Re: bringing up eth0 for wireless card
Mark Copper wrote:
>Hmmm... I'm tempted to try HostAP with my D-Link DWL-650 vP1 on the
>basis of a note in this list from last Dec
>(Message-id: <20041209151630.GA20330@tashi.lonestar.org>).
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>The main obstruction I see ahead of time is that my Inspiron 3200 only
>has PCI support 2.1. Now Andrew Barr
>(http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/linux/dwl520e1.html) documents
>using the D-Link DWL-650 vP1 and says that PCI 2.2 is required, that
>without it the card won't even show up on lspci. And it's true, mine
>doesn't. But this card *does* show up under "cardctl ident".
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>Should I move on to another card or laptop? Or do I have a chance with
>HostAP with this hardware?
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>Oh, I do have wireless tools installed--but I can't use that unless I
>get an interface to the card to configure first, right?
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>Thanks.
>
>Mark
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>On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:08:58PM -0400, Mark Copper wrote:
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>Oh, I do have wireless tools installed--but I can't use that unless I
>get an interface to the card to configure first, right?
Before i bring my wirelles nic up i still can see this with wireless-tools:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
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
So if you got that, then the nic should be detected, properly... I don't know what "cardctl ident" means...
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/Lars
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