<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">This will reset the firmware, so all settings of power, etc will have to be reset. Also note that with 0.4.9 this command will hang the card and cause a kernel panic on 2.6.11 and above if issued too many times in succession. Usually not an issue, But a few thousand resets and it will do it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Good luck...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:18 AM, YAN HE wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="宋体" size="2">Hi, Timur,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="宋体" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="宋体" size="2">I tried your method and it works.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="宋体" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="宋体" size="2">Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="宋体" size="2">YAN</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 9pt 宋体">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 9pt 宋体; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title="timur.alperovich@gmail.com" href="mailto:timur.alperovich@gmail.com">Timur Alperovich</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 9pt 宋体"><B>To:</B> <A title="HostAP@shmoo.com" href="mailto:HostAP@shmoo.com">HostAP@shmoo.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 9pt 宋体"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 03, 2007 8:17 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 9pt 宋体"><B>Subject:</B> Re: help for error after changing mode</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Yan,<BR><BR>I've had a similar issue and I had to reset the card to get it to work properly. You can do that with "iwpriv wlan0 reset 1". Try that. I hope it helps.<BR><BR>Timur<BR><BR>On 8/3/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">YAN HE</B> <<A href="mailto:yanhe@louisiana.edu">yanhe@louisiana.edu</A>> wrote: <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV bgcolor="#cce8cf"> <DIV><FONT size="2">Hello, Everybody,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">I met a strange problem in using hostap driver 0.4.9 for Prism cards. After I inserted the card, the driver could recognize the card and showed the general information after I ran "iwconfig wlan0". However, after I ran "iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed", the essid became empty(""). After that, whatever essid I assigned by running "iwconfig wlan0 essid essidname", the essid was always empty. When I ran "iwlist wlan0 scan", I got the error message "wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down". </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">The version of linux kernel is 2.6.11. I tried both Netgear MA401 16-bit card and D-Link DWL650 16-bit card, and got the same error. The detailed output is attached.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Thanks a lot.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">YAN</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>HostAP mailing list<BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:HostAP@shmoo.com">HostAP@shmoo.com</A><BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap" target="_blank">http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap</A><BR><BR><BR clear="all"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>HostAP mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:HostAP@shmoo.com">HostAP@shmoo.com</A><BR>http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">HostAP mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:HostAP@shmoo.com">HostAP@shmoo.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap">http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>