(Fwd to list) Re: Wireless lan setup
Try the wlan drivers for your kernel version.
apt-cache search wlan
will list the available drivers for you.
You might need to run testing.....
I have a compaq laptop with a Prism 2.5 mini-pci wireless lan
card and the wlan stuff works great.
Alternately you could try the Orinoco drivers (they don't seem
to work as well) included in the standard kernel package.
Pat
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 04:41:48PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:41:48 +0900
> From: Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>
> To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Wireless lan setup
> Mail-Followup-To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I sent this about 1 week ago, but got no responses. I've continued
> trying to get it to work but what's described below is still the
> situation.
>
> I know there are many people on this list who have wireless working,
> Could one of you please throw a hint of two my way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick.
>
>
> From: Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>
> Subject: wireless and dhcp
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:14:30 +0900
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently acquired a nice new notebook: Fujitsu FMV Biblio LOOX T93C
> [1]. If anyone else has one of these up and running I'd love to hear
> their experiences.
>
> 1. http://www.fmworld.net/product/frame/pcpm0301/biblo_loox/t/index.html
>
> Anyway to the specifics of this post: This machine comes with onboard
> wireless lan:
>
> hastings@cat ~ 42% lspci | grep Prism
> 00:12.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan
> chipset (rev 01)
>
> I managed to get some way to configuring the device with the hostap
> drivers (apt-get install hostap-source, make-kpkg modules_image, etc.).
>
> hastings@cat ~ 6% lsmod | grep hostap
> hostap_pci 38196 0
> hostap 51428 0 [hostap_pci]
> hostap_crypt 1360 0 [hostap]
>
> Here is what I put in my /etc/network/interfaces
> #------
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless_essid releventssid
> #------
>
> When I "/etc/init.d/networking restart", I get messages like the
> following:
>
>
> root@cat ~ 71% /etc/init.d/networking restart
> Reconfiguring network interfaces... **** /sbin/dhcpcd-bin: not running
> done.
> root@cat ~ 72% /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd.exe: line 49: .: filename argument
> required
> .: usage: . filename
> dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name ""
>
>
> Looking in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd.exe, I see that when this script is run
> it is perhaps missing an argument, $1 which is should be the name of a
> file to be sourced. Perhaps I need to hack some of the dhcpcd config
> files or the dhcpcd script?
>
> To show that the device is indeed recognised:
>
> hastings@cat ~ 5% iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> dummy0 no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 14
> of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"tsubaki"
> Mode:Master Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point:
> 00:E0:00:8D:CA:D9
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:-7 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr: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
>
>
> The warning above I guess is a little worrisome, however it seems that
> there may be a couple of problems.
>
> Any hints or suggestions, or even a link to a good FM would be highly
> appreciated. I've googled a great deal already, but I fear google has
> already helped me all it can.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick.
>
> PS. I'm running a home cooked 2.4.20 kernel (I can't get any of the
> 2.4 Debian kernels to boot), and am tracking unstable, with
> wireless-tools version 25-3.
>
> --
> Debian testing/unstable
> Linux cat 2.4.20-looxt #1 Tue Apr 1 13:23:20 JST 2003
> i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
>
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