WLAN card in MASTER mode not generating any SIGNAL ???

[thomas chen]

hello, i am trying to use Wireless PRISM card as access point
everthing seem to look good (hostap and hostap_cs modules are loaded
just fine)...  the card signal light blinks periodically, but the
client machine just cannot see any signal and sync up ???  any clue
or pointer where i should be trying to find the problem ?
thanks

tom
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LINUX 2.6.16
WLAN card: 
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9

# iwconfig -v
iwconfig  Wireless-Tools version 28
          Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v20.

Kernel    Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v19.

wifi0     Recommend Wireless Extension v18 or later,
          Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v19.

wlan0     Recommend Wireless Extension v18 or later,
          Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v19.


# iwconfig

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"AP"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:02:6F:43:AD:2D
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"AP"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:02:6F:43:AD:2D
          Bit Rate:11 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:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:161  Invalid misc:16   Missed beacon:0


# cat /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/registers
CMD=0011
PARAM0=f100
PARAM1=0000
PARAM2=0000
STATUS=0011
RESP0=0000
RESP1=0000
RESP2=0000
INFOFID=01e6
CONTROL=0000
SELECT0=01e6
SELECT1=0000
OFFSET0=0000
OFFSET1=0000
RXFID=0000
ALLOCFID=01ba
TXCOMPLFID=0000
SWSUPPORT0=8a32
SWSUPPORT1=0000
SWSUPPORT2=0000
EVSTAT=0000
INTEN=e09f
EVACK=e09f
AUXPAGE=e09f
AUXOFFSET=e09f