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Subject: [ts-7000] wlan0 not coming up/iwconfig not working
From: Tom McCarty <>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:44:01 -0800
Hi all, I just bought a TS-7260 a couple of days ago, and I can't get
the wireless interface to work. The USB drivers seem to be working, but
the iwconfig command doesn't seem to do anything, and I can't find
anything in the archives with this particular problem.

A full log of my interaction from bootup is included below, but I think
the salient part is this, where iwconfig doesn't seem to do anything,
and looks like it's reading from a corrupted data structure.

$ iwconfig wlan0 essid pleasework
$ iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
$ ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 \Â âxÂ*ÃÃ ESSID:off/any Nickname:""
NWID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point: FF:7F:B4:5C:AD:2A Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=off
Sensitivity=2147482204/3
Retry:off RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:<too big>
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

I've tried "$iwconfig wlan0 nick test", too, but no iwconfig line seems
to change the output of just "$iwconfig" except to specify the
interface, in which case the output is slightly different:
$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 ââ ESSID:off/any Nickname:""
NWID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=off
Sensitivity:0/3
Retry:off RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:<too big>
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

>From my as-shipped system, here's what I have done to it:

uploaded zd.o to /root from ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/wireless/zd1211
uploaded iwconfig,iwlist, iwspy to /usr/bin from
ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/wireless/wireless_tools
uploaded libiw.so.28 to /lib from
ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/wireless/wireless_tools

I'm following the instructions in the Linux Arm guide v2.2, however, the
zd.o at
ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-linux-cd/binaries/ts-modules/zd.o
is for ts10, and wouldn't work with my ts11 system, so I got a more
recent version from another location on the web site. According to
iwconfig --version, it should work, but obviously isn't. Anyone have
suggestions?

TIA,

Tom
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Technologic Systems TS-LINUX/arm 7.0
ts7200 login: root
login[81]: root login on `ttyAM0'



BusyBox v1.00-rc2 (2004.08.05-21:44+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

$ insmod usbcore
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
$ insmod pcipool
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/kernel/arch/arm/common/pcipool.o
$ insmod usb-ohca
insmod: usb-ohca.o: no module by that name found
$ insmod usb-ohci
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-ohci.o
$ insmod usb-ohci-ep93xx
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/kernel/drivers/usb/host/usb-ohci-ep93xx.o
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0020000, IRQ 56
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
$ hub.c: new USB device not_pci-3, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xace/0x1211) is not claimed by any
active driver
.
insmod scsi_mod
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
$ insmod sd_mod
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o
$ insmod zd.o
Using zd.o
zd1211 - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ - r83
Based on www.zydas.com.tw driver version 2.5.0.0
usb.c: registered new driver zd1211
Release Ver = 4802
EEPORM Ver = 4330
PA type: 0
AiroHa AL2230RF
AllowedChannel = 000107ff
Region:16
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
$ iwconfig wlan0 essid pleasework
$ ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2
$ iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 \Â âxÂ*ÃÃ ESSID:off/any Nickname:""
NWID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point: FF:7F:B4:5C:AD:2A Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=off
Sensitivity=2147482204/3
Retry:off RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:<too big>
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
$ iwconfig --version
iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 28
Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v20.

Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v16.

wlan0 Recommend Wireless Extension v13 or later,
Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v18.

$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 ââ ESSID:off/any Nickname:""
NWID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=off
Sensitivity:0/3
Retry:off RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:<too big>
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

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