D-link Dcf-660w With R198, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn' Options

[dproldan]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what's wrong with my card, hope you can help me.

I have a SL-C1000 with r198 installed and Meanie's SP4 applied.
I define all the network settings before plugging in the card as wlan0.

when I plug it in, it connects fine for some 30 seconds and then disconnects. from that point, nothing makes sense to me.

sometimes it shows up with lspcmcia/pccardctl, sometimes it doesn't.

many times, the screen turns white until I unplug the card.

lsmod shows that orinoco, orinoco_cs, hermes, hostap_cs, hostap all are loaded.

in /sys/bus/pcmcia/drivers, there are hostap, ide_cs and orinoco subfolders.

there are only three files in /etc/pcmcia/ shouldn't there be a lot of .opts files there?

Here's a part of my dmesg after pluggind the card

CODE

pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 137, io 0xc4820000-0xc482003f
prism2: wifi0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 320 ms
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdb3a0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdb3a0, type=0, cmd=0x0121, param0=0xfc00, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010)
wifi0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=-110, rid=fc00, len=2)
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:80:5a:31:7b:9b
orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wifi0: link becomes ready
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5 usec
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c3e5b520, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c3e5b520, type=0, cmd=0x0002, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
wifi0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=1, cmd=0x0011, param0=0xf100)
wifi0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51)
wifi0: card already removed or not configured during shutdown
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=0000 INTEN=0000)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)

Again, sometimes it works fine for 15-20 minutes and suddenly the light turns off.

I've tried to trace the problem, but, in my ignorance, nothing makes sense to me.

Help!

TIA

[Meanie]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what's wrong with my card,  hope you can help me.

  I have a SL-C1000 with r198 installed and Meanie's SP4 applied.
  I define all the network settings before plugging in the card as wlan0.

  when I plug it in,  it connects fine for some 30 seconds and then disconnects.  from that point,  nothing makes sense to me.
 
  sometimes it shows up with lspcmcia/pccardctl,  sometimes it doesn't. 

  many times,  the screen turns white until I unplug the card. 

  lsmod shows that orinoco, orinoco_cs, hermes, hostap_cs, hostap all are loaded.

  in /sys/bus/pcmcia/drivers,  there are hostap, ide_cs and orinoco subfolders.

  there are only three files in /etc/pcmcia/    shouldn't there be a lot of .opts files there?

  Here's a part of my dmesg after pluggind the card

CODE

pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 137, io 0xc4820000-0xc482003f
prism2: wifi0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 320 ms
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdb3a0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdb3a0, type=0, cmd=0x0121, param0=0xfc00, EVSTAT=8000 INTEN=0010)
wifi0: hfa384x_set_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS_WRITE failed (res=-110, rid=fc00, len=2)
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:80:5a:31:7b:9b
orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wifi0: link becomes ready
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x00000000, expected 0xf08a36a2)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd_issue: cmd reg was busy for 5 usec
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: entry still in list? (entry=c3e5b520, type=0, res=0)
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c3e5b520, type=0, cmd=0x0002, param0=0x0000, EVSTAT=8888 INTEN=8888)
hostap_cs: Shutdown failed
wifi0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=1, cmd=0x0011, param0=0xf100)
wifi0: removed pending cmd_queue entry (type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51)
wifi0: card already removed or not configured during shutdown
wifi0: hfa384x_cmd: command was not completed (res=0, entry=c1cdbae0, type=0, cmd=0x0021, param0=0xfd51, EVSTAT=0000 INTEN=0000)
wifi0: hfa384x_get_rid: CMDCODE_ACCESS failed (res=-110, rid=fd51, len=6)

  Again,  sometimes it works fine for 15-20 minutes and suddenly the light turns off.

  I've tried to trace the problem,  but, in my ignorance,  nothing makes sense to me.

  Help!

TIA

uninstall either the orinoco or hostap driver.

your Z is loading both hostap and orinoco and both are fighting to get control. my guess is that hostap was in control until eventually orinoco got control and your Z freaked out, or maybe it is the other way around...