Unable to read wireless statistics using the 0.1.2 drivers

[Jason Straight]

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It's a known(?) bug in hostap-0.1.2, at least it's been brought up on this 
list before a few times, including by me.

If you run iwconfig from wireless_tools it will update proc.


On Monday January 26 2004 11:35 am, Bradley Chapman wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I have successfully compiled and installed the HostAP 0.1.2 driver against
> a 2.6.1 kernel on my Gateway 600S laptop. My wireless card is a
> Prism3-based Linksys WPC11 with primary firmware 1.0.1 and station firmware
> 1.8.0.
>
> I have noticed that when I try to read the output of /proc/net/wireless, or
> access the wireless statistics using the gkrellm-wireless plugin, I get
> this message in the dmesg:
>
> wlan0: hostap_get_wireless_stats() called while atomic - skipping signal
> quality query
>
> The driver detects my card like this:
>
> cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x1c0-0x1cf 0x378-0x37f
> 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
> cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> hostap_cs: 0.1.2 - 2003-11-02 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
> hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
> hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (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: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
> hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
> prism2_hw_init: initialized in 194 ms
> wlan0: trying to read PDA from 0x007f0000: OK
> wlan0: NIC: id=0x801b v1.0.0
> wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
> wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.0
> prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
> wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:06:25:18:24:49
> wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
> wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
> hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
> wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
> wlan0 unsupported ioctl(0x8947)
> wlan0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
> wlan0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0d:29:17:ca:67
>
> I was able to read the statistics using the orinoco_cs drivers, so I think
> this is a misconfiguration or a bug in the 0.1.2 drivers.
>
> What should I check?
>
> TIA
>
> Brad
>
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