Re: [Madwifi-users] Problems installing madwifi driver

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This is a stab at the dark as to what your problem is.  I am only
commenting because I had a similar problem with my laptop.  The real
basic rundown is that the bios reserves memory ranges too small to be
used, and the yenta_socket driver module blindly accepts them.  This has
been a problem since 2.4 when it was said the problem would be fixed in
2.6.  Now that 2.6 is hear, we are just finally coming to some
resolution.

The official bugzilla bug is here.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1840

Just recently a more acceptable patch to the kernel has been worked out.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/15/90

this sets up a kernel module parameter that can be used to override the
bios assigned memory ranges for your Cardbus devices.  I am currently
using this patch with good results.

I use Fedora Core 2 so I have edited /etc/syconfig/pcmcia and added

PCIC_OPTS=3D"override_bios=3D1"

This might have absolutely nothing to do with your problem, but I
figured I would throw it out as a solution.  If you would like to send
me the contents of /proc/iomem I can probably give you a more definitive
answer.

-Jon

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:57 +0100, Ruben Cuevas Rumin wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm installing madwifi driver. I have a PCCard Netgear-WG511T with 5212
> AR chipset and I'm using kernel 2.6.3.
> I have build the driver correctly and executed "make"and "make install"
> and ath_pci.ko, wlan.ko and ath_hal.ko modules have appeared in
> /lib/modules/2.6.3-wlan/net/.=20
> If I execute lsmod I will obtain the following response:
> .
> .
> .
> ath_pci                36900  0
> wlan                   57640  1 ath_pci
> ath_hal               127440  1 ath_pci
> ds                     11652  4
> yenta_socket           14720  1
> pcmcia_core            61280  2 ds,yenta_socket
> .
> .
> .
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> But interface ath0 doesn't appear in any way. The kernel messages
> obtained when I execute "dmesg" are the following:
> .
> .
> .
> CI: Failed to allocate resource 0(e9010000-e900afff) for 0000:07:00.0
> cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x200-0x207
> 0x290-0x297 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x3f8-0x3ff
> 0x4d0-0x4d7
> cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> ath_hal: 0.9.8.6
> wlan: 0.7.3.1 BETA
> ath_pci: 0.8.5.5 BETA
> ath_pci: 0.8.5.5 BETA
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:07:00.0 (0001 -> 0003)
> ath_pci: cache line size not set; forcing 32
> ath_pci: cannot reserve PCI memory region
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:06.0
> .
> .
> .
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> I wonder if anyone could help me.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Best regards,
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>                 Ruben Cuevas Rum=C3=ADn.    =20
>                 Departamento de Ingenieria Telem=C3=A1tica, UC3M.
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