linux-wlan-ng and prism2 card...ugghh, won't work.

Benanzo · 08-12-2006, 04:34 AM

Hey there,

I just got an intersil prism2 wireless B card for native use with linux. I've previously been using a linksys wpc54g card with ndiswrapper but wanted to get away from using *anything* windows-related, plus I wanted the monitor mode. My problem:

I have very little idea how to configure this card to connect to my AP. The info I've been able to gather from hours of googling isn't paying off. I can go into monitor mode no prob since kismet makes the switch for it automatically, but when I quit kismet it says it's unable to exit monitor mode and that I'll have to do it manually. I have tried fixing the wlan.conf and wlancfg-(myessid) files to state what I want but none of it makes any difference. Even when I fire up ethereal to watch what my card is *trying* to do, I don't even get an arp request. I think this must have something to do with the wlanctl-ng scripts but I'm not sure. ALSO: is it possible that something is screwy because both my prism2 card and my linksys coexist (albeit not at the same time) and are both called wlan0??? if so, how would I go about calling one wlan1? Thanks!

mandriva 2006 2.6.12-12mdk linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3 (compiled for source)

also I would have put this to the wlan-ng mailing list but I just timeout when trying to connect everyday, anyone know if they're offline??

2Gnu · 08-13-2006, 06:56 PM

I have never liked the way wlan-ng breaks Wireless Tools or used its own, cryptic commands. A patched or RC2 orinoco_cs driver will work fine with your Prism card without the headaches.

http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/

Benanzo · 08-14-2006, 02:01 AM

Yeah, I realize that the linux-wlan-ng driver is not very user friendly and that I should switch over to the orinoco driver. Does anyone know how to uninstall the wlan-ng driver? I kept the source directory but can't do a make uninstall and there aren't any directions. PLUS: how do I go about binding the orinoco module to my card because when I insert it mandriva automatically loads it's own prism2_cs (or wlan-ng's) module and can't get it to accept the orinoco driver via the control center configuration. Would it work (just for the time being) to do rmmod prism2_cs then modprobe (orinoco module). I can't get it to recognize my card even though it's loaded. When I unplug then replug my card with the orinoco driver loaded it just reloads the prism2_cs module and uses the card from that. Any ideas?

Thanks.

2Gnu · 08-14-2006, 11:27 AM

Try editing your /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf file to include these lines:

Code:

card "Orinoco or Intersil Prism 2 Wireless"
  manfid 0x0156,0x0002
  bind "orinoco_cs"

Disclaimer: I'm still living in a 2.4 kernel world and I know some of the newest 2.6 stuff is different.