Dear all :

  I am working an ARM-base embedded linux board and wish to add the AP function to it. This board are SoC which have MAC inside and use another PHY

ethernet controller outside. When i load my ko file of ipw2200-ap, it show error like below :

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egiga0    no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"HD-STAREAST-AP1" 
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity:-80 dBm 
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:28   Missed beacon:0

/share/public/ap # iwconfig eth0 ap 00:12:F0:54:A1:4A
***** FATAL ERROR **************************************************
ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
ipw2200: Start IPW Error Log Dump:
ipw2200: Status: 0x00000221, Config: 00000307
ipw2200: ERROR_FATALSTATUS_ERROR 74293185 0x000162ec  0x00014de8  0x00000a64  0x00015700  0x00000386
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74293191 0x00026580  0x000264c0  0x01540001  0x00000000  0x00000000
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74293197 0x00027400  0x000275d0  0x00540001  0x00000000  0x00000001
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74293202 0x00027000  0x000271f0  0x00540000  0x9c6a4200  0x00000002
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74293208 0x00408000  0x00408000  0x30408200  0x00000082  0x00000003
***** FATAL ERROR **************************************************
ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
ipw2200: Start IPW Error Log Dump:
ipw2200: Status: 0x00000221, Config: 00000307
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74798210 0x00027400  0x000275d0  0x00540002  0x00000000  0x00000001
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74798215 0x00027000  0x000271f0  0x00540002  0x9c6a4200  0x00000002
ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS 74798221 0x00400000  0x00400000  0x00400200  0x00000082  0x00000003
ipw2200: failed to send ASSOCIATE command
/share/public/ap # Sending channel to 11
Sending channel to 11
notification type = 20 (104 bytes)

/share/public/ap # iwconfig
egiga0    no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"HD-STAREAST-AP1" 
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:12:F0:54:A1:4A  
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity:-80 dBm 
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:28   Missed beacon:0

/share/public/ap # eth0: 00:0e:35:dd:a5:6f auth_cb - alg=0 trans#=2 status=0 - STA authenticated
O: 00 00 02 00 00 00
This STA is OFDM
Add station index = 1
eth0: 00:0e:35:dd:a5:6f assoc_cb - STA associated
O: 01 00 00 00 01 C0 01 08 8C 12 18 24 30 48 60 6C

 

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Does anyone know what's wrong with it ??

My ethernet is still working and the result of iwconfig shows that

my AP interface didn't have MAC address.

Shall i do anything related the ethernet ???

 

Thank you.

 

Shawn.