From: Chr <chunkeey@web.de>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Subject: Re: kernel panic on p54pci insertion on mipsel
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 21:50:01 +0200
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org>
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On Wednesday 06 August 2008 21:02:24 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>
> (...)
>
> >> - doesn't work with prism54.ko module (similar messages to
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=120250829717134&w=2)
> >
> > We need more details, or do you get *exactly* the same error messages?
> >
> > "Out of memory, cannot handle oid" comes up after a failed kmalloc()
> > while trying to handle an interrupt and management frame (not 802.11
> > frame) from the firmware. From that archived mailing list though the
> > oid 0x080002ff is mentioned and... well prism54 doesn't know what that
> > is. I wonder if the firmware is triggering random interrupts with
> > bogus oids.
> >
> > If you can provide a complete log it can help. Also in your previous
> > posts I see you mentioned you were working with different firmwares.
> > 1.0.4.3.arm should *only* be used with prism54. You may also want to
> > try an older firmware version than 1.0.4.3.arm, this one came from
> > 3com cards.
>
> Is older firmware available anywhere online?
you can get lots of fullmac & softmac firmwares right here:
http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/

Regards,
	Chr