<div>Hi, I origally posted this to the wpasupplicant list and Kel suggested this was a better place to get help with Prism 2.5 based cards.<br></div>
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<div>Background. I've been trying to get WPA going on my Thinkpad A31p for a
while. Because I couldn't get WPA working, recently I did the BIOS
patch that would allow me to use a non IBM wifi card. The only other
card I had was a Winston CM-9 (Atheros) and I had madwifi and wpa
supplicant running great. Problem is my laptop saw it as another
Ethernet controller and would fight and be unstable. Every time I
would apply power it would try to PXE boot etc. so I had to go back to
trying to get the Prism 2.5 radio working.</div>
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<div>So to recap, I was able to associate and get connectivity with
madwifi & wpa supplicant. With the Prism card, my first problem
was it had old firmware and I finally figured out how to upgrade
(couldn't find the PDA files was my problem for the longest time) the
Primary and Station firmware and I now have what is reported below.
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<div>hostap_diag reports:</div>
<div>NICID: id=8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))</div>
<div>PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1</div>
<div>STAID: id=0x001f v1.7.4 (station firmware)</div>
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<div>For some reason dmesg shows the card showing up as wifi0 and then I see a line where wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0</div>
<div>Then I see a line where udev renamed wlan0 to eth2 and when I do a
iwconfig I see my wireless card showing up twice under the names eth2
and wlan0_rename. I think I need to work on some udev rules to fix
this ... I guess it should be called wlan0.
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<div>My interfaces file looks like this:</div>
<div>auto eth2</div>
<div>iface eth2 inet dhcp</div>
<div> wpa-driver hostap (have tried wext or just nothing and I get the same result)</div>
<div> wpa-bssid 00:12:a9:d1:e1:2e</div>
<div> wpa-pairwise TKIP CCMP</div>
<div> wpa-group TKIP CCMP</div>
<div> wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK</div>
<div> wpa-auth-alg OPEN SHARED LEAP</div>
<div> wpa-sid mysid</div>
<div> wpa-psk mypsk</div>
<div> wpa-proto WPA RSN</div>
<div> wpa-ap-scan 1 (have tried 2 as well)</div>
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<div>kernel is 2.6.22 and I can provide .config if needed. At first
hostap, hermes, and prism_pci were showing up in the modules list and I
read where they need to be black listed so rather I rebuilt the kernel
again to not include these and now hostap is the only one that shows up
loaded in the modules list. lsmod | grep hostap has hits on these
modules being loaded: hostap_pci, hostap and ieee80211_crypt
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<div>On bootup, the interface tries to come up but DHCP never gets a
response. I have firewall rules that allows the wireless traffic not
to get blocked (again this all worked with madwifi & an Atheros
card so I know my rules work). </div>
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<div>I run iwevent in another window and the only event I see is the station mode being set to Managed. I don't see anything else.</div>
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<div>I do a ps and grep for wpa and I see that wpa_supplicant is running. I've tried it with both the wap-driver hostap and wext.</div>
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<div>I have a mixed system of testing & unstable. wpa-supplicant
is 0.6.0-2. wireless tools is the latest, version 29 which I had to
download and compile myself to get rid of the warnings of iwconfig etc.
being a different version from the extensions in the kernel.
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<div>Can someone point me in the direction I should go to debug this
further? Let me know what other information you need and I'll provide
it.<br><br>I'd like to see someones .config for a recent kernel like 2.6.22 too so I can double check I configured everything in the kernel right.<br></div>
<div> </div>Regards,<span>
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<div>Brian</div></span>