Re: wireless: what to take /out/
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:26:32AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Hey all:
>
> I'm trying to get my wireless card working (Orinoco built-in mini card).
I have a similar card (from IBM, but it's still lucent).
> I've had some people suggest that I need to take PCMCIA support out of the
> kernel. (Ok, done.) But it still doesn't seem to be working....
>
> Under Network-device support I've moved everything to module instead of
> support compiled in. Do I need to remove the modules as well? Tonight I
> installed
>
> ifconfig shows no wlan (only eth0 and lo).
What about ifconfig -a Are you actually assigning an address to the
card? Look in /etc/network/interfaces
>
> I've got the following in my wireless.opts config file:
> # updated according to
> # http://danplanet.com/dell_3800.html
> *,*,*,*)
> ESSID="linksys"
> mode="Ad-Hoc"
> DHCP="y"
> NICKNAME="debian"
> ;;
>
> The ESSID is what the router broadcasts as (not sure of how to say that,
> but basically it's the default name for the router). (Once I get
> everything working I'm going to change it to a cooler name.)
I didn't have to change anything in wireless.opts
>
> lsmod shows:
> debian:/usr/src/linux# lsmod
> Module Size Used by Tainted: P
> NVdriver 1065088 11
> orinoco 29224 0 (unused)
> hermes 3332 0 [orinoco]
> ds 6472 3
> i82365 21240 3
> pcmcia_core 41184 0 [ds i82365]
> sg 23292 0 (unused)
> sr_mod 12688 0 (unused)
> loop 7832 0 (unused)
I think you need another module. I have orinoco_cs module loaded, too.
You can try manually loading it (modprobe orinoco_cs). See what dmesg
says after you do that.
>
>
>
> debian:/usr/src/linux# cardctl info
> PRODID_1="Lucent Technologies"
> PRODID_2="WaveLAN/IEEE"
> PRODID_3="Version 01.01"
> PRODID_4=""
> MANFID=0156,0002
> FUNCID=6
> PRODID_1=""
> PRODID_2=""
> PRODID_3=""
> PRODID_4=""
> MANFID=0000,0000
> FUNCID=255
> PRODID_1="O2Micro"
> PRODID_2="SmartCardBus Reader"
> PRODID_3="V1.0"
> PRODID_4=""
> MANFID=ffff,0001
> FUNCID=255
>
>
>
> /etc/pcmcia/config has the following listed:
> card "Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter"
> version "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE"
> bind "orinoco_cs"
>
> card "Lucent Technologies WaveLAN Adapter"
> version "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/PCMCIA"
> bind "wavelan_cs"
>
> # Added by request of Nuno
> card "Lucent Adapter"
> manfid 0x156, 0x0002
> bind "orinoco_cs"
>
> I can ping the router when I'm plugged in (it's a linksys 4-port
> wired/wireless router), but I can't ping the router when I'm using
> wireless (d'uh?).
>
> I'm not sure what else to check. :( I can only assume the router works as
> it's brand new and my lap top can see it from windows. Unfortunately I
> think I have the wrong windows driver (I'm running 2000, and I have the XP
> driver) and I can't actually connect to the internet using my laptop
> (although I can see the router I can't ping it). Unfortunately Acer's
> solution is to wipe the harddrive and install XP to see if it's a driver
> problem...my answer to that is, "hmm, no."
>
> Any more tips etc would be greatly appreciated.
>
> emma
>
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