Configuring DWL-520 wireless network card

[Joel Hammer]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:31:28AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> What gets listed in /var/log/messages during all this?


Here is what is seen in /var/log/messages when I run
modprobe prism2_pci:

kernel: prism2_init: prism2_pci.o: 0.2.1-pre15 Loaded
kernel: prism2_init: dev_info is: prism2_pci
kernel: A Prism2.5 PCI device found, phymem:0xdfcff000, irq:10, mem:0xe6d14000
wland[10961]: wland daemon init successful
wland[10961]: netlink socket opened and bound successfully
wlan.agent: /sbin/prism2dl not found, aborting firmware download.
wlan.agent: Failed to enable the device, resultcode= implementation_failure .
wlan.agent: WLAN wlan0 brought up successfully.
wlan.agent: WLAN bringing up layer 3+ with /sbin/ifup

Of interest, other modules, which load without complaint
but don't do anything, like the orinoco.o module, don't
work (iwconfig shows no device) and leave no messages in
messages, but are seen with lsmod.

Joel


> 
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:32:03 -0500
> Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well, I now have a 2.4.23 kernel supposedly with drivers
> > for the Prism 2.5 cards.  I am not sure which driver is
> > the one to use, since on the internet you can find all
> > sorts of recommendations.
> > 
> > The card wasn't automatically detected or configured at
> > boot.
> > 
> > So, I modprobe'd everything I could find which sounded
> > interesting, and only this module loaded and detected
> > the card.
> > 
> > modprobe prism2_pci
> > 
> > iwconfig gives this:
> > 
> > Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 16
> > of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> > Some things may be broken...
> > 
> > wlan0     IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:""
> >           Mode:Auto  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >           Encryption key:off
> > 
> > 
> > All the other drivers either wouldn't load, or loaded
> > without complaint, but iwconfig didn't show anything.
> > 
> > 8211.o
> > airo.o
> > airo_cs.o
> > hermes.o
> > orinoco.o
> > orinoco_cs.o
> > orinoco_pci.o
> > orinoco_plx.o
> > orinoco_tmd.o
> > hostap.o
> > 
> > So far so good.
> > 
> > However, attempts to use iwconfig result in error messages, like:
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
> > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
> >     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.
> > iwconfig wlan0 key 1234-1234-12
> > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> >     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.