[ltp] Cisco mini-pci wifi card & airo-linux driver

[Juergen Stuber]

I'd also like to get rid of the Cisco driver,
the GUI is horrible and it doesn't survive a suspend.


So I installed airo_mpi in the kernel sources 2.4.21
(copied airo_mpi.c, airo.c, mic.h and airo.h, modified Makefile
adding airo_mpi.o to

export-objs     := airo.o orinoco.o hermes.o airo_mpi.o

and adding line

obj-m                           += airo_mpi.o
), it compiled ok, install kernel, reboot, modprobe airo_mpi,
the card is found

Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: airo:  Probing for PCI adapters
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: setting host_addr to 29823000
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:02.0
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: MAC_DISABLE: stat = 7f02 r0 = 0 r1 = 0 r2 = 0
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: cap rid len = 132
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: writerid rc = 0
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: writerid rc = 0
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: Writing SSID rc = 0
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: airo: MAC enabled eth1 0:2:8a:31:cd:5b
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: init_airo_card returns e94e0000
Jul  4 19:59:56 freitag kernel: airo:  Finished probing for PCI adapters

wireless-tools are new to me, I'm playing around with /etc/network/interfaces
to enter the key of my wlan, doing a few ifup/ifdown eth1

Jul  4 20:09:21 freitag kernel: cap rid len = 132
Jul  4 20:09:45 freitag pumpd[993]: terminating at root's request
Jul  4 20:09:50 freitag kernel: writerid rc = 0
Jul  4 20:09:50 freitag kernel: Writing SSID rc = 0

then after a while

Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: writerid rc = 0
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: Writing SSID rc = 0
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: cap rid len = 132
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: Setting key 0
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: writerid rc = 0
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: airo: Max tries exceeded waiting for command 121
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: writerid rc = ffff
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: airo:  WEP_PERM set ffff
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag kernel: COMMAND_BUSY!
Jul  4 20:15:56 freitag pumpd[1087]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:17:56) Fri Ju
l  4 20:15:56 2003  

and my network layer hangs.
I use Debian with wireless-tools 26-1.


Any clues?

Jürgen

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