hello,

i have troubles getting an epox ewl-a11 access point to work.

kernel is 2.4.18 (debian-r3.0), orinoco-drivers are 0.09b.
the pc-card is a epox ewl-c11 which seems to work (two beeps on insert).
cardctl ident says:
product info: "INTERSIL", "HFA384x/IEEE", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002

configuration in wireless.opts:
ESSID="AP" (taken from the access point's manual)
MODE="Managed"
configuration in network.opts:
IPADDR="192.168.1.1"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK="192.168.1.0"
BROADCAST="10.0.1.255"
GATEWAY="192.168.1.100" (ip-adr of ap)

after running cardctl insert, the led is blinking in a 2-seconds-intervall.

a traceroute to the access point's ip-address looks like:
traceroute to wlap.prv.net (192.168.1.100), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 wlan (192.168.1.1) 2994.088 ms !H 2998.077 ms !H 2998.437 ms !H

and gives messages like this in the syslog:
Aug 31 20:40:44 mtzion kernel: eth1: Error -110 writing packet header to BAP
Aug 31 20:40:44 mtzion kernel: eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=02FE)


here is my configuration after running cardctl insert:

ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04B:00:1C:CA
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:182.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"AP" Nickname:"mtzion.prv.net"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0

route -n
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.100 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth1

here is the syslog of cardctl insert:
Aug 31 20:35:17 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: socket 0: Farallon SkyLINE
Aug 31 20:35:17 mtzion kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0308-0x0377: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x03bf: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04cf: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x84f
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: Station identity 001f:0003:0000:0008
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 0.08
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:04B:00:1C:CA
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: Station name "Prism I"
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: ready
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: executing: './network start eth1'
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: + Fill with your own settings...
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: + /sbin/iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: + /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid "AP"
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: + Sample private network setup
Aug 31 20:35:18 mtzion cardmgr[19970]: + /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 182.168.1.255
Aug 31 20:35:48 mtzion kernel: eth1: Unknown Rx error (0x3). Frame dropped.

thank you in advance
dready

Offhand, I've never heard of the epox ewl-c11, new card to me. Its a Skyline, weird.

One of the issues with wireless drivers has been pcmcia loading the wrong module for the job. When the Prism2 cards hit the street, cardmgr mis-identified them as orinoco cards and loaded the old wvlan_cs module, which didn't do anything for them. Taking that into account, lets see if Deb is loading the right code for the job. Take the output of:

cardctl ident

and compare it to the list on Jean's uber-wireless page:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...s.drivers.html

If this is the right driver, then there are a number of configuration things to try and hammer through.

Cheers,

Finegan