Hostap and zoomair4100

Wed Jul 9 19:42:15 PDT 2003

Hi

I have Netgear Wireless MA401, which is also a Prism card. Consult :

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~chhabra/netgearwireless.html

I hope that helps.

MS

PS : 44444 means that your card is trying to connect to an AP but not 
getting through.

Vaidehi Kasarekar wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am really confused regarding Hostap. Please help!!
>
>I am trying to install HostAP on my laptop. No luck.
>I was told to upgrade my firmware, or try a different
>card. So I tried Zoomair 4100.
>
>My iwconfig wlan0 is giving the following output:
>[root at vaidehi ~]# iwconfig wlan0
>Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version
>13
>of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
>Some things may be broken...
>
>wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access
>Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
>          Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power:-14 dBm  
>Sensitivity=1/3
>          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment
>thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-90 dBm 
>Noise level:-90 dBm
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx
>invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:364  
>Missed beacon:0
>
>According to the articles given at
>http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/hostap_20021012.shtml,
>I should not get a link quality of 0/92. My MAC ID is
>also not 44:44:44:44:44:44.
>
>According to one of the articles on the hostap
>website,
>(http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison),
>zoomair is a prism2 card. However, when my kernel is
>detecting it, it is saying that it is a lucent based
>card.
>
>My routing table is:
>[root at vaidehi ~]# route
>Kernel IP routing table
>Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags
>Metric Ref    Use Iface
>129.93.68.128   *               255.255.255.128 U    
>0      0        0 eth0
>192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U    
>0      0        0 wlan0
>127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U    
>0      0        0 lo
>default         kickapoo-2.cs.u 0.0.0.0         UG   
>0      0        0 eth0
>
>My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 settings
>are:
>DEVICE=wlan0
>BOOTPROTO=static
>ONBOOT=yes
>BROADCAST=192.168.255.255
>NETWORK=192.168.0.0
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>IPADDR=192.168.0.1
>
>If i ping to my machine, by wlan interface, I get the
>output as:
>[root at vaidehi ~]# ping -I wlan0 192.168.0.1
>PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) from 192.168.0.1 wlan0:
>56(84) bytes of data.
>64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
>time=0.151 ms
>64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
>time=0.093 ms
>(As i am specifying the interface, i think, it wont go
>by the loopback interface)
>
>However using libradiate, if i do wlansniff, i do not
>get any output. ??? Also my iwconfig wlan0 shows link
>quality as 0/92 ?? Why is this happening?
>
>Any ideas, hints, pointers would be REALLY useful.
>I am now confused between firmwares, Is there a
>difference between Lucent firmware and Prism2? How to
>find firmware version no, my card is using? Is hostap
>supporting my card? Are my configurations right??
>Where am i going wrong???
>
>My dmseg output is as follows:
>th0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address
>1.
>eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
>eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10,
>00:a0:cc:c7:84:12.
>eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex
>Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.4
>Yenta IRQ list 00b8, PCI irq11
>Socket status: 30000411
>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f
>0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
>cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
>hostap_cs: hostap_cs.c 0.0.0 2002-04-24 (SSH
>Communications Security Corp, Jouni Malinen)
>hostap_cs: (c) SSH Communications Security Corp
><jkm at ssh.com>
>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
>hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
>prism2_config()
>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (from config)
>CISTPL_MANFID: 0x0156, 0x0002
>Lucent-based card
>Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
>IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
>io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
>hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io
>0x0100-0x013f
>hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
>prism2_hw_config()
>prism2_hw_config: initialized in 9425 iterations
>wlan0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
>wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
>wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v0.8.3
>wlan0: prism2_open
>ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
>ip_conntrack (1471 buckets, 11768 max)
>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
>
>
>
>
>
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