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Wireless card failed to initialize?
« on: February 27, 2004, 10:41:30 am »
Hello, I am new around here and new to the Zaurus. I have a SL-5000D using Sharp ROM Version 1.13 with a Linksys WCF11. I have configured everything to what I have read; IE the network settings, a listing for my card in pcmcia.conf, and the prism2_cs driver is installed.
I have been troubleshooting things for a day and a half when I ran accross a line in dmesg stating that the card failed to initialize. This may sound kinda stupid, but does this mean my card is dead or am I missing something?

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Wireless card failed to initialize?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2004, 11:25:13 am »
try the cardctl commands and see what they say:

# cardctl status (will tell you if card is \'ready\' or \'suspended\' IIRC)
# cardctl insert (will insert card if it is not recognized - happens when I restart pcmcia, for example)
# cardctl resume (if suspended, will attempt to activate the card)

FYI - I performed the following command and it seemed to fry my last WiFi card, so I\'d steer clear just to be safe:
# cardctl reset

Someone will know this stuff better than me, but those are all the cmds that I need to manage my bluetooth and wifi cards.

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Wireless card failed to initialize?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2004, 12:31:52 pm »
Ok i did \"cardctl status\" and it shows the card is \"ready\", still not getting anywhere? It cant be my router I am 10 feet from it,so I dont think its a signal problem.
Also should \"iwconfig\" be installed or would that have any effect if it wasn\'t?

Here are some of the settings to view incase I screwed something up;

wlan-ng.conf entry for my card:

card \"The Linksys Group, Inc.\", \"Wireless Network CF Card\",
\"ISL37300P\", \"RevA\"
manfid: 0x0274, 0x3301
bind \"prism2_cs\"

Heres the part of the dmesg i was talking about:

init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.12-shp Loaded
init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs
prism2_cs: GetNextTuple: No more items
prism2sta_config: NextTuple failure? It\'s probably a Vcc mismatch.
prism2sta_event: prism2_cs: Initialization failed!


I appreciate the help