How to bind hostap_cs to my PCMCIA card ?

[Dave D.]

Hi,

I battled with tis same issues on Gentoo after using linux-wlan.

After a few hours of frustration I decided to re-emerge linux-wlan 
(emerge is the gentoo install process) at the end of the install I 
noticed the following

"Wireless cards which you want to use drivers other than wlan-ng for
need to have the appropriate line removed from /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf
Do 'cardctl info' to see the manufacturer ID and remove the 
corresponding line from that file."

I do not know if simply commenting them out is sufficient, - I removed 
the entire definition from the file.

Hope this helps.  I thought it was strange - but what ever works I guess.

Dave

chr.m at habmalnefrage.de wrote:

> 
> I have installed hostap-driver-0.1.3 on a fresh Suse 9 Installation on my
> laptop, but whenever I insert the PCMCIA card, it is bound to prism2_cs.
> I use a ZyAIR B-101; "cardctl ident" recognized manfid: 0xd601, 0x0005.
> 
> Therefore I controlled the entries in /etc/pcmcia/config and in
> /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf.
> In /etc/pcmcia/config was one Card description which binds the mentioned
> manfid
> to "orinoco_cs":
> 
> 
> card "D-Link DCF660"
>    manfid 0xd601, 0x0005
>    bind "orinoco_cs"
> 
> 
> In /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf also was a Card description entry
> with this manfid, but bound to "hostap_cs":
> 
> 
> card "Zcomax XI-325H 200mW"
> #   version " ", "IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN/PC Card"
>    manfid 0xd601, 0x0005
>    bind "hostap_cs"
> 
> 
> So I expected that all would be fine after deleting the unwanted entry in
> etc/pcmcia/config, so that there remains only one Card description with the
> desired
> binding to hostap_cs in /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf.
> 
> But after restarting pcmcia the same behaviour occurs, i.e. cs automatically
> loads prism2_cs, referring to a "D-Link DCF-660W  11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
> which
> is mentioned neither in /etc/pcmcia/config nor in
> /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf.
> 
> 
> 
> Output of "tail -f /var/log/messages", starting pcmcia service:
> 
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 cardmgr[1191]: modpath =
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 cardmgr[1191]: modsubdir = pcmcia
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 cardmgr[1191]: watching 2 sockets
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff:
> excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03af:
> excluding 0x378-0x37f
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> Mar 16 08:52:46 wardriver2 cardmgr[1193]: starting, version is 3.2.4
> 
> 
> 
> Output of "tail -f /var/log/messages", after inserting the card:
> 
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
> clean.
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: socket 1: D-Link DCF-660W  11Mbps
> 802.11b WLAN Card
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: module
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default//pcmcia/p80211.o not available
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: executing: 'modprobe -v p80211'
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: + /sbin/insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p80211.o
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: + Using
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p80211.o
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: + Symbol version prefix ''
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: executing: 'insmod -v
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o'
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 /sbin/hotplug[2197]: no runnable
> /etc/hotplug/wlan.agent is installed
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: + Using
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: + Symbol version prefix ''
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 kernel: prism2_init: prism2_cs.o: 0.2.1-pre9
> Loaded
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 kernel: prism2_init: dev_info is: prism2_cs
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io
> 0x0100-0x013f
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 cardmgr[2193]: executing: './network start wlan0'
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 /sbin/hotplug[2207]: no runnable
> /etc/hotplug/wlan.agent is installed
> Mar 15 12:58:26 wardriver2 ifup: No configuration found for wlan-pcmcia-1
> wlan0
> Mar 15 12:58:27 wardriver2 /etc/hotplug/net.agent[2222]: Interface wlan0 is
> handled by service PCMCIA    ... exiting
> 
> 
> 
> How can I achieve, to load hostap_cs ?
> 
> 
> regard
> 
> chr. mayer
> 
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