Hostap and zoomair4100

[Vaidehi Kasarekar]

Hello,

I am really confused regarding Hostap. Please help!!

I am trying to install HostAP on my laptop. No luck.
I was told to upgrade my firmware, or try a different
card. So I tried Zoomair 4100.

My iwconfig wlan0 is giving the following output:
[root at vaidehi ~]# iwconfig wlan0
Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version
13
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
Some things may be broken...

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access
Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
          Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power:-14 dBm  
Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment
thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-90 dBm 
Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx
invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:364  
Missed beacon:0

According to the articles given at
http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/hostap_20021012.shtml,
I should not get a link quality of 0/92. My MAC ID is
also not 44:44:44:44:44:44.

According to one of the articles on the hostap
website,
(http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison),
zoomair is a prism2 card. However, when my kernel is
detecting it, it is saying that it is a lucent based
card.

My routing table is:
[root at vaidehi ~]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags
Metric Ref    Use Iface
129.93.68.128   *               255.255.255.128 U    
0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U    
0      0        0 wlan0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U    
0      0        0 lo
default         kickapoo-2.cs.u 0.0.0.0         UG   
0      0        0 eth0

My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 settings
are:
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
BROADCAST=192.168.255.255
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.0.1

If i ping to my machine, by wlan interface, I get the
output as:
[root at vaidehi ~]# ping -I wlan0 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) from 192.168.0.1 wlan0:
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.151 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.093 ms
(As i am specifying the interface, i think, it wont go
by the loopback interface)

However using libradiate, if i do wlansniff, i do not
get any output. ??? Also my iwconfig wlan0 shows link
quality as 0/92 ?? Why is this happening?

Any ideas, hints, pointers would be REALLY useful.
I am now confused between firmwares, Is there a
difference between Lucent firmware and Prism2? How to
find firmware version no, my card is using? Is hostap
supporting my card? Are my configurations right??
Where am i going wrong???

My dmseg output is as follows:
th0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address
1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10,
00:a0:cc:c7:84:12.
eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.4
Yenta IRQ list 00b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000411
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f
0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hostap_cs: hostap_cs.c 0.0.0 2002-04-24 (SSH
Communications Security Corp, Jouni Malinen)
hostap_cs: (c) SSH Communications Security Corp
<jkm at ssh.com>
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
prism2_config()
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (from config)
CISTPL_MANFID: 0x0156, 0x0002
Lucent-based card
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
prism2_hw_config()
prism2_hw_config: initialized in 9425 iterations
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v0.8.3
wlan0: prism2_open
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack (1471 buckets, 11768 max)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann





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