Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:16:30 -0600
> Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> So I've got angstrom-x11-image installed on my h2200 and I'm trying
>> to get wifi working. I've got a Hawking prism2 card (worked okay in
>> familiar and windoze) and it loads the hostap drivers alright, but
>> never is able to get an ip because when it can't seem to use WEP.
>> Here's what I see in dmesg:
>>
>> <7>[ 2952.140000] ieee80211_crypt_wep: could not allocate crypto API
>> arc4 <4>[ 2952.150000] wlan0: could not initialize WEP: load module
>> hostap_crypt_wep.o
>>
>> And, of course, there is no such module. Or at least not with the
>> distro. Nor do I see one in the feed, or at least not in searching the
>> web package finder.
>
> That message is misleading, hostap_crypt_wep.o reference is leftover
> from dark times ;-). It complains about arc4, kernel-module-arc4 is
> being built for h2200, and should be in the feed.
>
> The reason it's not installed in the image is that h2200 doesn't have
> *builtin* WiFi, so some people will never use WiFi at all, and
> burdening image with WiFi stuff for everyone is not a good thing (at
> least that's Angstrom idea so far - to provide with the image only
> support for builtin hardware, anything else is ipkg away).
>
Actually, something else must be wrong, because even though I
manually load the arc4 module (and then even tried *all* the modules in
the crypt directory), I still get the same message. I noticed also in
dmesg this:
wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware
bug in Host AP mode WEP
<7>[38946.370000] wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround
for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
Don't know if that helps. Also, if wifi isn't builtin -- why is
hostap there? 8-)
Another thing I notice is that when I run ifconfig, I get this:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:30:57:81
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:6478 (6.3 KiB)
Interrupt:30
wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:30:57:81
inet addr:169.254.6.46 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:30
What is this "wlan0:ava" and where is that ip coming from? There is
no access point nearby with that name or ip range, and nothing static in
the /etc/network/interfaces like that.
--
Harmon Seaver
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