"original" WDT11/WPC11 combo for an AP?

linuxchuck linuxchuck
Mon Jan 27 17:57:49 PST 2003


Hello all.  This is my first post, so I'll keep it as short as possible.  At the risk of becoming flamebait for some post
I probably missed in my searching...  here's the problem:

I've done a bit of research through the archives and haven't seen a reference to my hardware, so I thought I'd ask
if there is anyone who has experience with it.

I am using the first release of the WPC11 seated in a WDT11 and have had a "partial" success getting it to work
as an AP with the Host_AP drivers.  I have a laptop in the house with the same WPC11 pc card in the pcmcia
slot.  I can get good association, and signal strength, but cannot send any data.  DHCP times out, and if I
statically assign an IP, I still cannot ping to or past the AP.  I have used the setup as  described at
http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/hostap_20021012.shtml to the letter.  I have two Ethernet connections, Eth0
is my internet connection, and Eth1 is my home network.  I used the bridging technique from the same page.

Here is the information from my ifconfig, iwconfig, and hostap_diag commands:

*********hostap_diag wlan0**********
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x8002 v1.0.0 (HWB3163-01,02,03,04 Rev A)
PRIID: id=0x0015 v0.3.0
STAID: id=0x001f v0.8.0 (station firmware)

**********iwconfig wlan0**********
wlan0	  IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:"test"  
	  Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:04:5A:CE:6D:C7  
	  Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:-4 dBm   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:0   Missed beacon:0

**********ifconfig**********
br0	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:CE:6D:C7  
	  inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:9723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:13716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
	  RX bytes:654613 (639.2 Kb)  TX bytes:15682965 (14.9 Mb)

eth0	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:24:9C:55  
	  inet addr:68.47.118.231  Bcast:68.47.118.255	Mask:255.255.255.0
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:396352 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:131138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
	  RX bytes:46502816 (44.3 Mb)  TX bytes:9530417 (9.0 Mb)
	  Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 

eth1	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:24:9C:54  
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:9727 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:57955 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
	  RX bytes:790975 (772.4 Kb)  TX bytes:18335851 (17.4 Mb)
	  Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000 

lo	  Link encap:Local Loopback  
	  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
	  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
	  RX packets:986 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:986 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
	  RX bytes:2734581 (2.6 Mb)  TX bytes:2734581 (2.6 Mb)

wlan0	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:CE:6D:C7  
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:45616 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
	  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:3841942 (3.6 Mb)
	  Interrupt:14 Base address:0xc000 

My initial suspicion is that perhaps the age/firmware version I am running might be the problem.  If that is the case,
from my readings, I could not find a set of firmware that was "known good" and I could use with my specific card.
If anyone has had any success with this particular setup, I'd appreciate any guidance you can provide.	Thanks in
advance...

Charles
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