From: Munir Nassar (nassarmu_at_redconcepts.net)
Date: 2002-08-11 05:35:18 UTC
odd, i sent this out ages ago,
anyways the problem got fixed when i flashed all cards involved.
-munir
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Munir Nassar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to setup one of my boxen to be an Access point, i got the USR2445
> which is a USRobotics Prism2 3.3v card stuck to a plx bridge
>
> i can use the hostap_plx drivers without a problem but when i enable WEP
> stations cannot connect to the AP and i cannot ping, (tcpdump shows arp
> problems)
>
> if i ping both ways simultaniously i get about 90% traffic loss
>
> lspci -vv shows:
> 00:0d.0 Network controller: Unknown device 16ec:3685 (rev 02)
> Subsystem: Unknown device 1638:00e1
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> Region 1: I/O ports at 1080 [size=128]
> Region 2: Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Region 3: I/O ports at 1040 [size=64]
>
>
> and i added the manfids to the hostap_plx source as follows:
> <SNIP more code>
> { 0xd601, 0x0005 } /* Zcomax XI-325H 200mW */,
> { 0x16ec, 0x3685 } /* USR2445*/,
> { 0, 0}
> };
>
> i know WEP works on the card because i plugged it into a laptop and i was
> able to use it as an AP,
>
> i am at work now and i used one of the windows laptops here to flash the
> card to the latest firmware, i will let you know if this fixes the
> problem.
>
> -munir
>
>