Well, nevermind, I fixed it.

I put PCIC_OPTS="irq_mode=1 pci_irq_list=3,4,5,9,11" in my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and it seems to work now!

WHOOOOHOOO!

Chad G. Singer
Network Administrator
WhiteLion.Net Inc.
www.whitelion.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Chad Singer
To: linux-wlan-userabsoval.com
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 3:58 PM
Subject: Bizarre compaq WL200 'Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped' problem.

I've got a problem that isn't very similar to others I've read about on this list. Here's my situation:

Everything seems to be working properly, I'm authenticated with the AP (teletronics), the red-light
on the back of the NIC is solid. When I run wlancfg show wlan0 all the BSSID shows up. The problem
I'm having is that whenever I try to send any packets out I get the message

'Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped'

and that's it. Other than that the card acts like its working perfectly!

I read about certain interrupt problems with this card, however mine seems to be getting a correct IRQ.

I've updated the firmware of the card to the newest version from Compaq's site.

This is what I have:

compaq ProLinea 575e
compaq WL200 PCI card (IRQ 3)
3com Etherlink NIC (IRQ 10)
RedHat 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22
pcmcia card-services 3.1.25
wlan-ng 0.1.8-pre11

Here are some of my pertenent information:

<startup>

Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.25
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: kernel build: 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55 EDT 2000
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] [pnp]
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f7660
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:53ae, dseg at f0000
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: Cirrus PD6729 rev 00 PCI-to-PCMCIA at slot 00:14, port 0x14
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [1/5/0] [1/20/0]
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [1/5/0] [1/20/0]
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,11 polling interval = 1000 ms
Apr 15 15:30:15 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr.
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost cardmgr[358]: starting, version is 3.1.25
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost cardmgr[358]: watching 2 sockets
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost cardmgr[358]: initializing socket 0
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost cardmgr[358]: socket 0: Compaq WL100/200 11Mb/s 802.11b WLAN Card
Apr 15 15:30:16 localhost cardmgr[358]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.8-pre11 Loaded
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x210-0x21f
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0220-0x04ff: clean.
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f // <-- IRQ.
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: ident: nic h/w: id=0x8002 1.0.1
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 0.3.0
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 0.8.0
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x00:b/t=1/1
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x00:b/t=1/1
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=1/2
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/5
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost kernel: Prism2 card SN: 99SA01000000
Apr 15 15:30:17 localhost cardmgr[358]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'

<lsmod>

Module Size Used by
3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
prism2_cs 75776 1
p80211 16560 1 [prism2_cs]
ds 6280 2 [prism2_cs]
i82365 22732 2
pcmcia_core 51008 0 [prism2_cs ds i82365]

</proc/interrupts>

  0: 106547 XT-PIC timer
  1: 434 XT-PIC keyboard
  2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
  3: 0 XT-PIC prism2_cs // <-- IRQ.
  8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
 10: 2739 XT-PIC eth0
 12: 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
 14: 100819 XT-PIC ide0
 15: 2 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0

<route>

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
208.192.202.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
10.0.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default ratbag.whitelio 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

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