problems with a rangelan ds

From: Forrest English (forrest_at_truffula.net)
Date: 2002-08-17 15:28:03 UTC


i'm having an impossible time getting hostap to work, using a ricoh chipset pci cardbus adapter (that came with the dlink dwl-500 bundle), and a 3.3v rangelan ds card.

i had to add the card definition to hostap_cs.conf, but that shouldn't be a big deal. so basicaly what i'm hoping is, that someone has used these before and there's some quirk that i just need to know. but although it apears it's running (to me), kismet doesn't see anything, nor can i associate with it manually with iwconfig on my laptop with an orinoco card, and my friend's ibook doesn't see it either.

card "RangeLAN-DS/LAN PC CARD"

   manfid 0x0126, 0x8000
   bind "hostap_cs"

# Optional configuration parameters for hostap_cs.o module "hostap_cs" opts "channel=11 iw_mode=3 essid=awip ignore_cis_vcc=0" 

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:"awip"  
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:60:B3:67:2E:98
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:-11 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid cryp	t:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 cardmgr[571]: starting, version is 3.1.33
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 cardmgr[571]: watching 1 sockets
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 cardmgr[571]: Card Services release does not match
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 cardmgr[571]: socket 0: RangeLAN-DS/LAN PC CARD
Aug 16 18:56:14 node02 cardmgr[571]: executing: 'modprobe hostap_cs
channel=11 iw_mode=3 essid=awi
p ignore_cis_vcc=0'
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: hostap_cs.c 0.0.0 CVS (SSH Communications Security Corp,
 Jouni Malinen)
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: (c) SSH Communications Security Corp <jkm_at_ssh.com> 
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: prism2_config()
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1
dflt.io.nwin=1
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64 Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 9, io 0x0100-0x013f 
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: prism2_hw_init()
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: prism2_hw_config: initialized in 5982
iterations 
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: wlan0: NIC: id=0x8002 v1.0.0
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.4
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 kernel: wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
Aug 16 18:56:15 node02 cardmgr[571]: executing: './network start wlan0'
Aug 16 18:56:16 node02 kernel: wlan0: prism2_open

it looks to me like it should be working... but, it doesn't.

kernel 2.4.19
pcmcia-cs 3.1.33
hostap (a fairly recent cvs version, within the past couple weeks) using the intersil 1.03 firmware on the card

if anyone's got any ideas, help would be appreciated. thanks. 

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