IBM A31p, Actiontec High Rate MiniPCI Card


From: Jonathan Wood (jonwood_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 2002-10-05 18:27:42 UTC


Just wanted to drop a note to the list that the Actiontec High Rate Wireless LAN MiniPCI Combo Card in my IBM A31p works OK (for the most part). I am using the 2002-09-12 release of hostap.

Occasionally device initialization fails with "could not get own MAC address". The driver seems to load OK, but the MAC address is all zeros, and nothing works. I saw some discussion of this on the list in early Sept, but saw no resolution for it.

Here is my dmesg output:

hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 2002-09-12 (SSH Communications Security Corp, Jou
ni Malinen)
hostap_pci: (c) Jouni Malinen <jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi>

PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.2
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0

prism2_hw_init()
prism2_hw_config: initialized in 17520 iterations
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6
wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc01, len=10 (expected 
6)
wlan0: could not get own MAC address
wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfd42, len=8 (expected 6)
wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wlan0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf8000000, irq=11


Interestingly, I sometimes also see other RID len mismatch complaints, both with and without the MAC problem. For example:

hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 2002-09-12 (SSH Communications Security Corp, Jou
ni Malinen)
hostap_pci: (c) Jouni Malinen <jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi>

PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:00.2
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wlan0

prism2_hw_init()
prism2_hw_config: initialized in 17523 iterations
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.6
wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc06, len=4 (expected 2)
wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc83, len=4 (expected 2)
wlan0: hfa384x_get_rid - RID len mismatch: rid=0xfc09, len=4 (expected 2)
wlan0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wlan0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf8000000, irq=11


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