Problem with WiFi card?

Marcin Juszkiewicz April 12th, 2006

Few days ago new HostAP drivers (version 0.4.7) were added into 3.5.4 upgrades feed. They depend on hostap-conf package which contain /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf file (which previously was part of hostap-modules-cs).

Some users reported that their cards stopped working after upgrade. If you are in such situation report this as a comment to this bug in OpenEmbedded bugtracker.

UPDATE: Also report if you are using 3.5.4.1-alpha2 and you got eth0 instead of wlan0 - we prefer hostap over orinoco driver so proper kernel patch will be generated.

Comment should contain cardctl ident output (or pccardctl ident for 3.5.4.1-alpha2 users). Part of dmesg output (card insert part) will be usefull too - some cards can be used with orinoco drivers.

2 Responses to “Problem with WiFi card?”

  1. # darkloranon 13 Apr 2006 at 19:59

    i’ve had a problem with new alpha2 on my sl-c3000 in contrary to alpha1 which was ok with my ASUS SpaceLink WL-110 CF.

    the main problem was that i’ve configured “wlan0″ in gpe-conf network as before while my card is now seen as eth0 so i needed to put my static configuration in eth0 instead of wlan0 and everything’s ok now.

  2. # on 14 Apr 2006 at 06:57

    darkloran: please add comment to bugreport.