Trouble with enGenius card

[Joshua Wright]

I was using it in managed mode (STA).  After a little more analysis, I'm thinking that the enGenius card doesn't actually have a built-in antenna at all - just the MMCX connectors.  That may be my problem. :)

-Joshua Wright
Team Leader, Networks and Systems
Johnson & Wales University
Joshua.Wright at jwu.edu 
http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/

pgpkey: http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/pgpkey.htm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless at douglasheld.net [mailto:wireless at douglasheld.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: Joshua Wright; hostap at shmoo.com
> Subject: Re: Trouble with enGenius card
> 
> 
> Darn, I just bought one of those...
> 
> Joshua, can you clarify: Is your enGenius functioning as as 
> station or as
> the AP?
> 
> --Doug
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Wright" <Joshua.Wright at jwu.edu>
> To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:20 AM
> Subject: Trouble with enGenius card
> 
> 
> I recently ordered a 100mW enGenius PrismII card and am 
> having trouble using
> it with the HostAP drivers.
> 
> The drivers modprobe without a problem and I can configure 
> the card with the
> standard iwconfig and prism2_param tools, but dmesg keeps reporting:
> 
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0xa287 ScanReason=2
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0xa32b ScanReason=2
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0xa7f1 ScanReason=2
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0xa9e8 ScanReason=2
> wlan0: LinkStatus=5 (Access point in range)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:19:c6 channel=11
> wlan0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0xa88f ScanReason=2
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0xa89d ScanReason=2
> wlan0: LinkStatus=4 (Access point out of range)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0x0000 ScanReason=2
> wlan0: LinkStatus=5 (Access point in range)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: ScanResults: Reserved=0x5c47 ScanReason=2
> wlan0: LinkStatus=4 (Access point out of range)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27
> wlan0: JoinRequest: BSSID=00:e0:63:82:0d:27 channel=3
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> 
> 
> "iwconfig wlan0" seems to indicate I am associated with my AP 
> (which is very
> close to my desk) but I keep seeing the LED on the enGenius 
> card flashing
> which I presume means it is diassociating and scanning for a 
> new connection.
> 
> Any thoughts on making this card work?  I am using the 
> current CVS HostAP
> drivers with a 2.4.19 kernel, wireless tools 25 and wireless 
> extensions 14.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Joshua Wright
> Team Leader, Networks and Systems
> Johnson & Wales University
> Joshua.Wright at jwu.edu
> http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/
> 
> pgpkey: http://home.jwu.edu/jwright/pgpkey.htm
> fingerprint: FDA5 12FC F391 3740 E0AE BDB6 8FE2 FC0A D44B 4A73
> 
> 
> 
> 
> iwconfig:
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"JWU"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 
> 00:E0:63:82:0D:27
>           Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=200 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3
>           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-90 dBm  Noise 
> level:-100 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:39  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:23  Invalid misc:3912   Missed beacon:0
> 
> wlan0ap   IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"JWU"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 
> 00:E0:63:82:0D:27
>           Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=200 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3
>           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Power Management:off
> 
> wlan0sta  IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"JWU"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=200 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3
>           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Power Management:off
> 
> 
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