Re: [Etherboot-developers] Wireless [D-LINK 520] problems

[Markus G. <ma...@gu...>]

Boris Reisig wrote:
> I purchased the D-Link DWL-520 and a Linksys Wireless AP/Cable/dsl 
> router and it somewhat works. I am having problems with the following.

You are using very new code here, and it is quite possible that you'll 
still encounter some issues. The Prism driver has been contributed by 
Michael Brown <mb...@fe...>. You might want to ask him for help.

> 1) I can't seem to put the Prism2 drivers into my award bios. I have 
> done it with the realtek 8139 drivers and put it on the bios on the same 
> computer and it works flawless. The prism drivers wont boot at all if I 
> put it into the bios. Is their another way to have the DLink cards 
> booting up without having an image into the bios?

At LinuxExpo, we loaded the driver both from floppy and from within a 
Realtek RTL8139 that we abused as being the world's cheapest EPROM 
holder ;-)

I can't see any good reason why you wouldn't be able to put the driver 
into your system BIOS (other, than maybe its size), since it will be 
uncompressed into RAM before execution anyways. Maybe, somebody else has 
an idea why this would cause problems.

What exactly are the symptoms anyway? Do you fail to be able to add it 
to the system BIOS, or does it fail to execute? Or maybe, it executes 
and then doesn't work properly?

> 2) It starts loading the image but it seems after about 20+mbs of 
> loading, The following errors occur and it wont recover. I have to hit 
> the ESCAPE key and then it trys reloading the image again but does the 
> same thing over and over but at different spots. Here are the errors.
>  
> Hfa384x: Tx FID allocate command failed: Aborting Transmit.
> Hfa384x: Tx FID allocate command failed: Aborting Transmit.
> Copy_form_bap(0x0282,0x003c,86) failed. Result=0x403c
> Copy_form_bap(0x0282,0x003c,86) failed. Result=0x403c
> Copy_form_bap(0x0282,0x003c,226) failed. Result=0x403c

The image that we booted at LinuxExpo was considerably smaller than this 
(just a kernel and the LTSP initial ram disk). So, I am afraid I won't 
be able to be of much help.


Markus