I have a Power Mac G4, a PCD-RP-101CS PCI-PCMCIA/CARDBUS
bridge(http://www.psism.com/pci_rear_reader.htm)
and a Netgear Wireless WG511 card. The bridge uses the Ricoh R5C475II
chipset.
I followed the instructions on the YDL site for installing a
WG511 card(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/netgear-wg511.shtml).
I created a new device by choosing the Prism54 set as suggested. I had expected
that the Prism54 choice would be given, when I selected the new device to be “WIRELESS
connection”, but it wasn’t there. The only place I was presented
with the “Prism” option, was when I selected the creation of a “ETHERNET
connection” device, and I was presented with the choice “Intersil
ISL3890[Prism GT/Prism DUETTE](ETH1). I selected that. I then tried to activate
it. I get the message “cannot activate network device eth1. prism54
device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization”.
Has anyone else had experience with using PCMCIA with a PCI
bridge card on a desktop cpu?
I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, etc on how to get
this thing working.
The results of doing a “lspci –v”
are below, between the lines of pluses. The Ricoh bridge is recognized. Under
the Intersil ISL3890, there is a mention of Netgear being an unknown device.
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00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium
devsel, latency 16
Capabilities: [80] AGP version
1.0
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x
TMDS (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz,
medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48
Memory at 0000000094000000 (32-bit,
prefetchable)
I/O ports at 802400 [size=256]
Memory at 0000000090000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management
version 2
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium
devsel, latency 16
0001:10:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 05)
(prog-if 00 [Normal
decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium
devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=10, secondary=11,
subordinate=15, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge:
80000000-800fffff
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management
version 1
0001:11:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
Subsystem: CARRY Computer ENG. CO Ltd:
Unknown device 0101
Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
latency 168, IRQ 53
Memory at 0000000080087000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable)
Bus: primary=11, secondary=12,
subordinate=15, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 800a0000-800bf000
(prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 800c0000-800df000
I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003
I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
16-bit legacy interface ports at
0001
0001:11:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
latency 16
Memory at 0000000080000000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable)
0001:11:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
latency 16, IRQ 27
Memory at 0000000080083000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable)
0001:11:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
latency 16, IRQ 28
Memory at 0000000080082000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable)
0001:11:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
latency 16, IRQ 63
Memory at 0000000080081000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable)
Memory at 0000000080088000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management
version 1
0001:12:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism
GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device
4800
Flags: bus master, medium devsel,
latency 80, IRQ 53
Memory at 00000000800c0000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management
version 1
0002:25:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium
devsel, latency 16
0002:25:0f.0 Class ffff: Illegal Vendor ID: Unknown device ffff (rev ff)
(prog-if ff)
!!! Unknown header type 7f
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Thanks,
MJS
