Intersil Prism 2.5 openSUSE 11 WPA

Hi forum,

I have a big problem with my wireless lan card on my thinkpad a31.
I read the following howto and manuels but I cannot connect with my wlan card to the access point.

Netgate: Intersil Prism 2.5 Firmware Info Page

Jun Sun’s mini-HOWTO on flashing Intersil Prism chipsets

Howto:

Linux-Firmware-Flashen-Prism2.5-Intersil-WPA-HOWTO

My situation:


dmesg |grep wifi
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4

wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf8000000, irq=11
02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
hostap_diag wifi0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wifi0'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.7.4 (station firmware)

I got this error code through dmesg:


dmesg |grep wifi
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf8000000, irq=11
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:20:e0:8d:b5:a9
wifi0: TXEXC - status=0x0004 ([Discon]) tx_control=000c
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=6 (Association failed)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44
wifi0: LinkStatus=2 (Disconnected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=44:44:44:44:44:44

My solution about the dmesg report the wpa didn’t work properly.

Have anybody an idea?

Regards Thorsten

I have the exact same problem, did you find a solution for this?