Openwrt firmware for mpi350, senao/prism and atheros cards

[acoul]

I've made a custom openwrt firmware based on the latest openwrt experimental cvs branch that works quite well with asus-wl500g. It offers support for miniPCI cards such as mpi350, senao/prism and atheros. You may find it here

From the Readme.txt file:
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- hostap to 0.4.0 + txpower adjust patches + enabled firmware nvram upload + stable firmware series upload at boot
- Wireless Extentions v18 for 2.4.30 linux kernel
- madwifi bsd branch cvs-Spring 2005
- firmware for senao cards under /etc/firmware

some last lines from the dmesg:
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PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:08.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.60.13.0
No Broadcom devices found.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_pci: 0.4.0 - 2005-04-25 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0000 -> 0002)
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.0
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9
wifi0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in Host AP mode WDS
wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0x40002000, irq=6
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
prism2_download: dl_cmd=4 start_addr=0x003f0000 num_areas=3
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 c1 a1 c1
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
wifi0: Original COR value: 0xa1
Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 0 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.4
Could not get RID for component STA
wifi0: Failed to read STA f/w version - only Primary f/w present
prism2_download: dl_cmd=1 start_addr=0x003f0c01 num_areas=3
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 30 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.4
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4

the output from iwconfig with a senao miniPCI wifi plugged in:
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root@OpenWrt:/etc/firmware# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Tx-Power:-16 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 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:0 Missed beacon:0

known bugs:
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The booting problem when an atheros card is plugged in still exists. I have no console so I can't do much about it other that google for simmilar cases hopping to find a work arround for this issue

[acoul]

known bugs:
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The booting problem when an atheros card is plugged in still exists. I have no console so I can't do much about it other that google for simmilar cases hopping to find a work arround for this issue

A new release is out that deals and resolves the issue with the atheros cards not booting. You may check here for more info.

[par]

Hi,


Sorry for my lame questions if they are such, but whatever..


What I would like to ask is what do I do wrong so i can't launch my wl500g with nor atheros, nor with senao or hermes mini-pci a/b/g card. I did insert latest experimental hostap 0.4.1 firmware, found on http://wifi.ozo.com/airo/asus/firmwa.../experimental/ , but when my asus boots up, after writing iwconfig, i can't see any wireless devices up. (Just lo, eth0, eth1 and br0).


Do i miss something?



Thanks.

[acoul]

Hi,


Sorry for my lame questions if they are such, but whatever..


What I would like to ask is what do I do wrong so i can't launch my wl500g with nor atheros, nor with senao or hermes mini-pci a/b/g card. I did insert latest experimental hostap 0.4.1 firmware, found on http://wifi.ozo.com/airo/asus/firmwa.../experimental/ , but when my asus boots up, after writing iwconfig, i can't see any wireless devices up. (Just lo, eth0, eth1 and br0).


Do i miss something?



Thanks.

Actually, you better go with the latest release that solves the atheros boot issue. modules are not auto loaded. You need to do this by hand. check the /lib/modules directory for loading the appropriate modules.

[xtraya]

those modules are mipsel compiled?
i will get an CM9 minpci card (i think that it best ATH a/b/g card on market)
and put into asus (on usb disc)

with that card, on PC linuxes i have an 7 km link on 5.8 ghz, with 0.5 ms ping and 3 MB/sec transfer.... it kicks ass!
ofcourse most important on long distance links are hardware timings,which CM9 has...

[acoul]

Actually, you better go with the latest release that solves the atheros boot issue. modules are not auto loaded. You need to do this by hand. check the /lib/modules directory for loading the appropriate modules.

A new openwrt branch release based on openwrt-whiterussian-rc3 that supports madwifi/atheros, hostap/prismII and cisco mpi350 wifi cards. Get it here