Re: [Etherboot-users] Re: etherboot pci wifi

[Hermann G. <eth...@mr...>]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 00:38, Felix M=F6ller wrote:
> I do not have the hardware yet.  I looked into the source and it seems as=
 I
> should buy a card mentioned at the beginning of  drivers/net/prism2_plx.c=
=2E=20
> I started looking on ebay, but didn't find the right card yet.

fortunatly i own such a card ;-)

> As I do not have the hardware yet I'd be happy about someone else testing
> the prism support, but if nobody is able to I will try it in the next wee=
ks
> myself.

i tried with an old tekram tc-400 .... wow what an old card ;-)

i did a to stage loading:

3comMBA -> prism2.pxe -> etherboot-prism boot

the accesspoint has all wep & accesslists and such turned off

all macs are "anomyzed" ;-)

output of etherboot:
=2D-----------------------------------------------
Etherboot 5.4.0 (GPL) http://etherboot.org
Drivers: Prism2_PCI   Images: NBI ELF PXE   Exports: PXE
Protocols: DHCP TFTP
Relocating _text from: [0007ec10,00090b80) to [07eee090,07f00000)
Probing pci nic...
[prism2_pci]Prism2.5 has registers at 0xd9112f70
MAC address 00:02:DD:XX:XX:XX
Attempting to autojoin to any available access point (attempt 1)...done
Link not connected (status 0x0006)
Attempting to autojoin to any available access point (attempt 2)...done
Link connected (BSSID 00:80:C8:XX:XX:XX - MAC address 8F:00:00:XX:XX:XX)
Searching for server (DHCP)...Tx exception occurred with fid 0x01ed
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2ENo IP address
Tx exception occurred with fid 0x0111
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2ENo IP address
Tx exception occurred with fid 0x01ee
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2ENo IP address
Tx exception occurred with fid 0x01cb
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2ENo IP address
Tx exception occurred with fid 0x0249
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2ENo IP address
Tx exception occurred with fid 0x0201
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2ENo IP address
Tx exception occurred with fid 0x039f
hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
 ...retry error
=2E
=2D-----------------------------------------------=20
after here ... it does not progress anymore
=2D-----------------------------------------------=20
accesspoint logfile shows a connection:
Jun/07/2005 11:46:07 	Wireless PC connected 00-02-DD-XX-XX-XX
=2D-----------------------------------------------
tethereal shows one frame with correct source MAC,
but the rest is total ZERO
=2D-----------------------------------------------
$ tethereal -Vx -r prism2-wlan-etherboot.cap frame.number =3D=3D 51
=46rame 51 (60 bytes on wire, 60 bytes captured)
    Arrival Time: Jun  7, 2005 11:36:05.362512000
    Time delta from previous packet: 1.890025000 seconds
    Time since reference or first frame: 8.915167000 seconds
    Frame Number: 51
    Packet Length: 60 bytes
    Capture Length: 60 bytes
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
    Destination: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (Broadcast)
    Source: 00:02:dd:XX:XX:XX (tekram-pc-400)
    Length: 8
    Trailer: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...
Logical-Link Control
    DSAP: NULL LSAP (0x00)
    IG Bit: Individual
    SSAP: NULL LSAP (0x00)
    CR Bit: Command
    Control field: I, N(R)=3D0, N(S)=3D0 (0x0000)
        0000 000. .... .... =3D N(R): 0
        .... .... 0000 000. =3D N(S): 0
        .... .... .... ...0 =3D Frame type: Information frame (0x0000)
Data (4 bytes)

0000  ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 02 dd XX XX XX 00 08 00 00   .........XXX....
0010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00               ............
=2D-----------------------------------------------

i think something does not run correctly

maybe my card is not working correctly, never get it to work
with linux directly .. and the original M$ drivers are a P.I.T.A!! :-o

mfg hermann