Close but no cigar...

[Jesper Weissglas]

Hi folks, I'm hoping for some assistance in getting hostap running.

I have compiled and configured v0.2.5 on my Fedora 3 (kernel
2.6.9-1.681-FC3) system just fine.
The driver gets this far:

Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 cardmgr[6035]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11
Mbps Wireless Adapter
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: hostap_cs: 0.2.5 - 2004-10-03 (Jouni 
Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11,
io 0x0100-0x013f
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: wifi0: NIC: id=0x05 v1.2.2
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v4.4.1
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v6.14.1
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: wifi0: Beacon interval setting to 100
failed
Dec 11 21:15:36 jw-p4000 kernel: wifi0: DTIM period setting to 1 failed
....and so on.

Most other folks that have had this problem have been told they are not
actually running a PRISM2 card,
but all info I have tells me I am. My card happends to be built-in in a
Toshiba Protege 4000 laptop.

The Fedora installer detects it as a PRISM2 card, and the orinoco_cs
driver was working fine with it.

Here is some more info:

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[root at ...]# cardctl status
Socket 0:
  3.3V 16-bit PC Card
  function 0: [ready]
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[root at ...]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "TOSHIBA", "Wireless LAN Card", "Version 01.01", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)
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[root at ...]# ./hostap_diag -p wifi0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wifi0'

NICID: id=0x0005 v1.2.2 (unknown)
PRIID: id=0x0015 v4.4.1
STAID: id=0x001f v6.14.1 (station firmware)

Production Data Area (PDA)
Could not read wlan PDA. This requires PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT
definition for the kernel driver.
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This is strange, because PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT is as it was in the
distribution, not commented out, and the driver thus should be compiled
with download support built in???

/jesper