prism54 not loading firmware...

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 18:10 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:15 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Well I saw the firmware load exactly once. 
> 
> Ah, that's right, probably actually loading the firmware once is a good
> sign I hope. However...
> 
> >  I really don't know if it's
> > a softmac one, here is LSPCI -v of it:
> > 
> > 00:05.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism
> > GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
> >         Subsystem: Intersil Corporation: Unknown device 0000
> >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 185
> >         Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> >         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 
> Unfortunately knowing the PCI ID isn't good enough any longer, here's a
> scary chart:
> http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
> (Look at the "important disclaimer")

For Netgear WG511v2 cards (on bottom of the box and on back of card):

If it says "Made in Taiwan" it is OK.
If it says "Made in China" it is softmac and not currently usable.

Dan