[MLB-WIRELESS] Kernel panic

Ryan Abbenhuys sneeze at alphalink.com.au
Fri Aug 9 07:59:21 EST 2002


That whole initialization hooha stuff is correct.
The problem is probably the HostAP version he's using.  I'm using the latest
CVS version and works fine. The driver in the CVS version has practically been
rewritten compared to the last official release verion of 5-19.

>At 08:55 PM 8/08/2002, sanbar wrote:
>>Ey all,
>>I have a WL200 running under Linux. It fires up okay, and I can raise set

>>the card in full Master mode, but after a short while it suffers from a
>>kernel panic, seemingly at random. I no understand.
>>Output from uname, iwconfig and dmesg is after the sig. Apologies for the

>>size of this message, but it's relevant to wireless. OS is Red Hat 7.3.
>>Please snip before you reply :/
>
>ahh redhat. i promise nothing ... but advice.
>
>>[root at wlan root]# iwconfig wlan0
>>Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version 12
>>of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 11.
>>Some things may be broken...
>
>unpack the kernel into /usr/src/linux, and install pcmcia-cs-3.2.0 and 
>patch/install over with orinoco-0.12b.tar.gz from source, or from whatever

>distribution package you have. i.e. thats the latest version for me, pick 

>the latest version of pcmcia-cs for your distribution..  (the order to 
>install, versions & incompatibilities of all the various wavelan / orinoco

>drivers is one of those 'linux' things you get used to)
>
>then
>cp /usr/src/linux/include/linux/wireless.h /usr/include/linux
>
>to get rid of the "device has been compiled with version ..." error. you 
>will also need to recompile the wireless-tools package to get rid of the 
>above message. wireless extensions v14 comes with a few new devices and 
>behaviours, your problems might be solved or made worse.
>
>>hostap_cs: hostap_cs.c 0.0.0 2002-05-19 (SSH Communications Security Corp,

>>Jouni Malinen)
>>hostap_cs: (c) SSH Communications Security Corp <jkm at ssh.com>
>>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
>>hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
>>prism2_config()
>>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
>>CISTPL_MANFID: 0x0138, 0x0002
>>Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
>>Config has no IRQ info, but trying to enable IRQ anyway..
>>IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
>>io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
>>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x3c0-0x3df
>>cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff: clean.
>>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
>>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
>>hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
>>hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
>>prism2_hw_init()
>>prism2_hw_config: initialized in 9449 iterations
>>wlan0: NIC: id=0x8002 v1.0.1
>>wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
>>wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v0.8.0
>>Using data::nullfunc ACK workaround - firmware upgrade recommended
>
>hmm. check that out, see what the author asks for/requires in terms of 
>firmware versions.
>it might also modify the behaviour as seen below.
>
>>spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>>prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x01f8 - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x01f9 - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x01fa - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x01fb - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>>wlan0: prism2_open
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x0289 - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x028a - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>>prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 2 -> 3
>>wlan0: INFO - fid=0x028b - len=2 type=0xf200
>>   LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
>
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