Wireless newbie with WaveLan on Dell
(I've been trying to avoid asking the list, but after two days of
searching and tinkering . . . . )
I just "inherited" a Dell Inspiron 1100, and of course promptly
installed Debian Sid. I also have a PCMCIA Lucent WAVELAN Gold wireless
card. When I insert it, I hear the two beeps indicative of a successful
card insertion, and one of the two green LEDs on the card flickers a
time or two, then both remain dark.
I've discovered the "cardctl" command, and it shows this:
westk@westkent02:~$ sudo cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 0.0V Vpp2 0.0V
interface type is "memory and I/O"
irq 3 [exclusive] [level]
function 0:
config base 0x03e0
option 0x41
io 0x0100-0x013f [16bit]
westk@westkent02:~$ sudo cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
I've found references to "iwconfig", but apt-file doesn't find it.
I don't have the slightest idea how to get this machine on the network
with this card.
This machine also has a built-in NIC, which I am using for now, but
wireless is preferred.
I'm running 2.6.6-2-686. I've tried running "modconf" to insert the
wavelan_cd module, but it fails, complaining about no
"/etc/modprobe.conf", but I found a changelog saying that file's no
longer used (yet modconf doesn't seem to realize that). So I manually
modprobe'd wavelan_cs and that worked. Here's the result of "lsmod":
Module Size Used by
orinoco_cs 9320 1
orinoco 43884 1 orinoco_cs
hermes 8640 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
wavelan_cs 33036 0
i830 72080 2
ds 18500 4 orinoco_cs,wavelan_cs
ipv6 254624 10
af_packet 22376 2
snd_intel8x0m 19492 0
snd_intel8x0 34952 0
snd_ac97_codec 65188 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 98148 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 25380 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11460 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 24704 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 54692 8
snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
jedec_probe 14592 0
gen_probe 3776 1 jedec_probe
mtdcore 7588 0
chipreg 3364 1 jedec_probe
hw_random 5460 0
pci_hotplug 36400 0
uhci_hcd 32112 0
intel_agp 18556 1
intel_mch_agp 10576 0
agpgart 34152 4 intel_agp,intel_mch_agp
tsdev 7328 0
mousedev 10068 1
rtc 12760 0
joydev 9888 0
pcspkr 3592 0
psmouse 20424 0
evdev 9536 0
ehci_hcd 29988 0
usbcore 108060 4 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
i810_audio 33844 1
ac97_codec 18956 1 i810_audio
soundcore 10336 3 snd,i810_audio
b44 22596 0
yenta_socket 21376 1
pcmcia_core 67620 4 orinoco_cs,wavelan_cs,ds,yenta_socket
capability 4100 0
commoncap 7200 1 capability
ide_cd 43268 0
cdrom 40384 1 ide_cd
ext2 72456 0
ext3 126184 5
jbd 62008 1 ext3
mbcache 9348 2 ext2,ext3
ide_disk 19872 7
ide_generic 1408 0
piix 13696 1
ide_core 149696 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,piix
sd_mod 21600 0
ata_piix 7972 0
libata 42080 1 ata_piix,[permanent]
scsi_mod 122252 2 sd_mod,libata
unix 28560 384
font 8320 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 0
cfbimgblt 3040 0
cfbfillrect 3776 0
I have a vague idea of needing to enable wlan0 in
/etc/network/interfaces, but that doesn't do me any good.
westk@westkent02:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# This entry denotes the loopback (127.0.0.1) interface.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# This entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
westk@westkent02:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking start
Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP
Client 2.0pl5Copyright 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
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0d:56:af:9f:37
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0d:56:af:9f:37
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.123.254
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.123.254
bound to 192.168.123.104 -- renewal in 3599400 seconds.
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
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
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Bind socket to interface: No such device
exiting.
Failed to bring up wlan0.
done.
(The "sit0" errors occur even if I remove the wlan0 lines from
"interfaces".)
This same PCMCIA card works fine on a Mac PowerBook G3 Bronze running
Debian. (It didn't for months, because I didn't know what I was doing,
then one day after a system upgrade and a new 2.6 kernel, it "just worked".)
I think I've provided all the relevant info; if not, just ask.
Any help appreciated. Thanks!
--
Kent
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