Re: orinoco wireless with WEP under kernel 2.6.14-2-686
Hi Richard,
I agree, the 0.15rc2 should work. I upgraded to this version and,
at first, it did not work with WEP. I felt lucky that it did work
after a reboot. Now, the roaming code is in this driver and it
provides WPA, so I have to explore wpa_supplicant stuff all over
again. It's all time in the day and I've already spent a few days
on this stuff. I can only think that somehow I am learning
something useful, but truth is that I would rather be using my computer
than learning about all these tools. Anyhow, freedom from winXP
feels good, even if it does come with more responsibility.
I can't figure out your issue. I am wondering if there is some
high level conflict in your system configuration. Have you
checked the entire dmesg for any system startup issues? I see all
the network startup logs when my system boots, it's helpful to locate
any failures and google the text strings for helpful stuff on how to
avoid or fix it. There are a few packages for wireless networking
and they are not all compatible. I found the Debian documentation
useful, but it's out of date, it doesn't refer to wpasupplicant at all.
Take care, Darren
On 1/3/06, Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> wrote:
[Darren, it looks as though your reply came to me off-list, so I am not
pruning it below.]
On Monday, 2 January 2006 at 16:15:01 -0800, Darren Weber wrote:
> On 1/2/06, Richard Lyons <
richard@the-place.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, 2 January 2006 at 11:28:54 -0800, Darren Weber wrote:
> > > A new router has options for WEP and WPA protocols. Is there any
> > > reason why your router would not allocate an IP under DHCP using
> > > one or another of
> >
> > It does allocate IPs to a mac and also to a windoze laptop, and the
> > dhcp is working fine for the three or five linux boxes on wired
> > connections too. The problem only occurs with the orinoco card on
> > my laptop. That is why I suspected initially that my set-up was
> > wrong, and afterwards that 1 or more modules may be absent.
> >
> > [...]
> > > You might try building the kernel with different versions of the
> > > orinoco driver.
> >
> > That sounds like more work than I am prepared to invest in this.
>
> What version is your orinoco driver? check
>
> dmesg | grep orinoco
0.15rc2
>
> I've found it easy to install a new version of the driver. Just
> download from sourceforge, make, make install.
>
I see there is a 0.15rc4, though, reading the notes, it doesn't look as
though it will fix my issue. I may try it today if I have time, but I
am not expecting much.
>
> > > I know the version in the 2.6.8 kernel is working for me with WEP.
> > > I can tell you that I cannot use WPA because the wpa_supplicant
> > > package requires roaming access on the driver, which is not
> > > working for me in the orinoco_cs driver built with Debian kernel
> > > source for 2.6.8 (it doesn't have the ioctl hooks for roaming
> > > etc., so wpa_supplicant fails to interact with the card
> > I don't think I fully understand that. What does roaming mean
> > exactly? I certainly get three local stations listed by 'iwlist
> > eth0 scan' (one of which is mine, of course).
> >
> > Thanks for your comments, but I have pretty much given up hope of
> > solving this issue.
> >
> > -- richard
> >
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