<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pavel Roskin</b> <<a href="mailto:proski@gnu.org">proski@gnu.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 00:20 -0400, Sun wrote:<br>> If the kernel that already has hostap driver, 'lsmod' doesn't show<br>> hostap_crypt_wep, hostap_cs, hostap_crypt, etc. After I issue modprobe<br>> hostap, only hostap and ieee80211_crypt. Is it normal?
<br><br>I think it's normal.<br><br>Actually, I meant the kernels that have hostap driver in the sources.<br>Even if the driver in the kernel is not enabled, you still cannot<br>compile the external hostap against it because the external driver is
<br>not updated for the new kernels.<br><br>--<br>Regards,<br>Pavel Roskin<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Then how can I enable it? <br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">[root@localhost mkim]# /sbin/cardctl ident</span><br>
Socket 0:<br>
product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""<br>
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002<br>
function: 6 (network)<br>
Socket 1:<br>
no product info available<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">[root@localhost mkim]# /sbin/service pcmcia restart</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
Shutting down PCMCIA services: done.<br>
Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[3271]: watching 2 sockets<br>
done.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">in /var/log/messages:</span><br>
Jul 6 00:41:27 localhost cardmgr[3272]: socket 0: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter<br>
Jul 6 00:41:28 localhost cardmgr[3272]: 'orinoco_cs' already bound to socket 0<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">[root@localhost mkim]# /sbin/lsmod | grep hostap</span><br>
hostap 116425 0<br>
ieee80211_crypt 6721 1 hostap<br>
<br>
Actually, I installed 'hostapd-0.4.9-11.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm' with
2.6.17-fc4. Then I command the following without changing anything in
file <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>hostapd.conf. Could you tell me what's happening here? Thank you. <br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">[root@localhost mkim]# hostapd -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf</span><br>
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf<br>
ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX): No such device<br>
hostap driver initialization failed.<br>
rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Sun