Wireless card not working

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:00 +0200, ph35sm at free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
> I need your help and hope that someone may explain what happens.
> let me explain :
> 1) three years ago i set up a linux firewall with a SMC wifi card as a AP using
>  the software hostap driver. No problem and everything works fine.
> 2) this month i change the hardware from pentium 166 Mhz to PIII 1Ghz :-) and
>  install fedora core 5 and the same wifi card. As I want to download software
> from hostap.epitest.fi I understand that the kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 i have,
> already have all the necessairy modules, but I can't configure the card as AP.

FC5 has the hostap driver _and_ the orinoco driver, and both work for a
subset of the same hardware.  They are likely fighting for the card.
Add these lines to your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file:

orinoco
orinoco_cs
orinoco_pci
orinoco_nortel
orinoco_plx
orinoco_tmd

Dan

> result of command :
> # lspci -v|grep SMC
> 01:0d.0 Network controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] SMC2602W EZConnect
> / Addtron AWA-100 / Eumitcom PCI WL11000  (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] SMC2602W EZConnect / Addtron
> AWA-100 / Eumitcom PCI WL11000
>         Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] Unknown device 1255
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 20
> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
> Some things may be broken...
> 
> eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"stmalo"  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: 02:23:EF:CC:0D:AD
>           Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
>           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:2  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:21662  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> eth2      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> # iwconfig eth1 mode Master
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
> 
> Why is it not possible to configure the card as an AP (master) ?
> 
> The modules are loaded :
> # lsmod |grep host
> hostap_plx             58517  0
> hostap                113737  1 hostap_plx
> ieee80211_crypt         6849  1 hostap
> 
> Your help will be greatly appreciated.
> Best regards
> Thanks
> Philippe
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