[H-GEN] Wireless networking under Debian stable

Sun Dec 9 22:39:26 EST 2007

On 8 Dec 2007, at 08:32, Clinton Roy wrote:

>> Here are the error messages from ifup eth0
>>
>> frodo:/home/helen# ifup eth0
>> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
>> WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - Internet Systems Consortium DHCP  
>> Client V3.0.4
>
> Have you tried the hostap driver instead of the wext driver?

Just tried then. No luck, just a different set of error messages:

frodo:~# ifup eth0
prism2: eth0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
eth0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

eth0: unknown hardware address type 801
eth0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/eth0/
Sending on   LPF/eth0/
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
No DCHPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping
frodo:~#

I tried using a static address rather than DHCP, but that caused the  
computer to hang. Here are some (but not all) of the error messages:
eth0: Preferred AP (SIOCSIWAP) is used only in Managed mode when  
host_roaming is
  enabled
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c7ba1ea0, type=0, res=0)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c7ba1ea0,  
type=0, cmd
=0x0002, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010)
hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
eth0: gaf384x_cmd: entry still in list (entry=c7461960, type=0, res=0)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c7461960,  
type=0, cmd
=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=0000 INTEN=0010)
eth0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=d69fb420, type=0, res=0)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=d69fb420,  
type=0, cmd
=0x0001, param0=0x000, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010)
eth0: MAC port 0 enabling failed
eth0: could not enable MAC port
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c7461960, type=0, res=0)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c7461960,  
type=0, cmd
=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010)
eth0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? entry=db69fb420, type=0, res=0)
eth0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=db69fb420,  
type=0, cmd
=0x0002, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010
hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device

I then had to use the off switch to reboot the machine...

I tried a number of other drivers under wpa-driver but they did not  
work either. I think that hostap is the one that *should* work, from  
what dmesg says (see below).

>> The card I'm using is a PCMCIA D-Link DWL-650. From some googleing,  
>> it
>> seems that not all revisions of this card work with WPA so this could
>> be my problem. However, I'm hoping it's not that.
>
> It's certainly true that some configurations of WPA require help from
> the card, I don't know too much about it though.

Here is a bit from dmesg which might suggest what part of the problem  
could be:

found SMC SuperIO Chip (devid=0x0a rev=00 base=0x00e0): FDC37N971
smsc_ircc_present: can't get sir_base of 0x3e8
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x100-0x107
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x100-0x107
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
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: , irq 3, io 0x0140-0x017f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 196 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.5
wifi0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for  
firmware bug in Host AP mode WEP
wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug  
in Host AP mode WDS
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel  
Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel  
Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
es1968: clocking to 48000

and a little later on:

pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: discover.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please  
expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html 
  for details.
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
prism2: eth0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
eth0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
eth0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
ACPI: Battery Slot [C0FE] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [C0FF] (battery absent)
ACPI: Battery Slot [C100] (battery absent)
ACPI: AC Adapter [C0F6] (on-line)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [C057]
ACPI: Lid Switch [C16B]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0_rename: link is not ready
eth0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
eth0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

It's odd it starts off as wlan0 and then changes to eth0...

gavin,

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