Re: hostap WEP SMC2632

Hi Peter, 

I have a similar setup, tho my card is a Belkin (which is 
supposed to be a rebadged SMC) and had a similar problem.  My 
dmesg: 

wi0: <PRISM2STA WaveLAN> port 0xff00-0xff3f,0xf880-0xf8ff mem 
0xffbef000-0xffbeffff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:30:bd:60:22:c5
wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 0.08.03

which looks identical to yours.  

How did you attempt to configure hostap mode?  I was NOT 
successful with hostap AT ALL until I did "ifconfig wi0 mediaopt 
hostap" (contrasted w/"wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1" and -c 1) and then 
insured the network names matched - although I could run "ad-
hoc" with "wicontrol -i wi0 -p 3".  I didn't really try WEP 
until i got hostap up, however, once i used mediaopt hostap WEP 
seems to work as well.  I think the man's are lagging behind the 
code.  

i am running 4.6 of a few weeks ago.

hope this is helpful, ymmv.

-steve 

On 17 Jul 2002 at 22:15, Peter J. Blok wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have seen a lot of messages about wireless cards working and not working 
> with hostap.
> 
> I have a SMC2602 which is a SMC2632 in a PCI card. Works fine. When I setup 
> hostap without WEP and use netgraph bridging it works, but is not very 
> stable. I'm getting timeout messages and then the connection stops.
> 
> When I define WEP, my laptop (running W2K) is not able to setup a connection. 
> The firmware of the laptop SMC2632 card is the same.
> 
> However WEP in adhoc mode works fine. This applies for both 40 and 128 bit.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p2 Below the dmesg output.
> 
> Jul 17 10:33:21 fwgw /kernel: wi0: <PRISM2STA WaveLAN> port 
> 0xd000-0xd03f,0xd400-0xd47f mem 0xe7000000-0xe7000fff irq 12 at device 9.0 on 
> pci0
> Jul 17 10:33:21 fwgw /kernel: wi0: 802.11 address: 00:04:e2:07:db:dd
> Jul 17 10:33:21 fwgw /kernel: wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 
> rev.A
> Jul 17 10:33:22 fwgw /kernel: wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 
> 0.08.03
> 
> I was told the same firmware for DLink and netgear can be used for the SMC 
> cards too. Does somebody have hostap working with WEP and a card with the 
> same firmware?
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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