prism2/linux-wlan-ng problems

djzanni · 06-21-2004, 04:50 PM

Welcome to newbie hell.

I'm trying to get a USB wireless adaptor with a prism2 chipset working with my system. I've compiled and installed the kernel and the prism2 modules seem to configure and compile just fine. And

Code:

modprobe prism2_usb

seems to work too. But when I run

Code:

wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable

I get an error message:

Code:

wlanctl-ng: No such device

... what the hell?

Thanks for any help you can give me. I'd gotten this working on RH9, but now I've switched over to Fedora Core 2 (Kernel 2.6.5) and I can't figure out whether I'm doing something differently than I did last time, or whether FC2 has special needs.

Thanks again.

-Dave Z.

djzanni · 06-22-2004, 11:08 AM

So I went back and compiled the wlan stuff again and I noticed these warnings while it was compiling.

Code:

*** Warning: "wlan_unsetup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_usb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_hwremoved" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_usb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "unregister_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_usb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "register_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_usb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_setup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_usb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_rx" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_usb.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_unsetup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_hwremoved" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "unregister_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "register_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_setup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211_resume" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211_suspend" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_rx" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_plx.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_unsetup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_hwremoved" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "unregister_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "register_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_setup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211_resume" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211_suspend" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_rx" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_pci.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "register_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_cs.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_unsetup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_cs.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "unregister_wlandev" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_cs.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_hwremoved" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_cs.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "wlan_setup" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_cs.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "p80211netdev_rx" [/home/dave/downloaded_apps/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20/src/prism2/driver/prism2_cs.ko] undefined!

So when I run the following script I put in my rc.local file as per the README instructions...

Code:

modprobe prism2_usb
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=default authtype=opensystem
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast <yourBroadcast>
route add default gw 192.168.1.1

...I get the following output:

Code:

[root@localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20]# /etc/rc.local
WARNING: Error inserting p80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/p80211.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting prism2_usb (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/prism2_usb.ko): Invalid module format
wlanctl-ng: No such device
wlanctl-ng: No such device
/etc/rc.local: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/etc/rc.local: line 15: `ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast <yourBroadcast>'

What's going on? Maybe this has something to do with the fact that it's the 2.6.5 kernel?

-dave Z.

Ghost_runner · 07-15-2004, 10:36 PM

hmm, i use the prismII card as well, but the pcmcia version, with mine, i had to add lines to /etc/pcmcia/config in order for it to bind the driver, perhaps something similar?