My Senao/EnGenius 200mW WiFi card was working fine for a few years, and now,
after some upgrade and a power-outage that caused a reboot, it's not. I
cannot figure out for the life of me what is wrong now. It's been two days
of constant debugging and I'm out of ideas. I'm trying to use the kernel
2.6.15-gentoo-r1 hostap and pcmcia drivers as per the suggestions I've read
that have depricated the alternatives. It's frustrating, because the card
appears to be recognized and I don't see any errors anywhere to debug
further.
daevid ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Starting wlan0
* Bringing up wlan0
* 10.10.10.1/24
* network interface wlan0 does not exist
* Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)
daevid ~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:3B:65:87
inet addr:24.17.255.202 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:363967 (355.4 Kb) TX bytes:35779 (34.9 Kb)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:3B:65:88
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4112 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:7001 (6.8 Kb)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1096 (1.0 Kb) TX bytes:1096 (1.0 Kb)
daevid ~ # iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan0ap IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
daevid ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
hostap_cs 61080 1
hostap 112260 1 hostap_cs
tuner 43556 0
tvaudio 22300 0
bttv 157264 0
video_buf 17412 1 bttv
v4l2_common 4992 1 bttv
btcx_risc 4232 1 bttv
tveeprom 14096 1 bttv
videodev 7424 1 bttv
nvidia 4547284 0
daevid ~ # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wireless.rules
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:02:6f:09:b2:b4", NAME="wlan0"
daevid ~ # dmesg
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 376 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9
wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in
Host AP mode WDS
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
daevid ~ # esearch pcmcia
* sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
Latest version available: 3.2.8-r2
Latest version installed: 3.2.8-r2
* sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-cis
Latest version available: 3.2.8-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-modules
Latest version available: 3.2.8
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-pnptools
Latest version available: 3.2.8
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
* sys-apps/pcmciautils
Latest version available: 013
Latest version installed: 013
* virtual/pcmcia
Latest version available: 2.6.13
Latest version installed: 3.2.8-r2
daevid ~ # esearch udev
* sys-fs/udev
Latest version available: 103
Latest version installed: 103
daevid ~ # pccardctl info
PRODID_1="INTERSIL"
PRODID_2="HFA384x/IEEE"
PRODID_3="Version 01.02"
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0156,0002
FUNCID=6
daevid ~ # pccardctl ls
Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:00:08.0)
Socket 0 Device 0: [hostap_cs] (bus ID: 0.0)
daevid ~ # pccardctl status
Socket 0:
3.3V 16-bit PC Card
Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "hostap_cs"
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