Having problems with Hostap driver

[Bruce Ferrell]

and to add to it, I do beleive I have enabled the firware download:


/* Include code for downloading firmware images into volatile RAM. */

#define PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT

/* Allow kernel configuration to enable download support. */

#if !defined(PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT) && defined(CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE)
#define PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT
#endif

#ifdef PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT

/* Allow writing firmware images into flash, i.e., to non-volatile
  * storage.Before you enable this option, you should make absolutely
  * sure that you are using prism2_srec utility that comes with THIS
  * version of the driver!
  * In addition, please note that it is possible to kill your card with
  * non-volatile download if you are using incorrect image. This feature
  * has not been fully tested, so please be careful with it.
*/

#define PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD

#endif /* PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT */


Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> I'm on kernel.org 2.4.25
> 
> hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> hostap_pci: 0.4.1 - 2005-05-22 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
> wifi0: Original COR value: 0x11
> prism2_hw_init: initialized in 190 ms
> wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
> wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
> wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.2
> wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware 
> bug in Host AP mode WEP
> wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in 
> Host AP mode WDS
> wifi0: Warning: secondary station firmware version 1.4.2 does not seem 
> to work in Host AP mode
> wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xfa009000, irq=17
> wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
> wlan0: updating basic rate set automatically to match with the new 
> supported rate set
> [root at baywinds modules]# hostap_diag wlan0
> Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
> 
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not permitted
> hostap_diag requires root privileges
> 
> and I get a similar result from prism2_srec -r rf010704.hex
> 
> any thoughts on what I've done wrong?
> 
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