Host_ap and wlan0 not fully working...

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid daevid com>]

I'm having issues with one last remaining issue with my 100mW NL2011CD PLUS
EXT2 card (basically the EnGenius/Senao/Intersil one). I can't get it to
"work" for getting online, however it does work fine with "kismet" and also
"wavemon". I've searched google and found a few other references to this,
but no solution was posted. Anyone have ideas? This is with RedHat 9
(shrike) from fresh install.


[root locutus X11]# ifup wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

[root locutus X11]# ifconfig wlan0

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:6F:01:B9:AF
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:3720 (3.6 Kb)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
 
[root locutus X11]# iwconfig

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:02:6F:01:B9:AF
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:3 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

dmesg outputs:

hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.0.3 - 2003-05-18 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline cc hut fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
prism2_config()
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
prism2_hw_init()
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 9194 iterations
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.4
wlan0: defaulting to host-based encryption as a workaround for firmware bug
in Host AP mode WEP
wlan0: defaulting to bogus WDS frame as a workaround for firmware bug in
Host AP mode WDS
wlan0: Host AP mode does not support 'Any' essid
wlan0: prism2_open
wlan0 unsupported ioctl(0x8947)