wvlan_cs/orinoco_cs & linksys wap11 AP

kiss the sun and walk on air peter.royal at pobox.com
Fri Dec 14 00:25:15 EST 2001 

I am writing in reference to the potential problems in the message at
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/2001-May/002499.html
relating to the linksys wap11 AP.

I have an Intersil PRISM2 card built into my laptop (toshiba tecra
8200), and it works fine with either the wvlan_cs or the orinoco_cs
drivers. I am currently using pcmcia-cs v3.1.29, which has orinoco_cs
v0.06a / orinoco 0.08a. I also observed the same problems using the kernel 2.4.16
PCMCIA support which has orinoco_cs v0.08a.

I move between two Linksys WAP11 APs, one at home and one at
work. Whenever I reach the other location I must always cycle the
power on the AP otherwise I get the 44:44:44:44:44:44 for the Access
Point under iwconfig. This is after a cold boot, I always shut down my
machine when moving between the office and home.

Here is iwconfig eth0 when I'm at home:
eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"girl"  Nickname:"leela"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432GHz  Access Point:
	  00:04:5A:CD:D2:9C
          Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:39/92  Signal level:-54 dBm  Noise level:-93
	  dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

And the syslog information from when I booted here last night:
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela cardmgr[202]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps
Wireless Adapter
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela cardmgr[202]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: hermes.c: 3 Oct 2001 David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela cardmgr[202]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: orinoco.c 0.08a (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela cardmgr[202]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela cardmgr[202]: + Warning: loading
/lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o will taint the kernel: no
license
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: dldwd: David's Less Dodgy WaveLAN/IEEE
Driver
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.06f (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x03bf: clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04cf: clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: Station identity
001f:0001:0006:000e
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware
version 6.14
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode
supported.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:33:96:8E
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: ready
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io
0x0100-0x013f
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela cardmgr[202]: executing: './network start eth0'
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:07.0
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.2
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:0d.1
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela pumpd[279]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:00:13)
Wed Dec 12 18:07:34 2001
Dec 12 18:07:34 leela pumpd[279]: PUMP: sending discover


pumpd goes on to fail until I reset the AP and I lock on to it and
then can get an IP.

Here is the syslog output from when I booted at work yesterday
morning:
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela cardmgr[191]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: orinoco.c 0.08a (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela cardmgr[191]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela cardmgr[191]: + Warning: loading
/lib/modules/2.4.16/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o will taint the kernel: no
license
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: dldwd: David's Less Dodgy WaveLAN/IEEE
Driver
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.06f (David Gibson
<hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x03bf: clean.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04cf: clean.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: Station identity
001f:0001:0006:000e
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware
version 6.14
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode
supported.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: WEP supported, "128"-bit key.
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:33:96:8E
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: ready
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela cardmgr[191]: executing: './network start eth0'
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io
0x0100-0x013f
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:07.0
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.2
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:0d.1
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela pumpd[268]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:00:13)
Wed Dec 12 09:31:57 2001
Dec 12 09:31:57 leela pumpd[268]: PUMP: sending discover

Any assitance would be appreciated. I think it is something similar to
what Jean mentioned in the archive message I link to above, a problem
with the AP. Oh, and each AP has a different ESSID and a different
freqency set.

Thanks!
-pete

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