Help getting Senao SL-2511 wireless cards working using hostap on Ubuntu 8.10. (Part 2)

[Groves, Randy]

For sensor2:

 

'lshw -C network' reveals:

 

  *-network

       description: HFA384x/IEEE

       product: Version 01.02

       vendor: INTERSIL

       physical id: 0

       slot: Socket 0

       resources: irq:4

  *-network:0

       description: Wireless interface

       physical id: 1

       logical name: wlan0

       serial: 00:02:6f:47:d4:af

       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=hostap firmware=1.8.0
ip=10.10.1.11 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b

 

'ifconfig wlan0' on this machine:

 

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6f:47:d4:af

          inet addr:10.10.1.11  Bcast:10.10.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe47:d4af/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:10965 (10.9 KB)

          Interrupt:4 Base address:0x8100

 

'iwconfig wlan0' (in managed mode):

 

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"visitornet"  Nickname:""

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
00:14:1C:C8:9F:B2

          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3

          Retry short limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=51/70  Signal level=-38 dBm  Noise level=-89 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1911  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:1275  Invalid misc:442926   Missed
beacon:0

 

We cannot ping from either machine to the other.

 

If we try to set them to ad-hoc mode:

 

'iwconfig wlan0' on sensor1:

 

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"testnet"  Nickname:""

          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Cell: 02:02:24:5A:D6:27

          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3

          Retry short limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=46/70  Signal level=-43 dBm  Noise level=-90 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:11249  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:1637  Invalid misc:594169   Missed
beacon:0

 

'iwconfig wlan0' on sensor2:

 

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"testnet"  Nickname:""

          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Cell: 02:02:24:5A:D6:27

          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3

          Retry short limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=49/70  Signal level=-39 dBm  Noise level=-89 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:1911  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:1275  Invalid misc:445807   Missed
beacon:0

 

Still no luck.

 

Anybody have any ideas on what we can try next?  Are there issues with
the current versions of the hostap drivers and old Prism cards?  Are
there issues with Ubuntu/Debian?  Any conflict that are not obvious with
other drivers/code in the OS?

 

There doesn't seem to be anything at the ipriv level for the hostap
drivers that would help us, but we could be wrong.

 

Since we are trying to replicate an environment, we do need to use these
cards.  An attempt with madwifi and a set of Atheros cards worked with
flying colors.

 

Thanks!!

 

-randy

 

 

 

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