Posts: 604
thriftee
Joined: 27 Feb 2009
#1
The machine is a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop and its got antiX 16 loaded and running, but I can't get wireless to work. The wireless card is a 2Wire PCMCIA card fcc id M4Y-XG-300

By default it loads prism54

I will run some diagnostics on it and transfer them via USB and post them in a few minutes. I've already tried all the things I could find from websites.

It won't let me add a .txt attachment so I'll post it inline

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Dell inspiron 8100 laptop

# inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.3)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-16_386-full Berta Cáceres 26 June 2016
Machine:   System: Dell (portable) product: Inspiron 8100
           Mobo: Dell model: Inspiron 8100 Bios: Dell v: A08 date: 12/21/2001
Battery    BAT1: charge: 0.0 Wh 0.0% condition: 66.0/66.0 Wh (100%)
           model: Panasonic 4460 status: Charging
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium III Mobile (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
           flags: (pae sse) bmips: 1993 speed: 1000 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV11M [GeForce2 Go] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           tty size: 80x28 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card ESS ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
           driver: snd_maestro3 port: dc00 bus-ID: 02:03.0
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100
           driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: ecc0 bus-ID: 08:04.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intersil ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow]
           driver: prism54 bus-ID: 09:00.0
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (7.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HTS726060M9AT00 size: 60.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 25G used: 2.5G (11%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 136 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 123.9/496.9MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.0
           
           
From /var/log/dmesg:

[   14.831723] eth1: resetting device...
[   14.831752] eth1: uploading firmware...
[   14.883790] prism54 0000:09:00.0: Direct firmware load for isl3886 failed with error -2
[   14.883809] prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3886'
[   14.883860] eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3886')
[   14.883882] eth1: islpci_reset: failure
[   15.033184] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   15.035414] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   15.847686] eth1: resetting device...
[   15.847719] eth1: uploading firmware...
[   15.956717] prism54 0000:09:00.0: Direct firmware load for isl3886 failed with error -2
[   15.956736] prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3886'
[   15.956786] eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3886')
[   15.956807] eth1: islpci_reset: failure
[   16.059346] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   16.236933] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[   16.236946] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   16.236951] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   16.236955] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[   16.273433] FS-Cache: Loaded
[   16.316968] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[   16.377624] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
From lspci -nn
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] [1260:3886] (rev 01)

From iwconfig
# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200  
          Retry short limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
          
Ceni gets a message...
Scannning for wireless networks..
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant         
nl80211/: Driver does not support authentiucatioon/association or connect commands.
Could not set interface eth1 flags (UP)
From lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8                1152  1 
nls_cp437               4737  1 
uas                    11737  0 
usb_storage            41035  2 uas
bnep                    8651  2 
bluetooth             280777  5 bnep
nfsd                  223819  2 
auth_rpcgss            34240  1 nfsd
oid_registry            2211  1 auth_rpcgss
nfs_acl                 2351  1 nfsd
nfs                   152935  0 
lockd                  50426  2 nfs,nfsd
grace                   1394  2 nfsd,lockd
fscache                58202  1 nfs
sunrpc                186660  6 nfs,nfsd,auth_rpcgss,lockd,nfs_acl
af_packet              28396  4 
ipv6                  308799  34 
lp                      7647  0 
dm_crypt               15458  0 
dm_mod                 79809  1 dm_crypt
wl                   6142090  0 
p54pci                  7647  0 
p54common              26611  1 p54pci
mac80211              494447  1 p54common
cfg80211              405884  3 wl,mac80211,p54common
prism54                46137  0 
ch7006                 14934  1 
nouveau              1243141  2 
dell_laptop            12656  0 
rfkill                 12491  4 cfg80211,bluetooth,dell_laptop
iTCO_wdt                5064  0 
mxm_wmi                 1267  1 nouveau
iTCO_vendor_support     1645  1 iTCO_wdt
dcdbas                  4227  1 dell_laptop
wmi                     6694  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
ttm                    62479  1 nouveau
ppdev                   4978  0 
drm_kms_helper         89024  2 ch7006,nouveau
dell_smm_hwmon          5532  0 
drm                   229081  6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,ch7006,nouveau
pcmcia                 29916  0 
fb_sys_fops             1098  1 drm_kms_helper
syscopyarea             2926  1 drm_kms_helper
sysfillrect             3194  1 drm_kms_helper
sysimgblt               2159  1 drm_kms_helper
evdev                   9534  11 
joydev                  7951  0 
nvidiafb               35358  0 
input_leds              2382  0 
serio_raw               3841  0 
yenta_socket           19024  0 
pcmcia_rsrc             7241  1 yenta_socket
pcspkr                  1587  0 
lpc_ich                12648  0 
rivafb                 41504  0 
vgastate                8041  2 rivafb,nvidiafb
pcmcia_core            10007  3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
i2c_algo_bit            4708  3 nouveau,rivafb,nvidiafb
rng_core                5056  0 
fb_ddc                  1261  2 rivafb,nvidiafb
snd_maestro3           14570  1 
snd_ac97_codec         88723  1 snd_maestro3
ac97_bus                1134  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                67431  2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_maestro3
snd_timer              16116  1 snd_pcm
snd                    45230  6 snd_ac97_codec,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_maestro3
soundcore               4455  1 snd
intel_agp               8912  1 
video                  22079  2 nouveau,dell_laptop
intel_gtt              10204  1 intel_agp
acpi_cpufreq            6254  0 
processor              20972  2 acpi_cpufreq
shpchp                 21906  0 
tpm_tis                 8787  0 
irda                   87270  0 
tpm                    26977  1 tpm_tis
crc_ccitt               1259  2 irda,p54common
ac                      2967  0 
button                  3720  1 nouveau
parport_pc             27363  1 
parport                28410  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
rtc_cmos                8766  0 
battery                 6042  0 
8250_fintek             2381  0 
btrfs                 957242  0 
xor                    16504  1 btrfs
raid6_pq               92121  1 btrfs
psmouse                92585  0 
firewire_ohci          28514  0 
firewire_core          44501  1 firewire_ohci
e100                   26480  0 
mii                     3571  1 e100
floppy                 51550  0 
thermal                 6939  0 

Last edited by thriftee on 01 Aug 2016, 01:44, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#2

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54"
linktext was:"https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54"
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Posts: 604
thriftee
Joined: 27 Feb 2009
#3
Well, I tried a 4th time starting from a fresh download and this time it worked. The only change was the fresh download.

blacklist prism54
modprobe -r prism54
modprobe -r p54pci
download file from site above, rename to isl3886pci, copy to /lib/firmware and also /usr/local/firmware
modprobe p54pci
iwconfig
ceni

thanks, your suggestion worked
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#4
You are welcome.