Help! Sandisk Wi-fi + 128mb Card Not Working

[leo20w]

I just got Scandisk Connect plus and try to make it working on my C860 runing Cacko 1.22.  I loaded pm 010101.hex in /etc/pcmcia/firmware.  But When I run

prism2_srec -gs wlan0 /etc/pcmcia/firmware/PM010101.hex

It said:

Fail to open "/proc/net/hostap/wlano/debug' for reading
Incompatible update data

Of course the card is not working.  Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot,

Leo

[leo20w]

After extensive search, I realized that most people made this card working were using OZ3.5.2.  Does anyone make this card work under Cacko1.22 ROM?

Thanks,

Leo

[eviLjazz]

Did you try to run the command with sudo in front, ie. as root user?

[T-RuX]

Hi!
I have this card working very well in OpenZaurus 3.5.3beta in a C3000. I'll reflash for cacko rom (sharp based) and I'll tell you, babi.. jijij
see you.still in contact.

[daiceman]

Hi,

I also had it working in OZ-3.5.3 but now when I put in Cacko ROM the wifi doesn't work.

I'm running C3000, and T-RuX if you get it to work please share your knowledge with us.

I don't know if the hostap drivers aren't working properly. The card is detected by the cardmanager but then nothing else happens. Any ideas?

[WJMoore]

Hi everyone, I have one of the SanDisk ConnectPlus WiFi cards too. I'm trying to get it working on my SL-C3100 with stock Sharp ROM. II spent a significant amount of time last night compiling the required parts of host ap and trying to make it work. I did succeed in getting the three modules to load when the card was inserted but attempting to upload the firmware fails.

This is the relevant dmesg:

hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
hostap_cs: 0.3.9 - 2005-06-10 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0047, io.base=0x0000, len=128
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 135, io 0xf6000000-0xf600007f
wifi0: Multi-function SanDisk ConnectPlus detected - using vendor-specific initialization
hostap_cs: assuming no Primary image in flash - card initialization not completed
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f
prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR 4b
Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 ce a1 ce
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR 4f
Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
wlan0: could not set interface UP - no PRI f/w
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_PM_SUSPEND
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_RESET_PHYSICAL
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c39dfda0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c39dfda0, type=0, cmd=0x0002, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=0000 INTEN=0010)
hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
pxa_pcmcia_suspend(0)
prism2_download: dl_cmd=4 start_addr=0x003f0000 num_areas=3
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
prism2_pccard_cor_sreset failed 1 (29)
Readback test failed, HCR 0x0f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 88 88 88 88
wifi0: Failed to set Genesis mode (sram_type=16)

This is the output in the terminal when trying to upload the firmware:

bash-2.05# prism2_srec -gs wlan0 pm010102.hex
srec summary for pm010102.hex
Included file name: PM010102.HEX
Component: 0x0015 1.1.2 (primary firmware)
 
 
Verifying update compatibility and combining data:
Plugging PDR 0400 (NIC configuration): ram16=1 pci=0 (03 00)
OK.
 
Downloading to volatile memory (RAM).
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_DOWNLOAD]: Input/output error
 
Download failed!

Anyone have any ideas where to go from here?

[dvdrw]

Anyone have any ideas where to go from here?
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it is strange that your hostap driver is receiving a card suspend during initialization.  I've posted one possibility perhaps to explore in this thread:

[a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12567&st=15&p=94951&#entry94951]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...951&#entry94951[/url]

hope this is somewhat helpful!

[daiceman]

Hi,

I've been trying to get the Sandisk Connectplus card to work for some time now... I'm using the Sharp Rom and I've cross compiled hostap-0.3.9, so I have the necessary hostap modules now (hostap.o, hostap_cs.o, hostap_crypt_wep.o). I have followed previous instructions found on this forum and downloaded firmware from http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/ and prism2_srec from https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?act=A...ype=post&id=590 and added the following in /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf

card "SanDisk ConnectPlus"
version "SanDisk", "ConnectPlus"
manfid 0xd601, 0x0101
bind "ide-cs" to 1
bind "hostap_cs" to 0

When I plug in the card cardctl ident gives
Socket 0:
  product info: "SanDisk", "ConnectPlus"
  manfid: 0xd601, 0x0101
  function: 6 (network)

but dmesg doesn't give any output at all...

