<div dir="ltr">Hello,<br><br>Thanks for your message.<br><br>I have had some time this weekend to take care of this problem.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Pavel Roskin <<a href="mailto:proski@gnu.org">proski@gnu.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 09:36 -0700, Madhusudan Singh wrote:<br>
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</div>Both wlan0 and wifi0 are mentioned. They must be registered.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> ifconfig does not show any wlan0/wifi0 interface after the insertion.<br>
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</div>"ifconfig -a" will show them. The interfaces must be down.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>You are right. I could not bring them up with a simple ifup though. That needed a few additional steps :<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> How do I do that (is it option -g ?) ? If so, what is the argument to<br>
> the command (there is no wlan0 interface, remember) ?<br>
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</div>It's all documented. Please try following the instructions and report<br>
if it doesn't work. I don't have time for hand holding.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the comment. Indeed, I needed to google it a little more. The result is this :<br><br>If I do the following :<br><br>sudo prism2_srec -vv -gp -O /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/pda wlan0 ak010101.hex (this file is from version 1.5.6 of the firmware on <a href="http://linux.junsun.net">linux.junsun.net</a>)<br>
followed by,<br> sudo prism2_srec -vv -rp -O /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/pda wlan0 rf010704.hex (this file is from version 1.7.4 of the firmware)<br><br>and wait a few seconds, I can get Networkmanager to get the interface working again (with WPA support - which I am using to send this email).<br>
<br>The problem now is that once I eject the card, and then re-insert it, I have to load the primary firmware and the station firmware again.<br><br>I do not mind doing that manually in a pinch, but if there were a way to restore this card to its pre-mess up stage, it would be better. You do not need to tell me what I need to do, I will figure out the commands I need. No hand-holding needed.<br>
<br>I imagine I need to use the -f option (the one that got me into this mess to start with) with some version of the primary firmware, but I do not know which.<br><br>Hopefully, I can someday use this card with the orinoco drivers without the need to load the firmware everytime I need to get on the network.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> The kernel is the latest Ubuntu hardy kernel :<br>
> 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux<br>
><br>
> hostap-utils - the latest Ubuntu Hardy version. I believe it is<br>
> 1:0.4.0-1 :<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/net/hostap-utils" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/net/hostap-utils</a><br>
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</div>Please use the latest version <a href="http://0.4.7." target="_blank">0.4.7.</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br>I will update when it gets into kubuntu. For now, it appears to be working with the manual loading of firmware.<br><br>And just in case, you need these details,<br><br>sudo hostap_diag -u wlan0<br>Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'<br>
<br>NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))<br>PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1<br>STAID: id=0x001f v1.7.4 (station firmware)<br><br>Unknown RIDs (Resource IDentifiers)<br><br>With regards,<br><br>MS<br>
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