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bbarrera
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 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject: No IRQ for interrupt pin A (Netgear wag511 wireless card) |
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I'm having problems with Netgear wag511 card (Atheros a/b/g) on Dell Inspiron 4100 notebook. The card works under Win2k (I have interrupt and memory map for the Windows driver). I'm using the latest madwifi (Atheros) drivers.
With Linux kernel 2.4.20 I get the following error:
| Code: | # modprobe wlan
# modprobe ath_hal
# modprobe ath_pci
# dmesg
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wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
ath_hal: 0.9.5.3 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
cs: cb_alloc(bus 7): vendor 0x168c, device 0x0013
ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device .
ath_pci: cache line size not set; forcing 8
ath_pci: cannot reserve PCI memory region
ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device . |
The key error message is the first after "modprobe ath_pci" command issued:
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device .
Appears I have an IRQ problem. The problem is I cannot figure out
how to force INTA for Cardbus slot to something other than IRQ11 (shared
with miniPCI Orinoco card, nvidia driver and some other stuff, see below).
Attempted to fix problem over 5 hours last night:
- tried top (bus 7) and bottom (bus 3) Cardbus slots in notebook
- cannot disable PNP OS in Dell notebook's BIOS settings
- pass kernel option pci=biosirq at boot (no effect)
- set CORE_OPTS to cb_pci_irq=10 (not supported in 2.4 kernels)
- remove hotplug user support (no effect)
- recompile kernel with experimental PCI hotplug support (no effect)
- disable internal miniPCI orinoco card (no effect)
Searching Internet about IRQ settings and couldn't find anything.
From what I gathered IRQ handling is now part of kernel's PCI
support (no control from pcmcia_core), and that hotplug handles Cardbus
devices instead of pcmcia card services.
Any pointers are appreciated.
Some background info:
Kernel 2.4.20
PCMCIA-CS 3.2.4 (standalone, not in kernel)
Madwifi 20030802 (re-release version)
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*** OUTPUT OF DMESG ***
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| Code: | Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.4
kernel build: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 #1 Wed Aug 6 02:51:44 PDT 2003
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] [pnp]
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe2d0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:e2f4, dseg at 40
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.0
TI 1420 rev 00 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 02:01, mem 0x10001000
host opts [0]: [ring] [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/32] [bus 3/6]
host opts [1]: [ring] [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/32] [bus 7/10]
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,9,10 PCI status changes
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.6
TI 1410 rev 01 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 02:03, mem 0x10003000
host opts [0]: [pci only] [pci irq 11] [lat 32/176] [bus 11/14]
PCI card interrupts, PCI status changes
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3c0-0x3e7
cs: IO port probe 0x03e8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048
eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:xx:xx:xx
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
ath_hal: 0.9.5.3 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
cs: cb_alloc(bus 7): vendor 0x168c, device 0x0013
ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device .
ath_pci: cache line size not set; forcing 8
ath_pci: cannot reserve PCI memory region
ath_pci: No devices found, driver not installed.
cs: cb_free(bus 7) |
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bbarrera
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:32 am Post subject: |
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Enabled ACPI and that solved IRQ problem.
Also needed to use kernel pcmcia (not standalone). |
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CyberNinja
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Does this card have an external antenna connection?
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Belinus
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:48 am Post subject: |
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No, it doesn't.
I read somewhere on a message board that adding one is a technical violation of FCC rules for the 802.11a side. |
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CyberNinja
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the answer Belinus!
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axses
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:01 am Post subject: |
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You get 54mbit cards running on linux , using the atheros chipset ?
Do you have any changes in pcmcia config files ? I cannot get this card to run
A little howto would be nice  |
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taskara
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:58 am Post subject: |
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anyone know if the WAG511 work with WPA? or only WEP 152bit?
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