Well, THAT'S good news; thanks. I was beginning to think I was going out of my mind. And I never would have thought about the card not having an onboard flash...what a stupid idea. The hostap development site and mailing-list are better resources than I hoped, too.
I'd appreciate it, though, if someone could point me in the correct direction for learning about development on my uClibc system. It appears that I can inject firmware onto the card using the current CVS hostap drivers and the prism2_srec utility...thing is, I need to compile them from source. Concerning this, I'm sorry to say, I'm a total newb. How do I start? Are there .lrps for this purpose, to build right on my Bering box? Or do I need a separate development box? Seems like an awful lot of trouble for a couple modules. But then, that's why Linux does what we want it to, right? Thanks for your help. -joe. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:42:09 -0600 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Hostap Issues with Bering and Dlink -520. > Hi.. > > The DWL520 revE is indeed a prism3 card, so Hostap WILL run it... the deal > is, those cards have no firmware on them. just a blank flash, you have the > load the firmware at driver load time. This requires a recent kernel, and > the LATEST CVS drivers... Do some research on the hostap mailing list... > quite a bit about it. http://hostap.epitest.fi > > Good luck. > > Jerryf > > > > > Hi, everybody. > > > > I'm having a heap of trouble with my uClibc wireless setup, and I'm hoping > that someone can suggest where I've gone wrong. Please let me know what > additional info I should supply, as well. > > > > I'm running uClibc-2.1-rc1 on a Dell Pentium II system, booting off a CF > card. Works nicely, and that took some time in and of itself. I have what > I believe to be the appropriate wireless.lrp and wireutil.lrp packages > included, along with the following modules (appropriate to this kernel): > hostap, hostap_pci, hostap_crypt_wep, hostap_crypt, p80211, and prism2_pci. > Now, here's the iffy part - I'm using a Dlink DWL-520 (rev.E) 802.11b card, > which my research has suggested is, indeed, has a Prism2-compatible chipset. > This ISN'T the -520+, in other words. > > > > Anyway, I'm able to use p80211.o and prism2_pci.o, in that order, to get > the card recognized - which suggests to me that the chipset IS Prism. And > by "recognized," I mean that "ip addr show" gives me a wlan0 interface, > which had been previously set-up in the etc/interfaces file. Okay. The > problem is that iwconfig gives no MAC address and no AP data; furthermore, > issuing "iwconfig wlan0 essid default," etc. produces the result, "Function > not implemented." Huh? The ifup command, by the way, doesn't do anything > special either, even when essid, channel, etc. are declared in the > etc/interfaces file in the first place. > > > > Alternatively, I've tried using the hostap modules - specifically, > hostap_crypt, hostap_crypt_wep, hostap, and hostap_pci - in that order, > which gives the result "hostap_pci - device not found," or somesuch. What's > going on here? I'd like to be able to test connectivity, but I can't even > get the card running. > > > > I can get other interfaces running nicely - this is my second Bering box, > and the first one (no wireless setup) has been running flawlessly for > months. Thanks, in part, to your help. I hope that you folks can offer > suggestions this time, as well. > > > > 1. If I don't have a Prism2 card, please offer a hint as to what driver > would work/what new card to buy. > > 2. If I'm loading modules incorrectly, loading incorrect modules, please > point out my ignorance. > > 3. If I need to present more information, let me know. > > 4. If I'm going completely in the wrong direction, feel free to berate me. > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > > -joe. > > -- > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. 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