I have 4 wifi cards, three report missing primary firmware after a few minutes use the other a senao intersil prism card has the fantastic ability to periodically tell me that my access point is out of range even though it is within 2 meters of mt C3100 at the time.
The other 3 cards are a Dlink DWL-660W, Ambicom WL1100C, elink XI815
All are prism cards, I have tried firmware upgrades and downgrades only to find that as soon as I want to do anything useful dmesg reports "no primary F/W"
Typically I can do an ipkg update sucessfully but as soon as I try to install or browse more than a couple of pages my wifi dies.
One or even two cards going faulty and producing the same error is plausible - just about, but 3 cards going faulty, two of them purchased within the last 2 months going faulty makes me suspect my hostap drivers. Why does the hostap driver try and reload firmware to the card after a few minutes/megs?
is there any way to stop it doing this?
Am I the only one experiencing this?
DMESG from just after the card (ambicom) is inserted
hostap_cs: 0.4.7 - 2005-11-20 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
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 135, io 0xf6000000-0xf600003f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x801b v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
wifi0: TXEXC - status=0x0004 ([Discon]) tx_control=000c
retry_count=0 tx_rate=0 fc=0x4108 (Data::0 ToDS)
A1=00:00:00:00:00:00 A2=00:10:7a:59:e2:f2 A3=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff A4=00:00:00:00:00:00
wifi0: TXEXC - status=0x0004 ([Discon]) tx_control=000c
retry_count=0 tx_rate=0 fc=0x4108 (Data::0 ToDS)
A1=00:00:00:00:00:00 A2=00:10:7a:59:e2:f2 A3=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff A4=00:00:00:00:00:00
wifi0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:90:4b:c7:15:2f
root-
example DMESG prior to this segment I had been surfing with firefox for a few minutes, I dont understand why hostap suddenly decides I need to download firmware
wifi0: LinkStatus=5 (Access point in range)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:90:4b:c7:15:2f
wifi0: LinkStatus=4 (Access point out of range)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:90:4b:c7:15:2f
wifi0: Interrupt, but SWSUPPORT0 does not match: 01FF != 8A32 - card removed?
wifi0: scheduled card reset
hostap_cs: wifi0: resetting card
prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR ff
hostap_cs: assuming no Primary image in flash - card initialization not completed
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f
prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR ff
prism2_pccard_genesis_sreset: original COR ff
Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 00 00 00
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
prism2_pccard_cor_sreset: original COR ff
prism2_pccard_genesis_sreset: original COR ff
Readback test failed, HCR 0x0f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 00 00 00
prism2_pccard_genesis_sreset: original COR ff
wifi0: cannot get RID fd51 (len=6) - no PRI f/w
C3100 - PdaXii Akita - SaLLY 3.5.2
