Problems with Prism3 NIC 801D

[Martin Whitlock]

I posted this a while ago, but I havn't got any reply. Is there anyone 
that successfully uses NIC ID 801D together with hostap?

Thanks!
/Martin


Martin Whitlock wrote:

> I have a new Prism3 SENAO (NL-2511 Mercury) card with NIC ID 801D and 
> experience problems when modprobing cvs version of hostap. It starts 
> with "<4>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd - timeout - reg=0xbe00" followed by other 
> unsuccessful hfa382x commands... See attached log for more info. Any 
> ideas? Has anything changed between NIC 801B and 801D messing things 
> up for hostap?
>
> /Martin
>
> _____________________________
>
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$modprobe hostap_cs
> hostap_cs: CVS (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 153, io 0xf6000000-0xf600007f
> hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
> wlan0: hfa384x_cmd - timeout - reg=0xbe00
> hostap_cs: first command failed - is the card compatible?
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$cat /proc/kmsg
> <7>hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> <6>hostap_cs: CVS (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> <7>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
> <7>hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
> <7>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
> <7>Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
> <7>IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
> <7>io->flags = 0x0047, io.base=0x0000, len=128
> <6>hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 153, io 0xf6000000-0xf600007f
> <6>hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
> <4>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd - timeout - reg=0xbe00
> <4>hostap_cs: first command failed - is the card compatible?
> <7>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5000 usec
> <7>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_issue - timeout - reg=0xbe00
> <7>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5000 usec
> <7>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_issue - timeout - reg=0xbe00
> <7>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5000 usec
> <7>wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_issue - timeout - reg=0xbe00
>
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$
>
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$iwconfig wlan0
> Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version 13
> of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 11.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"
>          Mode:Master
>          Encryption key:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0
>
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$
>
>
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$hostap_diag wlan0
> Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
>
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Connection timed out
> Could not communicate with the kernel driver.
> [pxadmin at Linux /root]$
>
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