From: Jonathan Wood (jonwood_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 2002-10-05 18:27:42 UTC
Just wanted to drop a note to the list that the Actiontec High Rate Wireless LAN MiniPCI Combo Card in my IBM A31p works OK (for the most part). I am using the 2002-09-12 release of hostap.
Occasionally device initialization fails with "could not get own MAC address". The driver seems to load OK, but the MAC address is all zeros, and nothing works. I saw some discussion of this on the list in early Sept, but saw no resolution for it.
Here is my dmesg output:
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 2002-09-12 (SSH Communications Security
Corp, Jou
ni Malinen)
hostap_pci: (c) Jouni Malinen <jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi>
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.2 hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7 wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6 wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc01, len=10 (expected6)
wlan0: could not get own MAC address wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfd42, len=8 (expected 6) wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected) wlan0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf8000000, irq=11
Interestingly, I sometimes also see other RID len mismatch complaints, both with and without the MAC problem. For example:
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 2002-09-12 (SSH Communications Security
Corp, Jou
ni Malinen)
hostap_pci: (c) Jouni Malinen <jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi>
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.2 hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7 wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6 wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc06, len=4 (expected 2) wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc83, len=4 (expected 2) wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc09, len=4 (expected 2) wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected) wlan0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf8000000, irq=11