[ATrpms-users] Re: hostap help?

[Troy Engel]

Hi Axel,

Not a peep from two different mailing lists, no soggestions at all. 
Seems to me that means noone is using the packages? I haven't gotten 
around to working with it again, it's a spare-time project. :)

Found some google hints, they're not seeming to help...I may try the 
linux-wlan-ng driver instead for this card.

thx,
-te

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Troy,
> 
> did you get any further? If you spotted any bugs in the packaging,
> please let me know. Also if you find any upstream patches fixing your
> issue, I'd add them to the packages.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:32:01AM -0800, Troy Engel wrote:
> 
>>I inherited a Linksys WPC11v3 (Prism3) pcmcia card, trying to get it 
>>working with the atrpms hostap* packages, if anyone can help. It seems 
>>to be specifically related to hostap (driver? rpms?).
>>
>>I've tried both the 0.2.6 and 0.3.7 RPM sets 
>>(hostap-utils/hostap-kmdl/hostap-driver) from ATrpms and get the same 
>>results, so I don't think the version is it. I upgraded the firmware on 
>>this card to the known good versions (fw1.1.1/sta1.7.4), that also 
>>hasn't seemed to help. The card *does* come up (associate/dhcp lease) 
>>under the stock orinoco_cs drivers in the generic FC3 kernel, but 
>>generate some crypt errors and invalid tx packets, and starts to fail 
>>after awhile.
>>
>>The issue: I have a mixed mode basestation, standard 128bit WEP, ESSID 
>>broadcasting is enabled. When trying to bring the prism3/hostap combo 
>>online, it won't associate with my basestation. The WEP keys are fine 
>>and all that jazz -- all I can see is:
>>
>>  wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"theloft"  Nickname:"hermes"
>>            Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.467GHz  Access Point: 
>>44:44:44:44:44:44
>>
>>...note the access point BSSID, 44:44:... Now, if I simply type 
>>"iwconfig wlan0 essid any", I immedately associate with a random access 
>>point in my area (there are 8 or 9 in range, welcome to San Francisco :) )
>>
>>  wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"2WIRE321"  Nickname:"hermes"
>>            Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 
>>00:0D:72:55:89:81
>>
>>Now, if I run 'iwlist wlan0 scan', I can *see* my AP and it's MAC 
>>address just fine:
>>
>>  Cell 01 - Address: 00:07:40:9F:97:37
>>            ESSID:"theloft"
>>            Mode:Master
>>
>>From all the googling I do, it seems like everything should be working 
>>just fine, but it's not. There's plenty of simple HowTo's like this one: 
>>http://www.sorgonet.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=152&mode=&order=0&thold=0 
>>where other folks are compiling from source.
>>
>>Before I start ditching RPMS and going with raw source tarballs, does 
>>anyone with hostap experience (with the ATrpms) have any advice on what 
>>the problem might be?
>>
>>thx!
>>-te
>>
> 
> 

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Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
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