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Cisco 350 with LEAP - Associated but no network?



This has had me going for a few weeks now!

I'm running Debian unstable on a Dell Latitude C600 with an inbuilt
3COM NIC which comes up as eth0.  No problems there in setting up the
network. 

I plug in a Cisco 350 wireless PCMCI card. I've got the Cisco
utilities to set up LEAP authentication after which I get "Associated"
so the card is working just fine I think, looking at
/proc/drivers/aironet/eth1/Status

I do iwconfig and I see both eth1 and wifi0:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

lo        no wireless extensions.
 
eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"XXXX"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:0C:CE:85:7C:E7
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:11/10  Signal level:-55 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:910  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:2905   Missed beacon:0
 
wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"nexus"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:0C:CE:85:7C:E7
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:11/10  Signal level:-55 dBm  Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:910  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:2905   Missed beacon:0
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

First off I don't understand why I have both eth1 and wifi0 - seem the
same?

Anyhow I put the following into /etc/network/interface:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
iface wifi0 inet static
        address 152.83.74.14
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 152.83.74.255
        gateway 152.83.74.177
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then "ifup wifi0" and I see in ifconfig:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-0B-FD-57-78-99-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:125.83.74.14  Bcast:125.83.74.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2312  Metric:1
          RX packets:96 errors:864 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:864
          TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:8995 (8.7 KiB)  TX bytes:954 (954.0 b)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looks okay but I can't seem to get to the network. Ping to IP
addresses just sits there!

If instead I ifup eth1 then the machine hangs within a few minutes :-(

Any ideas?

Thanks
-- 
Graham.Williams@csiro.au                     Tel: (+61 2) 6216 7042
Principal Research Scientist                 Fax: (+61 2) 6216 7111
CSIRO Data Mining                            GPO Box 664  Canberra
http://datamining.csiro.au/Graham.Williams   ACT  2601   Australia



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