No connection to any AP

[Björn Beckmann]

Hello!

I have the following problem with my Senao SL2011 CD Plus Ext wlan
card. I installed several different versions of the hostap-driver but
always ran into the same problem: the kernel-modules load fine but I
cannot connect to any accesspoint.

More detailed, this is my setup:

Running Debian Woody with self-compiled kernel 2.4.27, externel
pcmcia-cs package, the hostap-driver patched into the kerenl source
tree as pointed out in hostap-driver-0.3.0/kernel-patches/README. When
I insert the pccard, dmesg gives this output 

hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
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: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 140 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.1
wifi0: registered netdevice eth1


If I try to get any IP address via dhcp (i.e.: ifconfig eth1 up,
followed by ifup eth1, with the following entry in
/etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth1 inet dhcp
        wireless-essid Whatever_or_none
        wireless_mode managed
        wireless yes
), I get these messages:

wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: TXEXC - status=0x0004 ([Discon]) tx_control=000c
   retry_count=0 tx_rate=0 fc=0x0108 (Data::0 ToDS)
   A1=44:44:44:44:44:44 A2=00:02:6f:01:bd:5c A3=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
   A4=00:00:00:00:00:00

And iwconfig says this

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension, but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some
driver features may not be available...

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.467 GHz  Access Point:
	  44:44:44:44:44:44   
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.467 GHz  Access Point:
	  44:44:44:44:44:44   
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Changing the ESSID to any other string does not help anything at
all. Finally, ifconfig shows

eth1      Protokoll:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:02:6F:01:BD:5C  
          inet Adresse:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255
	  Maske: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:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl?nge:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:6120 (5.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0x100 

lo        Protokoll:Lokale Schleife  
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl?nge:0 
          RX bytes:1312 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:1312 (1.2 KiB)

wifi0     Protokoll:UNSPEC  Hardware Adresse
00-02-6F-01-BD-5C-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl?nge:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:6120 (5.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0x100 

The output of cardctl ident is

Socket 0:
  product info: "INTERSIL", "HFA384x/IEEE", "Version 01.02", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)


The card does seem to work somehow, though, since kismet works with no
problems at all. 

Sorry for this rather lengthy posting! I would be really thankfull, if
anyone can give any hints...

Thanks!
 Bjoern Beckmann