FC2 wireless config without ndiswrapper

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:43:41 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Wy wife bought herself a new machine. She wants to run Linux so of
> course she got me involved. We have FC2 installed and the wired
> interface working so I am writing this email from her new box.
> 
>    lspci shows the following device:
> 
> 01:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
> chipset (rev 01)
> 
> This is another DWL-520 like in my son's FC2 machine, but it's a
> different controller. His 520 uses a Realtek 802.11b controller. So
> much for getting a card by model number...
> 
>    Anyway, kudzu recognized the controller and installed a driver.
> When it's modprobed I see the following in dmesg.
> 
> orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
> orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> &
> Jean Tourrilh es <jt at hpl.hp.com>)
> Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:01:02.0, mem:0xF2000000 to
> 0xF2000FFF  -> 0x2201e000, irq:10
> Reset done......................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ......................;
> Clear Reset.....................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ................................................................................
> ....................................;
> pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - 18197 - 17FA3
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
> hermes @ MEM 0x2201e000: Timeout waiting for card to reset (reg=0x0000)!
> eth1: failed to initialize firmware (err = -110)
> divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
> eth1: Failed to register net device
> orinoco_pci: probe of 0000:01:02.0 failed with error -110
> [root at localhost root]#
> 
> Not good. I tried switching to ndiswrapper but the machine hangs
> totally and I have to pull the power plug when I modprobe that driver,
> so no ndiswrapper right now.
> 
> Either way I've copied the config script from my son's machine to this
> machine and changed the IP address and hardware address to match the
> card, but I don't think I'm getting that far.
> 
> My question is what is this driver that's getting installed? Is this a
> native Linux driver? Does anyone know what it's complaining about
> here?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

I have tried a whole rash of boot options - noacpi, noapic, noapmd
along with changing the slot the card is plugged into. So far always
the same results.

- Mark