Re: Is my card dead?

From: Jason Boxman (jasonb_at_edseek.com)
Date: 2002-09-12 18:47:41 UTC


On Thursday 12 September 2002 02:14 pm, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:43:20PM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> > It initialized, but LinkStatus=2 seems permanent. It fails to function
> > in IBSS mode, it seems to fail in Infrastructure mode, and now I'm
> > getting a log flood of these strange messages:
> >
> > Sep 12 13:40:02 rebecca kernel: wlan0: prism2_send_mgmt - device is not
> > UP - cannot send frame
> > Sep 12 13:40:02 rebecca kernel: wlan0: 00:06:25:a9:f7:da auth (alg=0
> > trans#=1 stat=0 len=6fc=00b0) ==> 0 (authenticated)
>
> This looks fine. New version of the driver requires that wlan# is set up
> for the management messages. Your card seem to be receiving
> authentication frames correctly, so just run 'ifconfig wlan0 up' and it
> should be able to reply to them. Adhoc/Managed mode failures do not
> sound were promising, but at least this piece of log looks OK.

rebecca:/home/jasonb# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1
rebecca:/home/jasonb# iwconfig wlan0 mode master
rebecca:/home/jasonb# iwconfig wlan0 essid vortex
rebecca:/home/jasonb# iwconfig wlan0 channel 7
(inserted client card)
[martian messages]
rebecca:/home/jasonb# ifconfig eth2 down [martian messages go away]

Well, oddly enough the card does work. But I've followed the above proceedure with the 5-19 module, my CVS from Sept 3rd, and today's release, and until this attempt, it failed. I can't explain why. gb2 in #hostap on OPN mentioned he had his card do some weird things and some reboots fixed it, so maybe I caught whatever he had. In any case, it seems to be working, for now.

I am still curious what exactly LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected) means. I still have it, but the card seems to work now, so I guess that message isn't necessarily a bad thing as it seemed to be earlier when my card wasn't working at all?

Sep 12 14:38:45 rebecca kernel: hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' Sep 12 14:38:45 rebecca kernel: hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 2002-09-12 (SSH Communications Security Corp, Jouni Malinen) Sep 12 14:38:45 rebecca kernel: hostap_pci: (c) Jouni Malinen <jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi> 

Sep 12 14:38:45 rebecca kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:0b.0
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: prism2_hw_init()
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: prism2_hw_config: initialized in 17524
iterations 
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: wlan0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.5
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: wlan0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xe7000000,
irq=12 
Sep 12 14:38:46 rebecca kernel: wlan0: prism2_open
Sep 12 14:39:23 rebecca kernel: wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
Sep 12 14:39:28 rebecca kernel: wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
[inserted client card here]
Sep 12 14:41:14 rebecca kernel: wlan0: 00:06:25:a9:f7:da auth (alg=0 trans#=1 stat=0 len=6fc=00b0) ==> 0 (authenticated) Sep 12 14:41:14 rebecca kernel: wlan0: 00:06:25:a9:f7:da assoc (len=18 prev_ap=00:00:00:00:00:00) => 0(0) (OK, new AID) Sep 12 14:41:19 rebecca kernel: martian source 192.168.1.3 from 192.168.1.3, on dev wlan0
Sep 12 14:41:19 rebecca kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:25:a9:f7:da:08:06 Sep 12 14:41:19 rebecca kernel: martian source 192.168.1.3 from 192.168.1.3, on dev wlan0
Sep 12 14:41:19 rebecca kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:06:25:a9:f7:da:08:06 Sep 12 14:43:08 rebecca kernel: eth2: remaining active for wake-on-lan 
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Jason Boxman
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