What Am I Missing?

[Les Bell]

"Jason Boxman" <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:

>>
> They talk perfectly happily in Ad-Hoc mode, but whenever I put the Linux
box into Master mode and the Win2K box into its "Infrastructure" mode,
the game is over. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

What STA firmware is on the MA401?
<<

OK, thanks to Jean's pointers, I'm back in the game. . .

./hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.0.7
STAID: id=0x001f v1.3.6 (station firmware)

I'm guessing that's pretty old station firmware, right?

>>
Does the W2K station associate with the HostAP Box in Master mode?
<<

As mentioned previously, no association - the W2K machine shows "scanning".
Basically, everything works fine in Ad-Hoc mode - I'm using it right now -
but no association with the HostAp box in "Master" mode and the W2K in
"Infrastructure" mode.

Best,

--- Les Bell, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]