Loading firmware isl3890 for WG511 v1 fails

[Benjamin Peter]

Hi list,

I have a problem getting my Netgear WG511 card to work
again. (It worked some time ago)

When running 'ifconfig eth1 up' I get
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

I hope you have an idea what I might have missed.

Here is some gathered information about my sys.


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# System information
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Debian testing

$ uname -a
Linux spike 2.6.13.2-dd #2 Tue Sep 27 16:13:48 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lspci | grep Prism
0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
/sbin/udevsend

$ /sbin/hotplug help
Usage: /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug AgentName [AgentArguments]
AgentName values on this system: dasd firmware ieee1394 input net pci scsi tape usb

$ ls -la /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93996 Sep 27 16:56 /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890


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# The failing command
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# ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory


############
# syslog
############
Sep 30 12:05:44 spike kernel: eth1: resetting device...
Sep 30 12:05:44 spike kernel: eth1: uploading firmware...
Sep 30 12:05:54 spike kernel: prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
Sep 30 12:05:54 spike kernel: eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
Sep 30 12:05:54 spike kernel: eth1: islpci_reset: failure


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# Some experiment
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When I want to run it manualy with:
$ export ACTION=add DEVPATH=bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0 FIRMWARE=isl3890
$ hotplug firmware

I sent my firmware.agent as atachement.

I get the following:
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: line 45: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/loading: Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/data': Permission denied
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: line 47: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/loading: Permission denied

and actually there is no "loading"
$ ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0
bus config driver local_cpus power resource0 subsystem_vendor
class device irq modalias resource subsystem_device vendor



Thank you,

Benjamin Peter

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

Post by Benjamin Peter
Hi list,
I have a problem getting my Netgear WG511 card to work
again. (It worked some time ago)
When running 'ifconfig eth1 up' I get
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

[trim]

Post by Benjamin Peter
$ export ACTION=add DEVPATH=bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0 FIRMWARE=isl3890
$ hotplug firmware
I sent my firmware.agent as atachement.
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: line 45: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/loading: Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/data': Permission denied
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: line 47: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/loading: Permission denied
and actually there is no "loading"
$ ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0
bus config driver local_cpus power resource0 subsystem_vendor
class device irq modalias resource subsystem_device vendor

You'd need to be root for this, and I think 'loading' and 'data' only
exist during the request_firmware call.... You could modify your hotplug
firmware agent to log stderr from these three commands, and see what
happens...
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[Benjamin Peter]

Hi,

Post by Benjamin Peter
I have a problem getting my Netgear WG511 card to work
again. (It worked some time ago)
When running 'ifconfig eth1 up' I get
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

I don't know what exactly the problem was but I deinstalled
udev and hotplug and also deleted the /etc/hotplug directory.

After that I reinstalled both - and it works pretty well now.


Thanks for your help,

Benjamin Peter