configuring wireless connection - beginner

[Jay Strauss]

Just for the sake of completeness (though you probably already know)

hydrogen:~# hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.0.5
STAID: id=0x001f v1.3.3 (station firmware)


Jay Strauss wrote:
> Jouni, again thanks for the help so far
> 
> 
>>If you have a PCI/mini-PCI version of Prism2.5/3 card, it should be
>>enough to just load the hostap_pci kernel module with modprobe.
> 
> 
> Ok, I know how to do this.  But it seems to be loading without me doing 
> anything:
> 
> hydrogen:~# lsmod | grep hostap
> hostap_pci             59984  0
> hostap                124904  1 hostap_pci
> 
> 
>>The station firmware version (v1.3.3) you are using is too old for
>>WPA support which makes wpa_supplicant refuse to use this card. In
>>other words, you would need to download a firmware upgrade to get
>>v1.7.0 or newer station firmware.
> 
> 
> This might be a problem. I just searched IBMs website for firmware 
> updates and I only found 1, dated 2003/05/19, firmware version 
> 1.04.02.00, which I suspect based on it's release date will be too old, 
> although I admit don't know.  Furthermore its only offered as a windows 
> update exe.
> 
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40236
> 
> I found a site: http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ (which you are 
> referenced) which has links to other more recent versions of intersil 
> firmware.
> 
> I'm a bit lost as to what my next step is.
> 
> - Do I need to update the station firmware only?
> - Do I need to update primary firmware & station firmware?
> - Where would you suggest I find these updates for my card?
> 
> Thanks again
> Jay
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:42:50PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>At this point I thought I was getting somewhere.  so I changed my
>>>/etc/pcmcia/config file and added:
>>>
>>>device "hostap_pci"
>>>  class "network" module "hostap_pci"
>>
>>
>>hostap_pci is not used with PC Cards and as such, this should not be in
>>cardmgr configuration. If you have a PCI/mini-PCI version of Prism2.5/3
>>card, it should be enough to just load the hostap_pci kernel module with
>>modprobe. How this done properly depends on the distribution used.
>>
>>
>>
>>>hydrogen:~# wpa_supplicant -d -Dhostap -ieth0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>>
>>
>>If the interface is still eth0, I would guess you are still using
>>Orinoco driver, not Host AP driver.
>>
>>
>>
>>>hostap_pci: 0.3.7 - 2005-02-12 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
>>>hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
>>
>>
>>>wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
>>>wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.5
>>>wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.3
>>
>>
>>>wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
>>
>>
>>However, this here is looking much more like Host AP driver. Please note
>>that the interface name here is wlan0..
>>
>>The station firmware version (v1.3.3) you are using is too old for WPA
>>support which makes wpa_supplicant refuse to use this card. In other
>>words, you would need to download a firmware upgrade to get v1.7.0 or
>>newer station firmware.
>>
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