Hostap and zoomair4100

Thu Jul 10 13:17:38 PDT 2003

Hi,

Thanks Madhusudan.! The documentation was really
helpful.

I wanted my laptop to configure as a client.
My only mistake was, i was not associating wlan0 with
my wireless network. 

Associating the card with essid of my accesspoint
solved my problem. Though a simple solution, being a
newbei, it never stiked my mind...

I always thought that its coz of my network
configuration settings or coz of some
incompatibilities between firmware versions or because
hostap cant be used in a pure client mode, or prism2
firmware issue, or my kernel and pcmcia versions are
incompatible.....the list was unending and i was
confused. :)

PHEW!! My old firmware SMC card 2632W also worked with
the current version of hostap. 

I am happy, it worked with SMC. I still have to try
with zoomair though.

thanks again!
-Vaidehi

--- Madhusudan Singh <chhabra at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
> 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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> 
> -- 
> Madhusudan Singh
> Graduate Student Research Assistant,
> Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
> Science,
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109,
> United States.
> 
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