Greetings all,

I am having problems with the linux-wlan prism2 driver which seems to refuse to send or receive packets on my wireless network.

I do not have an access point, and have always intended to use my Linux box as the access point using its new Compaq WL200 card. I obviously cannot test the drivers in sta mode (or ad-hoc mode for even more obvious reasons).

The behaviour I am seeing is that the driver is initialised, the AP firmware downloaded, the card goes into AP mode, but it will only ever transmit 10 packets (linux-wlan-ng-0.1.7) or 9 packets (linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre5), and never receives any packets. Other stations (which are running Windows 95 & Windows 2000 respectively using Lucent Orinoco silver cards) recognise that the WL200 is there as my access point in all diagnostics, however they never receive any packets from it (other than the link diagnostics which I assume are being handled by the AP firmware that has been uploaded to the card), and the WL200 never receives any packets from them.

I have tried linux-wlan-ng in both bridging and non-bridging mode with identical results (10 or 9 packets transmitted, 0 received). This is the ifconfig status of the card in non-bridging mode (0.1.8-pre5). Note that the card is being allocated an interrupt but that has never made any difference (even after patching 0.1.7).

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:CA:00:13:19
          inet addr:10.0.2.1 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100

The only error messages that I am now getting during the initialisation are:

Mar 12 19:10:20 wilma kernel: atimwindow not used in Infrastructure mode, ignored.
Mar 12 19:10:20 wilma kernel: prism2mgmt_start: probedelay not supported in prism2, ignored.
Mar 12 19:10:20 wilma kernel: prism2mgmt_start: read(pcfinfo) failed, assume it's not supported, pcf settings ignored.

Looking at the source code the first two seem to be standard warnings, however the third has me perplexed. I have no idea what it means ... does this mean that the PDA image is broken? I have tried using several PDA files but it has never made any difference.

The WL200 card works perfectly in Ad-Hoc mode when I put it in my Windows 2000 desktop, and is at the latest 0.8.0 firmware.

I am at my complete wit's end with this, and it has taken me two weeks to get it compiled and installed and running with this few errors (thanks to the archives from this mailing list!) ... I am that close that I refuse to give up yet!

Can anybody help?

TIA

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