Trouble with hostap on Debian Lenny

[Gilberto Ficara]

Hello everyone!

I was using hostap some years ago and it did work good for me, but today
I installed my old wifi adapter on my new gateway with Debian Lenny and
got some strange error messages in /var/log/syslog trying to start hostapd:

[724490.053526] hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
[724490.053526] wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
[724490.255414] prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
[724490.256252] wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
[724490.256408] wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
[724490.256572] wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6
[724490.257624] wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a
workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WEP
[724490.257630] wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for
firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
[724490.259197] wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xdcfff000, irq=18
[724490.259197] wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
[724539.345611] Scan result translation succeeded (length=0)
[724589.958488] ioctl32(hostapd:17131): Unknown cmd fd(3)
cmd(00008be0){t:ffffff8b;sz:0} arg(ffa8f8ec) on socket:[207184]


My (PCI) adapter is:

01:06.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)


My config file:

interface=wlan0
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=4
debug=0
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
ssid=Default Home
country_code=IT
hw_mode=b
channel=0
beacon_int=100
dtim_period=2
max_num_sta=255
rts_threshold=2347
fragm_threshold=2346
macaddr_acl=1
accept_mac_file=/etc/hostapd/accept
auth_algs=3
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0


# hostapd -version
hostapd v0.5.10
User space daemon for IEEE 802.11 AP management,
IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
Copyright (c) 2002-2008, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> and contributors


# Hostap-utils:
0.4.7


# uname -a
Linux cassonetto 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 18:16:28 UTC 2008
x86_64 GNU/Linux


Is there any other relevant info I can provide to solve that problem?

TY in advance :)

Gilberto