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* [gentoo-user] Help getting PCMCIA WiFi card working again
@ 2006-12-21 10:11 Daevid Vincent
  2006-12-21 11:31 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daevid Vincent @ 2006-12-21 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

My Senao/EnGenius 200mW WiFi card was working fine for a few years, and now,
after some upgrade and a power-outage that caused a reboot, it's not. I
cannot figure out for the life of me what is wrong now. It's been two days
of constant debugging and I'm out of ideas. I'm trying to use the kernel
2.6.15-gentoo-r1 hostap and pcmcia drivers as per the suggestions I've read
that have depricated the alternatives. It's frustrating, because the card
appears to be recognized and I don't see any errors anywhere to debug
further.

daevid ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
 * Starting wlan0
 *   Bringing up wlan0
 *     10.10.10.1/24
 *     network interface wlan0 does not exist
 *     Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)


daevid ~ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:3B:65:87
          inet addr:24.17.255.202  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:363967 (355.4 Kb)  TX bytes:35779 (34.9 Kb)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:3B:65:88
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
          TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4112 (4.0 Kb)  TX bytes:7001 (6.8 Kb)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1096 (1.0 Kb)  TX bytes:1096 (1.0 Kb)


daevid ~ # iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Master  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
          Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off  
          Power Management:off

wlan0ap   IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Master  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
          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 crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0



daevid ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
hostap_cs              61080  1
hostap                112260  1 hostap_cs
tuner                  43556  0
tvaudio                22300  0
bttv                  157264  0
video_buf              17412  1 bttv
v4l2_common             4992  1 bttv
btcx_risc               4232  1 bttv
tveeprom               14096  1 bttv
videodev                7424  1 bttv
nvidia               4547284  0


daevid ~ # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wireless.rules
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:02:6f:09:b2:b4", NAME="wlan0"

daevid ~ # dmesg
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION  
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 376 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0  
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9  
wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in
Host AP mode WDS
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0


daevid ~ # esearch pcmcia
*  sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
      Latest version available: 3.2.8-r2
      Latest version installed: 3.2.8-r2

*  sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-cis
      Latest version available: 3.2.8-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

*  sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-modules
      Latest version available: 3.2.8
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

*  sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-pnptools
      Latest version available: 3.2.8
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

*  sys-apps/pcmciautils
      Latest version available: 013
      Latest version installed: 013

*  virtual/pcmcia
      Latest version available: 2.6.13
      Latest version installed: 3.2.8-r2

daevid ~ # esearch udev
*  sys-fs/udev
      Latest version available: 103
      Latest version installed: 103

daevid ~ # pccardctl info
PRODID_1="INTERSIL"
PRODID_2="HFA384x/IEEE"
PRODID_3="Version 01.02"
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0156,0002
FUNCID=6

daevid ~ # pccardctl ls
Socket 0 Bridge:        [yenta_cardbus]         (bus ID: 0000:00:08.0)
Socket 0 Device 0:      [hostap_cs]             (bus ID: 0.0)

daevid ~ # pccardctl status
Socket 0:
  3.3V 16-bit PC Card
  Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "hostap_cs"

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* RE: [gentoo-user] Help getting PCMCIA WiFi card working again
  2006-12-21 10:11 [gentoo-user] Help getting PCMCIA WiFi card working again Daevid Vincent
@ 2006-12-21 11:31 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) @ 2006-12-21 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com]
> Sent: 21 December 2006 10:11
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Help getting PCMCIA WiFi card working again

--snipsnip--

> daevid ~ # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:3B:65:87
>           inet addr:24.17.255.202  Bcast:255.255.255.255  
> Mask:255.255.252.0
>           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
>  Metric:1
>           RX packets:5739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
>           TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:363967 (355.4 Kb)  TX bytes:35779 (34.9 Kb)
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:3B:65:88
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
>           RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
>           TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:4112 (4.0 Kb)  TX bytes:7001 (6.8 Kb)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
>           TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:1096 (1.0 Kb)  TX bytes:1096 (1.0 Kb)
> 
> 
> daevid ~ # iwconfig
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth1      no wireless extensions.
> 
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
>           Mode:Master  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
>           Sensitivity=1/3
>           Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off  
>           Power Management:off
> 
> wlan0ap   IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
>           Mode:Master  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
>           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 crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 

Forgive me if I am mistaken, but doesn't this show your WLAN card not
being called wlan0, but instead being called wifi0?

Just a guess.

David

Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of
success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this
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