Linux Wireless Access Point

This is how I start my AP:

      /usr/sbin/brctl addbr br0
      /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth0
      /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 wlan0
      /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
      /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0
      /sbin/ifconfig br0 192.168.1.2 up
      /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 master
      /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid MyESSID
      /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key s:PASSWORD
      /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 channel 11

      /usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 maccmd 1
      /usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 addmac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
      /usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 addmac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
      /usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 addmac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

I still can't get my Pocket PC to work while the Linux wireless card is set at Master mode. When I do have it at Ad-hoc mode i'm able to ping the wireless card  from the Pocket PC and ping from the Pocket PC to the wireless card.

BTW when the AP is in Master mode my Pocket PC refuses to 'pick up' the signal.

Do you have he correct essid on both sides?

I manually entered in into my Pocket PC, but my Pocket PC won't even pickp a signal in master mode.

I had the same problem on a laptop: It did not display a signal at all until I corrected the essid.

Thanx for the quick response.  I entered the ESSID into the client (pda)... No luck yet.  But while looking through the syslog i found an error that said something about firmware 1.4.2  ... Now... I dont know how to check if the firmware on my wireless PCI card is version 1.4.2 .

If anyone knows how please specify.  I suspect that -that's causing the problem.  (hostap website says that hostap doesn't work right with v. 1.4.2)  

One more thing, please let me know which firmware version you're using.  Thank you :)

Here is the output of hostap_diag:

# ./hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.0.7
STAID: id=0x001f v1.3.6 (station firmware)

So it's 1.3.6. I never checked this, and I did not know that it's that old ... But it works.

You can find information about firmware flashing at this web page: http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
Keep in mind that this is dangerous stuff! It can ruin your card.