using cardmgr, which I believe is deprecated but apparently still works better then the new kernel? Both machines are still using hotplug, no udev. Any suggestions for resolution would be appreciated. Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
