PCMCIA and orinoco card

[TLGFrohike]

This is a long story but I am exhausted

I have an IBM T30 Laptop. Gentoo 2005.1 Kernel 2.6.12
PCMCIA BUs is a TI 1520
It has two built-in network adapters. eth0 - Ethernet Intel 10/100(works fine) and a Prizm wireless card(internal)
But the Intel card is two things, one it only support 802.11b and does not support WPA. My home wireless is setup
as WPA and I will not change that. The card I am tring to use in a pcmcia slot is a Proxim Orinoco 11b/g Gold card.
I CAN NOT get it to work!
I have tried installing pcmcia-cs
I have installed the "Bus drivers" into the kernel and then tried them as modules.
I removed pcmcia-cs to see if it was conflicting
I have installed coldplug and hotplug
I have emerged orinoco
I have used the hermes wireless networking drivers built into the kernel and as modules

Sometimes when I put the card into the pcmcia slot, it will freeze the entire system until I eject it.
When I run cardmgr it gives me an error that the slot is busy. (I have researched the error with no luck)
I can run cardctl status and it gives me that the slot the card is in... is in use.
I "cat /var/run/stab" and it shows both slots are empty
I run dmesg CardBus card inserted
I run lspci Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC rev 01

Here is my thoughts so far. I think the pcmcia bus is working, because I can get some information from the card
and lspci and dmesg recognize it is there.
I wonder if I am running into a irq conflict because of the existing Wireless card in the computer. I do have
the ablity to remove it temporarly.
I do not know how coldplug and hotplug should used here but from what I understand coldplug is used at startup and
hotplug while the system is up and running.

Any help is appreicated. Thanks in advance and if you need more information let me know I will be watching this closely.
Since I am not sure if this should be under networking or Kernel & hardware support. I will post in both and will see
if an admin removes one.

[Pithlit]

Atheros chipsets are supported by madwifi drivers. It would be nice if you can provide a full product ID.

Gold card; 152-bit WEP; ext. ant. connector; is fully supported (11g - ID: 8470)
Silver card; 152-bit WEP; ext. ant. connector; is partally supported (11g - ID: 8471)
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[TLGFrohike]

I have a proxim Gold card
Model 8470-FC
802.11 b/g

I will attempt to use the madwifi drivers
Does anything seem wrong with pcmcia hardware?

[TLGFrohike]

Just to add to my IRQ theory. When the modules are loaded for the PCMCIA bus and wireless card it displays a " - " instead of a # for the used by field. This when an lsmod is performed.

[Pithlit]

[TLGFrohike]

ASK and he shall receive


DMESG


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lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.16.0 20050311 on minor 0: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=18300 from BIOS
radeonfb: probed DDR SGRAM 16384k videoram
radeon_get_moninfo: bios 4 scratch = 1000044
radeonfb: panel ID string: 1024x768
radeonfb: detected DFP panel size from BIOS: 1024x768
radeonfb: ATI Radeon M7 LW DDR SGRAM 16 MB
radeonfb: DVI port LCD monitor connected
radeonfb: CRT port no monitor connected
radeonfb_pci_register END
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (42 C)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
pnp: Device 00:09 activated.
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a NS16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6 -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc, irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.8-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd0200000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:09:6B:50:79:73
orinoco 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_plx 0.14alpha2 (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>)
orinoco_pci 0.14alpha2 (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
orinoco_pci: Detected device 0000:02:02.0, mem:0xf8000000-0xf8000fff, irq 11
eth1: Hardware identity 8013:0000:0001:0000
eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth1: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.3.6
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:05:3C:03:DD:4A
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
orinoco_tmd 0.14alpha2 (Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net>)
airo: Probing for PCI adapters
airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters
Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1860-0x1867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1868-0x186f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x2c6ab1, caps: 0x884793/0x0
serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/7539KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.11 loaded.
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:00.0 [1014:0512]
Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:00.0, mfunc 0x01d21022, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000020
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on synaptics-pt/serio0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:00.1 [1014:0512]
Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:00.1, mfunc 0x01d21022, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
usbmon: debugs is not available
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x00001800
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9rc2 (Thu Mar 24 10:33:39 2005 UTC).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49389 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ALSA device list:
#0: Intel 82801CA-ICH3 with AD1881A at 0x1c00, irq 11
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (7168 buckets, 57344 max) - 220 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
p4-clockmod: Warning: Pentium 4-M detected. The speedstep-ich or acpi cpufreq modules offer voltage scaling in addition of frequency scaling. You should use either one instead of p4-clockmod, if possible.
p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulation available
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID SLPB PCI0 UART PCI1 USB0 USB1 USB2 AC97
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 1466632k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode

[b]LSPCI

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)


Cardctl status

Socket 0:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]
Socket 1:
no card


Cardctl info

PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

/etc/init.d/pcmcia start

#[32;01m*#[0m PCMCIA support detected
#[32;01m*#[0m Starting pcmcia ...
#[A#[73G #[34;01m[ #[32;01mok#[34;01m ]#[0m

modprobe orinoco && lsmod
Module Size Used by
hermes 6080 -

This is what I mean by a " - " under the Used by field
If anyone needs more please let me know?

[TLGFrohike]

Just given this one last chance to stay alive.
I am still hurten and do not want to do some automatic method.

If no one knows the answers please let me know of another forum I might be able to find it.

Thanks


First learn the manual process, then once you have done the work, enjoy the automation!