[Acx100-devel] [ acx100-Bugs-922976 ] DWL-650+ firmware upload failure: RAM timing?

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Bugs item #922976, was opened at 2004-03-25 09:44
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Simon Barbey (sibarbey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: DWL-650+ firmware upload failure: RAM timing?

Initial Comment:
Hi !

Hum.. I got some strange errors when I tried to install
the module..

Some information about my computer :
- Dist : Red Hat 9 with all updates..
- Kernel : 2.4.20-30.9
- insmod : 2.4.22

- firmware : dwl650+_drivers_307 (from DLINK support
site..)
- acx : acx100-0.2.0pre7

I proceeded like this :
1) downloaded your driver
2) downloading the firmware
3) uncompressed all
4) copied the WLANGEN.bin, RADIO0d.BIN, RADIO11.BIN
into the firmware dir.. Renamed WLANGEN.bin into
WLANGEN.BIN
5) executed the ./Configure script (because make config
didnt work..)

Output :
>Kernel version file:
>/lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9/build/include/linux/version.h
>Kernel configuration file:
/lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9/build/.config
>Make damn sure these really match your currently
running kernel!!
>
>Unable to find kernel configuration -> unable to
perform sanity checks
>Make sure your kernel has the required options
enabled, see README

6) executed make.. No error, then I supposed it
compiled right..
7) executed insmod -v /usr/acx100/src/acx100_pci.o
firmware_dir=/usr/acx100/firmware

Output :
>Using /usr/acx100/src/acx100_pci.o
>Symbol version prefix &#039;&#039;
>/usr/acx100/src/acx100_pci.o: init_module: No such device
>Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module
parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>      You may find more information in syslog or the
output from dmesg

8) executed dmesg.. I got 3 (or 2) different kind of
error.. (see fill attached..)

Hint : Time to Time, this (CENSORED) card doesnt work
with windows XP too.. It saied No enough ressources to
start it.. (Code 12..) and so on...

Maybe my card is defficient.. 

Please help me ! :-)

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>Comment By: Andreas Mohr (andim2)
Date: 2004-03-30 18:07

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Hmm, another one, with even more severe firmware upload
issues than last time.
Maybe your card uses problematic RAM (problematic timing or so).
You could try playing with CardBus socket module timing
parameters (some CardBus modules have parameters, visible
via modinfo).
I could try to make firmware upload even more militarized ;-)
(last time I improved it a lot, but it seems even that is
not enough in your problematic case)
Are you interested in doing some further testing? I might
want to change the code a bit to try even a bit harder...

Hmm, or maybe we shouldn't use manual increment in your case.
Please change NO_AUTO_INCREMENT to 0 in src/acx100_helper.c
and report whether that helps. If it does, then we should
retry on failure by using auto increment next time.

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Comment By: The Phantom (thephantom1492)
Date: 2004-03-25 23:31

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I'ld start to check if you have "Plug and play OS" in the bios..
set it to no.. if you don't I don't know...

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Comment By: Simon Barbey (sibarbey)
Date: 2004-03-25 11:20

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It seems that 9 devices use the same IRQ 11.. :(

I am a newbie to Linux and hardware.. Then I dont see how to
assign e different IRQ.. Could u please explain me how to do
that or maybe give me some web resources..? :)

Thx a lot !

PS : I attached the result of lspci -vv

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Comment By: The Phantom (thephantom1492)
Date: 2004-03-25 10:38

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I suspect a defective card since it don't work well on
windows...
or maybe you have some irq conflict... I suggest that you
check your irq and be sure that none is used by more than 4
devices... ideally 1...

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Comment By: Simon Barbey (sibarbey)
Date: 2004-03-25 09:46

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Hum.. Attachement doesnt work.. Sorry..

Retrying..

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