firmware upgrade and hostapd running

[Foy, Patrick]

I am running the prism2_srec utility without the hostapd running.   Hostapd
is not required to do upgrades.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Yu, Heeyeol [mailto:heeyeoly at CS.UCLA.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 3:34 PM
To: hostap at shmoo.com
Subject: firmware upgrade and hostapd running


Hi all
 
I followed the general rules and yours. But when I tried to upgrade firmware
for AP mode in WPC11 PCMCIA card,
there is error message saying 
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[root at yuatlinux utils]# ./prism2_srec -r wlan0 ../firmware/RF010409.HEX 
srec summary for RF010409.HEX
Component: 0x001f 1.4.9 (station firmware)
Supported platforms:
  0x800a 1.0.0,  0x800b 1.0.0,  0x800c 1.0.0,  0x800d 1.0.0,  0x8012 1.0.0
  0x8013 1.0.0,  0x8014 1.0.0,  0x8016 1.0.0,  0x8017 1.0.0,  0x8018 1.0.0
  0x801a 1.0.0,  0x801b 1.0.0,  0x801c 1.0.0,  0x8021 1.0.0,  0x8022 1.0.0
  0x8023 1.0.0,  0x800a 1.0.0,  0x800e 1.0.0,  0x8015 1.0.0,  0x8019 1.0.0
  0x801d 1.0.0,  0x8024 1.0.0
Separate S3 data areas:
  addr 0x007E1800..0x007ED199 (len 47514)
  addr 0x007F0800..0x007F1875 (len 4214)
  addr 0x007FE000..0x007FECE7 (len 3304)
Total data length: 55032 bytes
Start address 0x003f0c01
 
Could not read wlan PDA. This requires PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT definition in
driver/module/hostap_config.h.
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I compiled hostap kit with this option, "PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT", like
this, make pccard EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DPRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT
-DPRISM2_HOSTAPD".
Also I realized that this problem is related with zero content in
/proc/net/hostap/wlan0/pda.
 
BTW what's the purpose of hostapd? Is it only for Authentication? Then if I
don't need authentication, I don't have to run this.
But when I tried to run it causes problem.
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[root at yuatlinux hostap-2002-10-12]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:86:60:FB:9E  
          inet addr:131.179.136.63  Bcast:131.179.136.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:184500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300 
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:13554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
 
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:25:17:FA:33  
          inet addr:192.168.100.1  Bcast:192.168.100.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 
[root at yuatlinux hostap-2002-10-12]# hostapd/hostapd wlan0
ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX): No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
[root at yuatlinux hostap-2002-10-12]# hostapd/hostapd -xm wlan0
ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX): No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
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How can I use hostapd?
 
 
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 John Heeyeol Yu
 Computer Science Department
 H: 310-838-2396
 O: 310-206-8589
   <http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~heeyeoly> http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~heeyeoly
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