Eric to the rescue, again. Thanks - I'll try that straight away. And next time, I'll check the help file first. Whoops; sorry for any wasted time.
-joe. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Spakman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:57:12 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Prism2 Wireless HostAP Success, and a few questions. > Hi Joe, > > If everything works as designed you can load the firmware by putting > it in the /etc/firmware/hostap directory and load it by setting > something like this in the /etc/network/interfaces file (as described > in the hostapu help file :-): > > auto wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > hostname foo > fw_primary /etc/firmware/hostap/pm010102.hex > fw_secondary /etc/firmware/hostap/rf010800.hex > > You only need hostapu.lrp, that one contains the necessary if-pre-up > script and some hostap utilities. The hostapd.lrp package can be used > for extended 802.11 management (http://hostap.epitest.fi/) > AFAIK you need the wireless.lrp package (and libm.lrp dependency) to > set up the wlan interface, wireutil.lrp is not necessary. > > Regards, > Eric Spakman > > > > > Hi, all. > > > > I've recently got BuC-2.2 running on a new system for testing - great setup, > > everyone; nice work - and I'm now trying to get it to "play nice" with my Prism2 > > DWL-520E wireless PCI card. To do so, I've I've actually had success getting the > > card up and running by using the following procedure: > > > > 1. load hostap, hostap_crypt_wep, hostap_pci (in that order)...this should bring > > up both a wifi0 and wlan0 device > > > > 2. load PRI and STA firmware onto the card, using prism2_srec. For some reason, > > the "hostap-utils" script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d isn't doing this all by > > itself, which I thought it would. Anyway, firmware loads well manually. > > > > 3. start (or restart) the hostapd daemon (hostap -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf). > > > > At this point, if I ifdown/ifup the wlan0 interface, I get an additional "wlan0ap" > > device when I run "ip addr show", which seems like a good thing. In addition, a > > test laptop client running Windows2000 can see the signal when looking at the > > right channel, with the right ESSID, etc. The only problem so far is that I can't > > seem to get an actual connection, so I'm still working on that. > > > > My questions are the following: > > > > 1. I'm currently loading hostapd.lrp and hostapu.lrp. It doesn't look like I need > > hostapu, since that only does PCMCIA stuff. Do I also need libm, wireless, and > > wireutil? I loaded those at one point, and they seemed to screw stuff up. Sorry > > for the vagueness. > > > > 2. How can I make sure that "hostap-utils" is running to inject firmware onto the > > Prism card? I guess I'm asking, "when does the if-pre-up.d directory get parsed > > and run? > > > > > > Thanks for all your help so far with my LEAF projects. I've been running another > > BuC-2.0-rc1 router (no wireless) for ages, and it's flawless. Thanks especially > > to Eric Spakman for his help with some prickly wireless problems in the past. > > > > > > -joe. > > -- > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idP47&alloc_id 808&op�ick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > > > -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idP47&alloc_id808&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
