From: Shahin F. <sh...@ee...> - 2006-01-07 22:55:21
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The gumstix wiki indicates that some individuals have been able to use the Ambicom (known here in the US as Global Wireless) WL110CFC on a gumstix. Unfortunately, we get the following error when trying to load the wlan0 interface: hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0 hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 49, io 0xc4860000-0xc486003f prism2_enable_aux_port: was not enabled!? prism2_enable_aux_port(0) timed out hostap_cs: Initialization failed We even tried upgrading to the newest version of hostap suite. We also get this warning: Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension, but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features may not be available Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Shahin Shahin Farshchi Ph.D. Candidate UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering Laboratory: (310) 206-3995 Cell: (925) 323-2784 http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~shahin |
From: Ethan Soutar-R. <de...@ma...> - 2006-01-08 17:23:55
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I have a the same card and have had a lot of trouble too. I have never seen that error message exactly. One thing I discovered is that changing settings on the wlan0 interface is bad news. It generally makes wtools behave erratically and the card seems to stop communicating with the computer. I have had better luck with wifi0, the other interface mentioned in the error message. I can get that to attach to open networks although it sometimes doesn't seem to care what SSID I specified. I haven't had any luck getting it to completely join a WEP or WPA protected network though. It joins the network well enough to publish ZeroConf services but never gets an IP and the gumstix seems to act weirdly. Hope that helps, Ethan P.S. If anyone has any ideas about the WPA network bit I am all ears. I hope its just a a configuration bungle on my part, but I am stuck trying to figure it out. On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Shahin Farshchi wrote: > The gumstix wiki indicates that some individuals have been able to > use the Ambicom (known here in the US as Global Wireless) WL110CFC > on a gumstix. Unfortunately, we get the following error when > trying to load the wlan0 interface: > > > > hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0 hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc > 5.0, irq 49, io 0xc4860000-0xc486003f prism2_enable_aux_port: was > not enabled!? prism2_enable_aux_port(0) timed out hostap_cs: > Initialization failed > > > > We even tried upgrading to the newest version of hostap suite. We > also get this warning: > > > > Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless > Extension, but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some > driver features may not be available > > > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! > > Shahin > > > > > > Shahin Farshchi > Ph.D. Candidate > UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering > Laboratory: (310) 206-3995 > Cell: (925) 323-2784 > > http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~shahin > > > > |
From: Michael T. <mik...@ap...> - 2006-01-09 19:37:36
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I'm working on the same problem. If anyone gets even a step closer to making this work, please post the info so we can get through this faster. Cheers, Mike Ethan Soutar-Rau wrote: > I have a the same card and have had a lot of trouble too. I have > never seen that error message exactly. One thing I discovered is that > changing settings on the wlan0 interface is bad news. It generally > makes wtools behave erratically and the card seems to stop > communicating with the computer. > > I have had better luck with wifi0, the other interface mentioned in > the error message. I can get that to attach to open networks although > it sometimes doesn't seem to care what SSID I specified. I haven't > had any luck getting it to completely join a WEP or WPA protected > network though. It joins the network well enough to publish ZeroConf > services but never gets an IP and the gumstix seems to act weirdly. > > Hope that helps, > Ethan > P.S. If anyone has any ideas about the WPA network bit I am all ears. > I hope its just a a configuration bungle on my part, but I am stuck > trying to figure it out. > > On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Shahin Farshchi wrote: > >> The gumstix wiki indicates that some individuals have been able to >> use the Ambicom (known here in the US as Global Wireless) WL110CFC >> on a gumstix. Unfortunately, we get the following error when trying >> to load the wlan0 interface: >> >> >> >> hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0 hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc >> 5.0, irq 49, io 0xc4860000-0xc486003f prism2_enable_aux_port: was >> not enabled!? prism2_enable_aux_port(0) timed out hostap_cs: >> Initialization failed >> >> >> >> We even tried upgrading to the newest version of hostap suite. We >> also get this warning: >> >> >> >> Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless >> Extension, but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some >> driver features may not be available >> >> >> >> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! >> >> Shahin >> >> >> >> >> >> Shahin Farshchi >> Ph.D. Candidate >> UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering >> Laboratory: (310) 206-3995 >> Cell: (925) 323-2784 >> >> http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~shahin >> >> >> >> > > |
From: Michael T. <mik...@ap...> - 2006-01-09 19:45:49
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The card is detected as Z-Com XI300 11Mb/s WLAN Card. This is apparently OK from what I have read. I've seen three modes: 1. Fails with "prism2_enable_ax_port: was not enabled!?" 2. Registered netdevice wifi0 with index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 49, io 0xc4860000-0xc486003f but locking up after wifi0: NIC: id=0x801b v1.0.0 wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1 wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.0 and 3. Successful boot with netdevice wifi0 "registered". The same configuration can produce all three cases, just rebooting. I'm thinking race condition or some other problem with the initialization sequence. |