I booted the 8.10 Ibex Alpha5 LiveCD. Verified that p54pci is the
module loaded for the PCI adapter. Same behavior as previous 8.04.1
version... adapter can be placed into Managed mode only. Using the
older prism54 module, the card supports Managed mode as well Master mode
(to act as an access point, and make my Ubuntu box a Ethernet to 802.11
bridge). Would it be illegal or immoral to diff the two modules to see
why the new module does not support Master mode for my adapter, while
the old prism54 does?
Xserver did not start in 8.10 LiveCD, so I fell back to 8.04.1 and
p54pci module to capture these items...
output of lspci:
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01:06.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism
Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] SMC2802W Wireless PCI
Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at fcffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
results of iwconfig commands:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Repeater
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Secondary
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.
uname -a:
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Linux earth 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64
GNU/Linux
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prism54 does not work - need to use p54pci and p54common
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153350
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