Prism2 Host AP - new release 2002-04-21

From: Jouni Malinen (jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2002-04-21 17:39:23 UTC

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A new version of Prism2 Host AP driver was just released and it is now available from http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/

Note! Driver structure and file names have changed since last release. This requires some manual changes during upgrade - check ChangeLog for more information.

This version includes support for new hardware versions: Prism2.5 cards using native PCI cards and PC Cards in PLX9052-based PCI adapters. Since this version has not been thoroughly tested with different PCI/PLX models, I would call this an experimental release. If you happen to have any problems with it, I would really appreciate hearing about them. Please, include full description of the WLAN card model, firmware versions, and host computer to possible reports.

PLX version of the driver includes a list of known manufacturer IDs for Prism2/2.5 cards. This list is not complete, so please let me know if you have a Prism2/2.5-based WLAN card that works with the driver, but is not yet listed in PLX version (or hostap_cs.conf). Please, include information about card manufacturer and model in addition to manufacturer IDs.

Thanks to Adam Megacz and Janåke Rönnblom, I now have PLX and PCI cards to test the driver. This has been very helpful in getting the PLX/PCI changes merged into the driver. I haven't yet tested with more than one PCI card in one host, but thanks to Alessandro (@server.mycity.it), I should soon be able to do this.

I would especially like to thank Reyk Floeter and Andy Warner for driver patches to add Prism2.5 PCI support and James (@madingley.org) for PLX support. I have modified the driver structure quite a bit, but these patches as well as both linux-wlan-ng and orinoco_cs drivers have been very helpful in adding support for the new hardware versions. In addition, I thank also those who tested a pre-release version of the driver and provided useful feedback for getting PCI/PLX support into working condition.

2002-04-21

• added support for Prism2.5-based native PCI cards and PC Cards in PLX9052-base PCI adapters
  • new module names (to avoid duplicates with linux-wlan-ng): PC Card version: hostap_cs.o PCI version for Prism2.5: hostap_pci.o PLX version: hostap_plx.o
  • please note, that /etc/pcmcia/prism2.conf is renamed to hostap_cs.conf and you may need to manually remove old prism2.conf from /etc/pcmcia
• fixed BAP setup problems (BAP0 and BAP1 cannot apparently be setup correctly, even though they can be used concurrently for reading/writing)
  • this removes at least some corruption problems (e.g., "no SNAP?" messages)
  • this fixes some card hangs (which would usually cause "hfa384x_setup_bap - timeout3" messages)
• re-organized driver source code (see driver_source.txt for details)
• do not allow "Any" (i.e., zero-len) SSID to be set when in Host AP mode (this seems to kill the card)
• fixed byte order bugs in SIOCSIWMODE, SIOCSIWFREQ, and SIOCSIWRATE handlers (affecting big endian platforms)
• fixed WEP configuration to return valid configuration after card reset

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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