[Prism54-devel] ISL 3893 and initialization

[Fabian Fagerholm]

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On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 00:10, Erich Schubert wrote:
> I don't need to load firmware - it's already loaded by the bootloader
> before the linux kernel is started - but i need to setup the proper
> options using setoid.
> For example the SSID setting appears to be locked somehow; using
> "setoid eth1 10000002 ssid whatever" i cannot set the ssid.
> And there is probably a couple more OIDs i need to set to get the
> interface into host mode. :-(

If you're using a recent version of the driver from prism54.org, you
should probably be using the iwconfig utility instead of setoid.

"iwconfig eth1 essid whatever" will set the ssid, and
"iwconfig eth1 mode Managed" will set the access mode to a standard
host.

> Can anyone help me with properly initializing the wlan port?

In my setup, I find that I may have to do "ifconfig eth1 up" before
issuing the iwconfig commands, so try that if you run into problems with
the above. (Caveat: this may be due to some error in my setup.)

> Do you have any information on the access-point mode of the 389x
> chipset?

The iwconfig utility can at least be used to set the driver/hardware
into access-point mode:
"iwconfig eth1 mode Master".

I don't know much else -- is there generally some things an AP should be
able to do that a regular host can't?

I suspect that at least in /proc/net/wireless, there will be some
information of interest, and the iw* -utlities (ls /sbin/iw*) may be of
some use.

I do hope this information proves to be useful, and do keep the
prism54-devel list up-to-date on your findings!

Cheers,
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Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>

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