Re: 2.6.6 unsupported wireless? That can't be true!
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:26:53PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Where all that verbage say it's unsupported? All I see is it loading the
> correct driver, initializing the card, then trying to get a DHCP address
> and failing. Is there a DHCP server somewhere that it should be talking
> to?
Well the fact that it doesn't work when I try to pull it up with dhclient
was a pretty big clue that something is wrong. I can't find a single error
message though.
smeagol:~ 00:40:18 $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:8D:22:8B
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1329 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:685117 (669.0 KiB) TX bytes:119363 (116.5 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:56:0C:29
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:16 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x100
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:127645 (124.6 KiB) TX bytes:127645 (124.6 KiB)
smeagol:~ 00:40:19 $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Wavelan Network" Nickname:"smeagol"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
smeagol:~ 00:41:15 $ sudo ifup eth1
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc13
Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:02:2d:56:0c:29
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:02:2d:56:0c:29
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
smeagol:~ 00:42:23 $ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.168.1.1 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.168.1.1 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.168.1.1 64 chars, ret=-1
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
smeagol:~ 00:42:36 $ sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
<plug the ethernet back in>
smeagol:~ 00:43:16 $ sudo ifup eth0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc13
Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:00:e2:8d:22:8b
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:00:e2:8d:22:8b
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.100 -- renewal in 33370 seconds.
smeagol:~ 00:44:04 $ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# Network cards
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
> The "unsupported card" message from cardmgr is quite clearly for the
> "SmartCardBus Reader" in slot 2.
That's useful, thanks.
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