Re: orinoco wireless with WEP under kernel 2.6.14-2-686
Also sprach Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> (Thu, 29 Dec 2005
10:59:24 +0000):
> On Wednesday, 28 December 2005 at 20:03:12 +0100, Richard Mittendorfer
> wrote:
> > Also sprach Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> (Wed, 28 Dec 2005
> > 18:33:11 +0000):
> [...]
> > > Thinkpad 600E, Kernel 2.6.14-2-686, sid, orinoco wifi card.
> > > Wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is
> > > disabled, but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect.
> > > [...]
> > Also use wireless-mode managed (or auto)
> > wireless-channel xx
> > wireless-key restricted xx128bitxx (or open) (or just
> > the key)
> > ..in /e/n/i.
>
> I get no change when adding mode and channel and the 'restricted'
> keyword.
>
> I am not sure /etc/network/interfaces is even being sourced. After
> bootup, it does not have any details of the access point. Manually
> giving essid and key and then ifup results in first the correct AP
> details and then in associating it and showing the correct frequency.
> But connections fails, and Rx invalid crypt gets an entry. See below.
>
>
> To my innocent eye, this suggests that there are two problems:
> - /e/n/i not sourced at bootup
Do you have any other configuration tools installed that might interact
through hotplug/pcmcia? Is it a cardbus/pcmcia card at all? If, what
does "lspci" and the logs tell when it's plugged in?
> - kernel/modules problem with encryption.
There should be a description about what to choose when compiling the
kernel. AFAICR The config you posted didn't look bad. check this.
> Does that seem a correct analysis? Or is it merely one of those
> problems of sequence of loading modules that I really do not
> understand?
Doesn't seem far away. I've seen incompatiblities between between
card/ap-manufactors, but not yet with 11b.
> -----------------
> castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
> eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname "HERMES I"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
> Not-Associated Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
> Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key: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
>
> castagna:~# iwconfig eth0 essid Coixxxxxx
> castagna:~# iwconfig eth0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
[...]
> castagna:~# ifup eth0
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0p15
> Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software
> Consortium All Rights Reserved.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
> eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00.02.2d.a6.07.bb
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00.02.2d.a6.07.bb
> Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> Do DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database.
>
> Exiting.
>
> Failed to bring up eth0.
Have you tried manually without DHCP?
> castagna:~# iwconfig eth0
> eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Coixxxxxxxxx" Nickname "HERMES I"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point:
> 00:0F:B5:51:D7:FC Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
> Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security
> mode:open Power Management:off
> Link Quality=10/92 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise level=-88
> dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:305 Rx invalid
> [...]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Never seen this before. There's the problem for sure.
Does this card work with earlier kernels? Is udev in use?
sl ritch
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