pci unsupported PM regs version (7), means hardware isn't working?

From: Ed Sweetman
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 17:57:43 EST


I'm getting this warning when i try to load the madwifi drivers on my WRAP board for the WMIA-166AG mini-pci card using kernel 2.6.13.3 and the latest trunk of madwifi.

This is the only error that's printed before the HAL driver for madwifi responds with "no hardware found or unsupported hardware" etc etc. I had to add the pcid's to madwifi for it to even detect it enough to try and send it to the HAL module, but the madwifi dev team isn't looking at any bug reports because of this printk that's being made by the PCI subsystem in the kernel.

So, does this printk mean anything (i've seen posts where the hardware producing it was working, the printks were just a nuissance) or does it indicate some issue the PCI subsystem is having in powering the card up and communicating with it. In either case, I'd be more than happy with providing anyone able to patch the pci code with information i have on the card.

If it's nothing but a harmless warning, i'll forward the response to the madwifi wiki and mailing list, so something can be done upstream to the hal module to work the card.

Thanks in advance.


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