[Aironet] Bad MAC

[Morgan Collins <morcant@ya...>]

I'm having some difficulty with the 1.1 linux drivers.
I have 2 cards that worked perfectly with the .9zz drivers and 2.2.16
kernel, however in different machines with the new driver and 2.2.17 I get
the following error...

airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
airo: Doing fast bap_reads
airo: Bad MAC enable reason = 85, rid = ff10, offset = 16
airo: MAC could not be enabled
airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters

and there is nothing in /proc/aironet/

This happens with both 1.1 and 1.1a

Has anyone run across this?

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Morgan Collins
InCommand Interactive
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Re: [Aironet] unknown status code 0x800

[R. Benjamin Shapiro <bshapiro@uc...>]

What about those of us who actually have 340 series products? Shouldn't the
340 firmware work fine? I have gotten 0x800 messages on my 340 Series PC
Card with 3.98 too.

Ben

Sang Yu writes:

> Dear Douglas,
> 
> Currently it happens when using firmware version PC340V39x.img
> because there are something different between 4800 series and 340 series.
> I do not know what differences are. but you can solve the problem by
> downgrading the firmware to old version such as PC48v38x.img
> 
> Regards,
> Sang

Re: [Aironet] unknown status code 0x800

[Benjamin Reed/Almaden/IBM <breed@al...>]

I have uploaded airo.c1.1a that "fixes" the problem.  Basically I just
ignore the flag.  I would love to find out what it means, but I've had
reports that just ignoring it seems to work.  Hopefully the patch will
appear in the next pcmcia rev.

ben


"Sang Yu" <sang@...>@csl.cse.ucsc.edu on 09/14/2000 03:21:04
AM

Please respond to "Sang Yu" <sang@...>

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Subject:  [Aironet] unknown status code 0x800




Dear Douglas,

Currently it happens when using firmware version PC340V39x.img
because there are something different between 4800 series and 340  series.
I do not know what differences are. but you can solve the problem by
downgrading the firmware to old version such as PC48v38x.img

Regards,
Sang

[Aironet] unknown status code 0x800

[Sang Yu <sang@so...>]

Dear Douglas,

Currently it happens when using firmware version PC340V39x.img
because there are something different between 4800 series and 340 series.
I do not know what differences are. but you can solve the problem by
downgrading the firmware to old version such as PC48v38x.img

Regards,
Sang

Re: [Aironet] New Driver/Old HW

[Torkil Zachariassen <torkil@he...>]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Bernhard 'Gustl' Bauer wrote:

> Has any body else problems with this new driver? 

Running a RH-6.2 system, and a PCI4800 card I wanted to try the
new driver, but could not get it to compile cleanly in any way.

As I found a pcmcia-cs tar ball with a version 1.0 of airo.c,
I upgraded that whole thing like this,

  tar xvzf pcmcia-cs-3.1.20.tar.gz                            && \
  cp -f airo-1.1.c pcmcia-cs-3.1.20/wireless/airo.c           && \
  cd pcmcia-cs-3.1.20                                         && \
  make oldconfig                                              && \
  make all                                                    && \
  make install                                                && \
  echo The version of the airo.o module is now                && \
  strings  /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/airo.o | grep Reed  && \
  echo done.

Ignoring not relevant warnings from smc91c92_cs.c, netwave_cs.c 
this worked out cleanly.

The compile command turned out to be:
  cc   -MD -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -I../include \
    -I/usr/src/linux/include  -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -c airo.c 

Repeating that in the wireless directory, using -O2 gave a warning though:

    airo.c:1048: warning: isable_MAC' defined but not used


...torkil...