Problems with Allied Telesyn PCMCIA wireless

[Daniel Ruiz López]

Hi,

I have two computers with Ubuntu 5.11 and kernel 2.6.10. In both of them I
have two PCMCIA slots that runs with the module i82365.

I have four PCMCIAs with chipset "Prism2" as the followings:

- 1 "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC" with firmware
      PRI: v1.0.7
      STA: v1.3.6

- 1 "CONCEPTRONIC CON11C" with firmware
      PRI: v0.3.0
      STA: v1.5.6

- 2 "ALLIED TELESYN AT-WCL452" with firmware
      PRI: v1.1.0
      STA: v1.4.9

The first two PCMCIA cards work well in both computers.

The problem is with the two "Allied Telesyn" cards. They don't work well in
any computer, indistinctly of the order I put them.  If I combine them with
a Netgear or with an Conceptronic, they continue without working properly.

If I put an Allied in one computer and I do an "iwconfig", it doesn't appear
all the parameters as you can see:

#root at zalux1:~ # iwconfig
#
#wifi1    IEEE 802.11-DS  Mode:Ad-Hoc
#           Encryption key:off
#
#wlan1    IEEE 802.11-DS  Mode:Ad-Hoc
#             Encryption key:off
#             Link Quality:67/70  Signal level:-23 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
#             Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
#             Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:4   Missed beacon:0

Furthermore, it doesn't let me change any parameter with "iwconfig":

#root at zalux1:~ # iwconfig wlan1 essid wireless
#Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
#    SET failed on device wlan1 ; Invalid argument.


When I plug the "Allied", if I do "dmesg" it appears the following (it
always appears when there is another pcmcia card in the computer and I put
the "Allied" as the second one):

#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c52904e0, type=0, res=-1)
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd: interrupted; err=-110
#wlan1: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fc82, len=2)
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5000 usec
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd_issue - timeout - reg=0x8021
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c52904e0, type=0, res=-1)
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd: interrupted; err=-110
#wlan1: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fc09, len=2)
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5000 usec
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd_issue - timeout - reg=0x8021
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c52904e0, type=0, res=-1)
#wlan1: hfa384x_cmd: interrupted; err=-110
#wlan1: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd48, len=2)

Does anyone see the problem?

Thanks,
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Dani
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