dwl-500 hostap newbie questions
bunkertor at tiscali.it
bunkertor
Tue Aug 12 01:36:55 PDT 2008
hi to all and many many thanks for impressive work you're doing!
then sorry for my english. i know it's not my best skill with many other
things...
anyway i hope someone can see what i mean! any help will be appreciate!
im newbie in linux and totally new about wireless stuff and hostap(d) but i'd
like to make an open AP run to connect
our wifi laptops to home wired network =)
i run fedora core 4 with 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 as kernel and i compiled pcmcia-cs-
3.2.8 with success
(even if deprecated with this kernel).
first i downloaded last stable release hostap driver: hostap-driver-0.4.9 and
i tried to compile
them becouse in the kernel tree i missed some hostap crypt modules:
hostap_crypt_tkip.ko,
hostap_crypt_wep.ko,
hostap_crypt_ccmp.ko
i had got only these ones as "native"
hostap.ko,
hostap_cs.ko,
hostap_pci.ko,
hostap_plx.ko
but i had this error during compiling:
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[root at bran hostap-driver-0.4.9]# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4/build SUBDIRS=/usr/local/hostap-driver-
0.4.9/driver/modules \
MODVERDIR=/usr/local/hostap-driver-0.4.9/driver/modules modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-i686'
scripts/Makefile.build:17: /usr/local/hostap-driver-0.4.9
/driver/modules/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/hostap-driver-0.4.9
/driver/modules/Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/local/hostap-driver-0.4.9/driver/modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-i686'
make: *** [2.6] Error 2
[root at bran hostap-driver-0.4.9]#
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i know the kernel i run is not supported by hostap driver yet but i can't
understand why script delete every file
in driver/module directory.
and also i dont know where is pcmcia-cs root to copy driver/modules/hostap.c
there (2nd install methode in README).
anyway with hostap kernel driver and cardmgr (using /etc/pcmcia/config with
hostap_cs bind) i can configure my card:
i can see the device and his virtual like this:
=============================================================================================
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wifi0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"BUNKERTOR" Nickname:"bran"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:05:91:B1:B9:27
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:"BUNKERTOR" Nickname:"bran"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:05:91:B1:B9:27
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=0/70 Signal level=-100 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:7659 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
=============================================================================================
it should be ok, but when i trying to connect to the wifi link with laptops, i
can connect
but there are no signals in ad-hoc mode and link quality is 0.
changing mode in "master" with wireless tools, i got another strange result:
=============================================================================================
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"BUNKERTOR" Nickname:"bran"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:05:5D:5B:B9:27
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:"BUNKERTOR" Nickname:"bran"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:05:5D:5B:B9:27
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:0 Invalid misc:11590 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
=============================================================================================
no link quality, no signal level, no noise. is it normal??
then i try to use wireless tool to understand more about behavior of the card,
but strange things
dont stop:
=============================================================================================
[root at bran hostap-driver-0.4.9]# iwlist scann
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Warning: Driver for device wifi0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...
wifi0 No scan results
wlan0 No scan results
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
[root at bran hostap-driver-0.4.9]#
=============================================================================================
this is dmesg, is it ok?
=============================================================================================
[root at bran hostap-driver-0.4.9]# dmesg | grep host
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: , irq 169, io 0x0100-0x013f
wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware bug in
Host AP mode WEP
=============================================================================================
this is hostap_diag output
=============================================================================================
[root at bran hostap-utils-0.2.8]# ./hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.2 (station firmware)
[root at bran hostap-utils-0.2.8]#
=============================================================================================
lspci
=============================================================================================
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
Region 0: Memory at ef005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 70000000-71fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 72000000-73fff000
I/O window 0: 00001400-000014ff
I/O window 1: 00001800-000018ff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
=============================================================================================
some infos about card i have
=============================================================================================
[root at bran hostap-utils-0.2.8]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "D", "Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
[root at bran hostap-utils-0.2.8]# pccardctl ls
Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:00:0b.0)
Socket 0 Device 0: [hostap_cs] (bus ID: 0.0)
=============================================================================================
lsmod
=============================================================================================
Module Size Used by
uhci_hcd 24525 0
ppp_synctty 10945 0
ppp_generic 30037 1 ppp_synctty
slhc 6977 1 ppp_generic
parport_pc 28461 1
lp 13185 0
parport 37897 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 21957 1
it87 20709 0
hwmon_vid 2881 1 it87
hwmon 3781 1 it87
i2c_isa 5697 1 it87
i2c_dev 9441 0
i2c_core 22721 3 it87,i2c_isa,i2c_dev
sunrpc 163557 1
ipv6 248513 22
dm_mod 61269 0
video 17733 0
button 7121 0
battery 10821 0
ac 5189 0
ohci_hcd 22109 0
ehci_hcd 33741 0
snd_intel8x0 32861 0
snd_ac97_codec 95073 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2625 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 4165 0
snd_seq_oss 33957 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7873 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 54957 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 9293 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40657 0
snd_mixer_oss 18241 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 86084 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25285 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 56001 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,
snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10145 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10953 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
sis900 24897 0
hostap_cs 67073 3
hostap 119369 1 hostap_cs
ieee80211_crypt 7105 1 hostap
3c59x 44905 0
mii 5825 2 sis900,3c59x
floppy 61373 0
ext3 136137 5
jbd 60629 1 ext3
aic7xxx 142577 6
scsi_transport_spi 25537 1 aic7xxx
sd_mod 21697 9
scsi_mod 139341 3 aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod
=============================================================================================
i dont know how to do at this time... im not sure my wifi card is working fine
or not with hostap driver
(for a lot of ppl it's working) or i'm doing mistakes in configuration.
i hope this report can be useful to gurus for debug my situation, if not and
if you want let me know
what is needed more.
thanks in advance for any help.
bye.
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