HostAP query

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Tue May 6 12:07:20 EDT 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003, Nadeem Akhtar wrote:

>  I've a Lucent/Agere wireless card, built-in my Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop.
> It works fine with orinoco as well as wvlan drivers. I'm now trying to
> make it work with the hostAP driver. When I boot the machine, the log
> messages are like this:

Lucent firmware doesn't have a HostAP mode, at least in the form supported
by the hostap driver.  You may want to use hermesap, which loads tertiary
firmware into Lucent cards.  The homepage of hermesap is
http://hunz.org/hermesap.html

> May  6 14:46:22 ccsrwntlt01 kernel: wlan0: NIC: id=0x05 v1.2.2
> May  6 14:46:22 ccsrwntlt01 kernel: wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v4.4.1
> May  6 14:46:22 ccsrwntlt01 kernel: wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v8.42.1
> May  6 14:46:22 ccsrwntlt01 kernel: wlan0: Beacon interval setting to 100
> failed
> May  6 14:46:22 ccsrwntlt01 kernel: wlan0: Basic rates setting failed

Maybe the hostap driver should just plain refuse to put non-Intersil
firmware into the Master mode?

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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