After having struggled with a PCMCIA/PCI adapter with the wrong chipset, I replace the whole thing with a D-Link DWL-500 where the whole hardware is on the HCL. Still after multiple attempts, my wlan0 interface although detected stays listed as down, i tried another PRISM2 chipset card to no avail. I would really love it if someone could help me. Here's a dump of my log:
Feb 3 21:41:19 (none) kernel: Cannot open map file: /System.map.
Feb 3 21:41:19 (none) kernel: Loaded 98 symbols from 3 modules.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99Xc 6/27/2002 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xdc00, 00:04:76:97:36:4a, IRQ 10
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: 8K buffer 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: Using bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: eth1: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xd800, 00:04:76:97:35:b3, IRQ 11
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: 8K buffer 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: Using bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: eth2: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xd400, 00:04:76:97:36:48, IRQ 5
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: 8K buffer 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
Feb 3 21:41:20 (none) kernel: Using bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Feb 3 21:41:21 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Feb 3 21:41:21 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Feb 3 21:41:21 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Feb 3 21:41:21 (none) kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid
Feb 3 21:41:21 (none) kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik
Feb 3 21:41:21 (none) kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Feb 3 21:41:22 (none) kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Feb 3 21:41:22 (none) kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8192 buckets, 65536 max) - 320 bytes per conntrack
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.1
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: kernel build: 2.4.19-C2_23 #2 Wed Jan 22 10:29:32 CET 2003
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus]
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:0f.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:0f.0
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: Ricoh RL5C475 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0f, mem 0x10000000
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: host opts [0]: [pci only] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 5] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: PCI card interrupts, PCI status changes
Feb 3 21:41:23 (none) kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.15 Loaded
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x3c0-0x3df 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x03bf: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x047f: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0490-0x04cf: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x80f 0x818-0x837 0x840-0x86f
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0838-0x083f: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0870-0x08ff: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc1f
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c20-0x0cff: clean.
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: ident: nic h/w: id=0x800c 1.0.0
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.0.7
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.3.6
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=4/4
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/9
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 3 21:41:24 (none) kernel: Prism2 card SN: 99SA01000000
Feb 3 21:41:31 (none) kernel: dot11req_reset: the macaddress and setdefaultmib arguments are currently unsupported.
Feb 3 21:41:31 (none) kernel: PDA Read from 0x007f0000 in NV space.
Feb 3 21:42:31 (none) kernel: Download 508 bytes to flash @0x3f0000
Feb 3 21:42:31 (none) kernel: Writing 508 bytes to flash @0x3f0000
Feb 3 21:42:31 (none) kernel: hfa384x_drvr_flashdl_write: download(NVWRITE,lo=0,hi=3f,len=1fc) cmd failed, result=-110. Aborting d/l
Feb 3 21:43:32 (none) kernel: hfa384x_docmd_wait: hfa384x_cmd timeout(1), reg=0xc000.
Feb 3 21:43:32 (none) kernel: hfa384x_docmd_wait: hfa384x_cmd timeout(1), reg=0xc000.
Feb 3 21:43:32 (none) kernel: hfa384x_drvr_start: Initialize command failed.
Feb 3 21:43:32 (none) kernel: hfa384x_drvr_start: Failed, result=-110