Needless to say the card isn't working

Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks!

[T-RuX]

daiceman, first of all in hostap_cs.conf desactivate this
#bind "Ide-cs" to 1

The drivers for now not support the 2 fuctions at the same time for the moment.I'll Compiled the tools drivers and hostapd and fail to upload the firmware :S

See you...

[daiceman]

T-RuX,

Thanks for your reply.
I commented bind "ide-cs" to 1 as you said

but dmesg still doesn't show me any information when I plug in the card.

Have you made any other changes to files in /etc/pcmcia/ ?

I've put the hostap modules in /lib/modules/2.4.20/net/wireless and I can modprobe them and they load cleanly but I don't get any wlan0  

How did you get it to load the modules when you plug in the card?


Thanks for reply.

[leo20w]

I check this post almost everyday to see if anyone is successful to make this card work under the Cacko Rom.  I really have no clue why the firmware can not be uploaded.  Hopefully your guys (IT professionals !!) can solve this problem.

Looking forward to hearing the good news!

Leo

 

T-RuX,

Thanks for your reply.
I commented bind "ide-cs" to 1 as you said

but dmesg still doesn't show me any information when I plug in the card.

Have you made any other changes to files in /etc/pcmcia/ ?

I've put the hostap modules in /lib/modules/2.4.20/net/wireless and I can modprobe them and they load cleanly but I don't get any wlan0 

How did you get it to load the modules when you plug in the card?


Thanks for reply.
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[TheWalt]

I check this post almost everyday to see if anyone is successful to make this card work under the Cacko Rom.  I really have no clue why the firmware can not be uploaded.  Hopefully your guys (IT professionals !!) can solve this problem.

Looking forward to hearing the good news!

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Ok, bringing some life to this thread once again.  As I read the 1.23 final changelog one of the added features is support for prisim3 firmware.  However, when I insert the card it recognizes it as a 128meg flash, not the wireless card.  I see the .conf file has the wireless commented out and a comment of 'only supported as flash' but I'm hoping this card can finally be used for wireless as that is the ONLY reason I don't use Cacko.

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction of getting this card up and running.  

Thanks in advance.....

[maslovsky]

Ok, bringing some life to this thread once again.  As I read the 1.23 final changelog one of the added features is support for prisim3 firmware.  However, when I insert the card it recognizes it as a 128meg flash, not the wireless card.  I see the .conf file has the wireless commented out and a comment of 'only supported as flash' but I'm hoping this card can finally be used for wireless as that is the ONLY reason I don't use Cacko.

No, I've spent quite a lot of time trying to make this card work out of the box. There are some problems in the driver - the firmware gets loaded first time when card is inserted and initialized, but after is gets suspended it can never get back to life again.  Other cards without fimware in flash (such as Planex/IO-Data) work fine, so problem is specific to SanDisk Plus card.

I contacted the author of the driver and asked him to have a closer look, but you never know when this will happen.

[TheWalt]

... the firmware gets loaded first time when card is inserted and initialized, but after is gets suspended it can never get back to life again.  ..

I'd be happy with the information to do that at least.  (please please)  It works the same on the other roms, all I do is run a script to re-initialize the card after suspend (load firmware and kick on wlan0).  A bit of a bother but at least it works... unlike now where it doesn't even load the first time.

I hate to buy another card when I know this method, although not so out of the box, works.

[maslovsky]

I'd be happy with the information to do that at least.  (please please)  It works the same on the other roms, all I do is run a script to re-initialize the card after suspend (load firmware and kick on wlan0).  A bit of a bother but at least it works... unlike now where it doesn't even load the first time.

I hate to buy another card when I know this method, although not so out of the box, works.

Change binding from ide_cs to hostap_cs in /etc/pcmcia/sandisk.conf and restart pcmcia
When you insert the card watch syslog messages and you'll see that the card gets initialized (/etc/hostap_fw script takes care of it), then suspended immidiately. After that the card cannot be initialized again.