How do i know that i am using Host-AP for my PCMCIA Card...
Fawad Nazir
fawad.nazir
Tue May 16 00:02:28 PDT 2006
I have some strange things to share with you.
I am using Linux v2.6.16 on Ubuntu 5.10. Host-ap version is the default version.
I just tried another PCMCIA card "Veritech VAC2511-D IEEE 802.11b".
It is loading from the correct driver:
fawad at Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ ls -al /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-05-16 16:46
/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver -> ../../../../../bus/pcmcia/driv
ers/hostap_cs
Now the output of iwconfig is: (it is showing two interfaces wifi0 and wlan0)
fawad at Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wifi0 has been compiled with version 19
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 18.
Some things may be broken...
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
There's is another problem, in saw in dmesg command: prism2_config() failed
See the output of dmesg:
fawad at Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ dmesg
[4296620.261000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
[4296620.261000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
[4296620.268000] hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
[4296620.268000] hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
[4296620.268000] Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
[4296620.268000] IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
[4296620.268000] io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
[4296620.272000] hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
[4296620.272000] wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK
[4296620.312000] hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x3100-0x313f
[4296620.512000] prism2_hw_init: initialized in 199 ms
[4296620.513000] wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
[4296620.514000] wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
[4296620.514000] wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9
[4296620.515000] wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround
for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
[4296620.520000] wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
[4296620.701000] orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
[4296620.711000] orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
[4296620.717000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.1
[4296620.722000] hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
[4296620.723000] hostap_cs: setting Vcc=2 (from config)
[4296620.723000] Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
[4296620.723000] Vcc mismatch - skipping this entry
[4296620.723000] 0.1: GetNextTuple: No more items
[4296620.723000] prism2_config() failed
fawad at Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$
According to couple of suggestions in different related threads i did
two things:
added : exclude irq 9 & exclude irq 2 in the file
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts
and second:
i trued running this command to upload hostap_cs:
$sudo modprobe hostap_cs ignore_cis_vcc=1
After doing this i was succesful in getting rid of: Vcc mismatch -
skipping this entry
The output of dmesg is:
fawad at Ubuntu-01:/etc/hotplug$ dmesg
[4297035.680000] pccard: card ejected from slot 0
[4297035.689000] wifi0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5000 usec
[4297035.689000] wifi0: hfa384x_cmd_issue - timeout - reg=0xffff
[4297035.689000] wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list?
(entry=dbb30d00, type=0, res=-1)
[4297035.689000] wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: interrupted; err=-110
[4297035.689000] hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
[4297037.664000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
[4297037.664000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
[4297037.671000] hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
[4297037.671000] hostap_cs: ignoring Vcc=33 (from config)
[4297037.671000] Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
[4297037.671000] IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
[4297037.671000] io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
[4297037.675000] hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
[4297037.675000] wifi0: Interrupt, but dev not OK
[4297037.715000] hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x3100-0x313f
[4297037.915000] prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
[4297037.916000] wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
[4297037.916000] wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
[4297037.916000] wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9
[4297037.918000] wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround
for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
[4297037.922000] wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
[4297038.108000] orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
[4297038.117000] orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
[4297038.124000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.1
[4297038.129000] hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
[4297038.129000] hostap_cs: ignoring Vcc=2 (from config)
[4297038.129000] Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
[4297038.129000] IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
[4297038.129000] io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
[4297038.129000] CardServices(RequestIO) returned 29
[4297038.129000] 0.1: RequestIO: Configuration locked
[4297038.130000] 0.1: GetNextTuple: No more items
[4297038.130000] prism2_config() failed
But still i have the above few errors in the end of dmesg output.
One more thing, which i would like to share with you is that i have
blacklisted orinoco_cs
orinoco
in the file /etc/hotplug/blacklist. But this does not work. Still
orinoco_cs get loaded.
Even if i run $sudo modprobe -r orinoco_cs, still when ever i plug the
PCMCIA card in it again gets loaded.
If you have anymore questions about this, please let me know.
I will be very thankful for your help.
Best Regards,
Fawad.
On 5/16/06, Jar <jar at pcuf.fi> wrote:
>
> > Is it a must that host-ap should use wlanX interfaces?
>
> No but in default it uses wlanX, but some network script etc. can rename it to be
> something else if wanted.
>
>
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