Installation problems with debian

Fri Mar 12 10:58:43 PST 2004

maybe you want to try wlan0 instead of eth2

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:41:49 +0100
Daniel Heinrich Peger <daniel at peger.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm relativly new to Linux and Wireless, so please don't call my
> stupid if this question is :-)
> 
> I want to replace my the default driver for my WLAN-card with the
> HostAP(0.2.0) driver, but it doesn't work.
> 
> I bought an Allnet ALL0191 WLAN PCI-Adapter which I want to run as an
> AP under Debian with a selfcompiled 2.6.3 kernel from kernel.org.
> 
> Compilation of the latest HostAP version (0.2.0) worked fine, till I
> wanted to replace the orinoco driver which is default for my
> WLAN-card. As you see the PCI-card is detected at boottime as eth2 and
> the orinoco driver is loaded
> 
> gaia:/# dmesg
> ...
> orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and
> others) orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson
> <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tourrilhes <jt at hpl.hp.com>)
> Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:00:0b.0, mem:0xE3000000 to
> 0xE3000FFF -> 0xcd14b000, irq:11
> Reset
> done.................................................................
> ......................; Clear
> Reset................................................................
> ......................; pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - FFFC2A41 - FFFC284D
> eth2: Station identity 001f:0004:0001:0003
> eth2: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.4
> eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> eth2: MAC address 00:02:DD:35:84:C4
> eth2: Station name "Prism  I"
> eth2: ready
> ...
> 
> All modules are at their places and ready to rock. Like I mentionend
> "make" and "make install" worked very well without error messages...
> 
> gaia:/lib/modules/2.6.3-dhp.040303/kernel/drivers/net/wireless# ls -l
> total 780
> ...
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       117003 Mar 10 00:54 hostap.ko
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6033 Mar 10 00:54
> hostap_crypt_wep.ko-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        62662 Mar 10
> 00:54 hostap_cs.ko-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        57297 Mar 10
> 00:54 hostap_pci.ko-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        60059 Mar 10
> 00:54 hostap_plx.ko...
> 
> After doing the "make install" I loaded the the new modules with
> "modprobe hostap_pci" - as described in the README. Doing a lsmod
> after that reveals, that the modules are loaded:
> 
> gaia:/# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> hostap_pci             53296  0
> hostap                117000  1 hostap_pci
> ...
> 
> dmesg says the same:
> 
> gaia:/# dmesg
> ...
> hostap: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
> hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> hostap_pci: 0.2.0 - 2004-02-15 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> 
> The fist line saying "no version for struct_module found" should be no
> harm in my opinion, as it's only saying, that a thrid-party module
> (namely hostap_pci) was loaded. But correct my, if i'm wrong...
> 
> 
> Thinking the card is running with the new driver I tried to put it
> into master mode, but only this happend:
> 
> gaia:/# iwconfig eth2 mode master
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device eth2 ; Invalid argument.
> 
> 
> I thought it could perhaps be the old firmware which seems to be
> version 1.3.4 (see dmesg above) and is known to be not very well...
> 
> After locking how to flash the cards firmware I tried to determine
> mine cards ID with hostap_diag. But this was the only output I got:
> 
> gaia:/usr/src/archives/hostap/hostap-utils-0.2.0# ./hostap_diag eth2
> Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'eth2'
> 
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported
> Could not communicate with the kernel driver.
> 
> So the card is still with the orinoco driver, or what? And when it is,
> how can I get the component ID for my card, which is needed to find
> the right firmware version.
> 
> So what went wrong?
> 
> There are serveral howtos - unfortunatly most of them in spanish -
> saying i got to add something like
> 
> alias eth2 hostap_pci
> 
> to /etc/modules.conf. But as I'm running Debian the system should
> insert this line by itself after doing "update-modules", but it
> doesn't. And adding this line by hand also has no effect on the driver
> loaded on bootup. Creating a file /etc/modutils/hostap with this
> content
> 
> # mode: 3 = AP, 2 = Station, 1 = Ad-Hoc
> options hostap_pci essid=visionsAP channel=7 mode=3
> 
> and doing "update-modules" afterwards - as described in an article in
> a german computer magazine (c't 07.2003). Only causes this error
> message
> 
> gaia:/# update-modules
> /etc/modutils/hostap: line 2: options: command not found
> Error while executing /etc/modutils/hostap, aborting
> 
> 
> Perhaps you might think the ALL0191 PCI-adapter has not the right
> chipset, but you are wrong with that:
> 
> gaia:/# lspci
> ...
> 00:0b.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan
> chipset(rev 01)
> ...
> 
> I would be very happy if someone could help my with my problem and
> tell my what I am doing wrong.
> 
> Lots of thanks in advance,
> Daniel Peger.
> 
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