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> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:14 PM
> To: Daevid Vincent
>
> Daevid Vincent wrote:
> > After the essentially forced upgrade, I'm now running kernel
> > 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (udev) from 2.6.9 (devfs).
> >
> > I have a Senao Engenius 200 mW PCMCIA card in a PCMCIA/PCI
> adapter in my
> > server -- this card is then the wireless AP for my network.
> >
> > I can't get my wlan0 to show up like it used to, therefore
> hostapd won't
> > start.
> >
> ...
> >
> > So, what am I missing or not doing right?
> >
>
> I'm having the same trouble with a prism2 PCI card. I've worked on it
> all day with no luck.
>
> I've tried wlan-ng which no longer supports pci. I've tried the
> orinoco_pci driver which I dont think I've ever gotten to work on this
> card, and I've tried both the hostap_pci drivers from the kernel (V
> 0.4.4) and the seperate hostap-drivers (V 0.4.7) and none of them
> work.
>
> I was deep into digging apart udev rules before I remembered that
> network devices dont show up in /dev so I'm not sure if it is a udev
> problem or something else that was upgraded.
I had a friend help me, but I believe the jist of it was.
I didn't have PCMCIA complied into the kernel (it used to be an external
ebuild, but now it's IN the 2.6.15 kernel)
daevid linux # grep PCMCIA .config
# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)
# PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL=y
# PCMCIA SCSI adapter support
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_AHA152X is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_FDOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_QLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_SYM53C500 is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_WAVELAN is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETWAVE is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_RAYCS is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_SPECTRUM is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_WL3501 is not set
# PCMCIA network device support
# CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA is not set
# PCMCIA character devices
# PCMCIA devices
I think I did have to get some new updated PCMCIA tools.
"esearch pcmcia" should get you in the ballpark.
These are what I have installed. Don't know if I still need the bottom two
anymore?
* sys-apps/pcmciautils
Latest version available: 012
Latest version installed: 012
Size of downloaded files: 40 kB
Homepage:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
Description: PCMCIA userspace utilities for Linux kernel 2.6.13 and
beyond
License: GPL-2
* sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
Latest version available: 3.2.8-r2
Latest version installed: 3.2.8-r2
Size of downloaded files: 1,242 kB
Homepage: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net
Description: PCMCIA tools for Linux
License: GPL-2
* virtual/pcmcia
Latest version available: 2.6.13
Latest version installed: 3.2.8-r2
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/
Description: Virtual for PCMCIA userspace tools
License: GPL-2
I also didn't have host_ap complied properly:
daevid linux # grep HOST .config
CONFIG_HOSTAP=y
# CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE is not set
CONFIG_HOSTAP_PLX=y
CONFIG_HOSTAP_PCI=y
CONFIG_HOSTAP_CS=m
I also think I had to make a udev rule:
daevid rules.d # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wireless.rules
KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:02:6f:x1:y2:z3", NAME="wlan0"
It's kinda irritating that you end up with all these extra network
interfaces that are all the same :(
daevid rules.d # iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"MATRIX" Nickname:"MATRIX"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:02:6f:x1:y2:z3
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=65534 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"MATRIX" Nickname:"MATRIX"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:02:6f:x1:y2:z3
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=65534 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:9442 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:150911 Invalid misc:12353035 Missed
beacon:0
wlan0ap IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"MATRIX" Nickname:"MATRIX"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:02:6f:x1:y2:z3
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=65534 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
That's all I can recall at the moment. I hope that helps you.
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