Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate working with hostap driver in managed mode

[Santiago Garcia Mantinan]

Hi!

Today a friend lent me a 3Com AirConnect 3CRWE73796B card, which is known to
be a Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate based card. He didn't know this and was
thinking it could be a prism2 so I put it into my machine and loaded hostap
0.0.3 and even though it gave some errors...

wlan0: NIC: id=0x8000 v0.0.1
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v2.1.2
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v2.1.2
wlan0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f, resp0=0x0004
wlan0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fc33, len=2)
wlan0: Beacon interval setting to 100 failed
wlan0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f, resp0=0x0004
wlan0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fc10, len=2)
wlan0: DTIM period setting to 1 failed
wlan0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f, resp0=0x0004
wlan0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fcb4, len=2)
wlan0: cnfSupportedRates setting to 15 failed
wlan0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f, resp0=0x0004
wlan0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fcb3, len=2)
wlan0: cnfBasicRates setting to 3 failed
wlan0: CMD=0x0121 => res=0x7f, resp0=0x0004
wlan0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=127, rid=fc43, len=2)
wlan0: cnfEnhSecurity setting to 0x0 failed

it worked well as a client, which really shocked me as I had read it was a
Symbol card. So I tried to let it stay in master mode, and it didn't work,
but it didn't give any more errors than these ones.

So I'm asking myself... how does this card, which is not even a prism card
work in managed mode? and would it be posible to get HostAP mode on it with
a different firmware/changes on the driver/any other way?

Well, I just wanted to let you know this, it shocked me quite a lot to see
this working :-???

Regards...
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