Re: wireless cards and 2.6.5 kernel

[Tim Folger <tim@timfolger.net>]

Hi Laurie,

Here are the results of ifconfig and iwconfig for my orinoco card (eth1) in 
the 2.6.5 kernel.  I'm kind of new to debian, so I may be missing something 
obvious.  The iwconfig command returns ""no wireless extensions"" (see 
below). 

ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:00:3D:11:D8
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1800

iwconfig eth1
eth1      no wireless extensions.


When I boot using the bf24 kernel my wireless card works perfectly and I get 
these results for the same two commands:

ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:60:F9:E1
          inet addr:10.0.1.3  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1895 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:885743 (864.9 KiB)  TX bytes:314130 (306.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x140

iwconfig eth1
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"1ecb13"  Nickname:"Folger"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412GHz  Access Point: 00:02:2D:1E:CB:13
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:2347 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:18/92  Signal level:-68 dBm  Noise level:-86 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Tim




On Monday 17 May 2004 10:28 pm, you wrote:
> Tim Folger wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running sarge on a fujitsu laptop, and use an orinoco gold card to
> > connect to the Internet and my home network. I recently installed
> >kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686, but when I boot using that kernel my wireless
> > card doesn't start, even though I've run modconf and installed (I think)
> > the required drivers. When I boot using the bf24 kernel (I'm using grub,
> > and have a choice) the card works fine.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> >Tim
>
> Hi Tim
>
> I have an IBM r31 with a wireless mini-pci card running the orinico
> driver. Sarge & kernel 2.6.3 runs fine. But I have both eth0 [ a wired
> lan] and eth1 [the orinico card. If the wired card is plugged in I
> cannot communicate unless I do a "if ifconfig eth1 down".
>
> Does ifconfig recognize your card? is an address assigned?

-- 
Tim