Re: Freeze after insert of pcmcia card
Hi, This is an old thread (August 20 2004!), but I thought It could be useful to share the solution I've found for the freezing problem upon insterting, in my case, a Netgear MA401RA pcmcia card in a Sony Vaio PCG-K13 with Debian Sid standard kernel 2.6.12. The solution that works in my case is quite simple (but it took me a while to find it!): I just had to comment out (remove the #) the line exlude IRQ3 at the end the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file, and then reboot. It seems that there is an IRQ conflict if the MA401RA is set to use IRQ3. Hope it will help someone Marco I have a problem that has been troubling me for some time. Whenever I plugin my 802.11b PCMCIA netword card my laptop freezes completely and I have to cut the power. The same thing happens it the PCMCIA card is in the computer when it boots. Computer: Hi-Grade notino 5400 Netgear MA401 network card Latest debian testing Standard Debian kernel image 2.6.7 In the pcmcia-howto they suggest that there might be a problem with the ports and memory in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. I've tried to read the memory sections from the device driver information under windows and inserting them in config.opts, But I keep getting the same results. Claus -- Marco Laverdière
Re: PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA not working anymore after Sid dist-upgrade
Hi to all, The problem was that the /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf file link the MA401RA card to the prism2_cs module, while it should be to the orinico_cs module. The only thing I had to do to make it work is to replace the following lines: card NETGEAR MA401RA 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card version NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P, Eval-RevA bind prims2_cs by these ones: card NETGEAR MA401RA 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card version NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P, Eval-RevA bind orinoco_cs I'll fill a bvug report against the linux-wlan-ng package to which belongs the /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf file. . -- Message transmis -- Subject: PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA not working anymore after Sid dist-upgrade Date: 22 Octobre 2005 11:37 From: Marco Laverdière [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi to all, Well I guess the subject if this message says it all: I was running happily my wireless PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA card since 3 years on my Debian Sid/2.6.5/Sony Vaio PCG-K13Q laptop when suddenly, it stopped working just after I did a dist-upgrade yesterday (October 21). Before, when I was inserting the card, I had a deep deep sound and right after, I was up and running with my wireless connection. Now, I get a deep doop sound, and no connection. However, the card seems to still be recognized: doing a cardctl ident at root gives me this: Socket 0: product info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P, Eval-RevA manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300 function: 6 (network) Here's some more info: - pcmcia-cs, linux-wlan-ng and wireless-tools packages ared installed; -pcmcia_core, orinoco_cs, orinoco, ds, yenta-socket and modules are loaded at boot, by way of /etc/modules; -in /etc/pcmcia/config file, I can find the following lines: card Netgear MA401RA Wireless Adapter version NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card bind orinoco_cs Also, I can get a wireless network connection with the built-in (but less reliable and more slower) Atheros Madwifi card. When I did the dist-upgrade, I observed that the hotplug package had to be removed, because of incompatiblity with udev and hal packages. I tried to reinstalled hotplug, but without results. I'm a little bit clueless right now... Someone can help me solving this. Thanks. -- Marco Laverdière --- -- Marco Laverdière
PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA not working anymore after Sid dist-upgrade
Hi to all, Well I guess the subject if this message says it all: I was running happily my wireless PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA card since 3 years on my Debian Sid/2.6.5/Sony Vaio PCG-K13Q laptop when suddenly, it stopped working just after I did a dist-upgrade yesterday (October 21). Before, when I was inserting the card, I had a deep deep sound and right after, I was up and running with my wireless connection. Now, I get a deep doop sound, and no connection. However, the card seems to still be recognized: doing a cardctl ident at root gives me this: Socket 0: product info: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P, Eval-RevA manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300 function: 6 (network) Here's some more info: - pcmcia-cs, linux-wlan-ng and wireless-tools packages ared installed; -pcmcia_core, orinoco_cs, orinoco, ds, yenta-socket and modules are loaded at boot, by way of /etc/modules; -in /etc/pcmcia/config file, I can find the following lines: card Netgear MA401RA Wireless Adapter version NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card bind orinoco_cs Also, I can get a wireless network connection with the built-in (but less reliable and more slower) Atheros Madwifi card. When I did the dist-upgrade, I observed that the hotplug package had to be removed, because of incompatiblity with udev and hal packages. I tried to reinstalled hotplug, but without results. I'm a little bit clueless right now... Someone can help me solving this. Thanks. -- Marco Laverdière
