I've included some additional information below
salman h <salman_debian@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello and Seasons Greetings to all,
I'm having trouble setting up wireless networking on my laptop. The specs are as follows:
Toshiba Satellite S520
Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.6.x (built-in PCMCIA support)
Netgear MA401 802.11b PCMCIA card
Unsecure wireless network running on Linksys router
I've installed cardmgr and when I plug-in the Netgear card its link LED lights up. I don't see any messages in the logs to suggest if the correct driver was loader or not loaded. "ifconfig" reports that eth0 (built-in 10/100) is still the only active connection.
My questions:
1. Which driver should I install and configure (eg: orinoco, hostap, etc)?
2. Which
scripts should be edited so that the driver is loaded automatically when the card is detected?
3. Which scripts should be edited so that the alias "wlan0" is used to represent the wireless connection?
In fact, I'm very interested to understand how Linux supports PCMCIA interfaces, hot plugging, wireless networks, and the utilities that tie them together. I would really appreciate it if somebody could point me to the correct resources.
Thank you,
Salman
Output of dmesg:
...
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0b.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:0b.0 [1179:0001]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000011
ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout
[0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.8-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:08.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 4
PCI: setting IRQ 4 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x20001000, irq 4, MAC addr 00:00:39:F0:69:89
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:06.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
...
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
...
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
NET: Registered protocol family 17
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x370-0x377 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff:
clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
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Output of 'cat /etc/network/interfaces':
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid srh
mapping hotplug
script echo
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Output of lsmod:
Module
Size Used by
md5 4096 1
ipv6 242112 21
af_packet 21256 2
evdev 9344 0
rtc 12088 0
8250_pci 18688 0
8250 23420 1 8250_pci
serial_core
20864 1 8250
pci_hotplug 10884 0
intel_agp 22044 1
ehci_hcd 30600 0
usbcore 113660 2 ehci_hcd
e100 35456 0
mii 5376 1 e100
yenta_socket 22152 2
rsrc_nonstatic 12800 1 yenta_socket
ohci1394 33460 0
ieee1394 309176 1 ohci1394
agpgart 34376 1 intel_agp
ide_cd 40580 0
cdrom 38176 1 ide_cd
ext3 130568 5
jbd 53144 1 ext3
ide_disk 16768 7
ide_generic 1408 0 [permanent]
via82cxxx 11804 0 [permanent]
trm290 4228 0 [permanent]
triflex 3712 0 [permanent]
slc90e66 5504 0 [permanent]
sis5513 15624 0 [permanent]
siimage 11776 0 [permanent]
serverworks 8584 0
[permanent]
sc1200 7168 0 [permanent]
rz1000 2688 0 [permanent]
piix 10244 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_old 10880 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_new 8448 0 [permanent]
opti621 4228 0 [permanent]
ns87415 3912 0 [permanent]
hpt366 18688 0 [permanent]
hpt34x 5120 0 [permanent]
generic 4096 0 [permanent]
cy82c693 4480 0 [permanent]
cs5530 4736 0 [permanent]
cmd64x 11548 0 [permanent]
atiixp 5776 0 [permanent]
amd74xx 12700 0 [permanent]
alim15x3 10252 0 [permanent]
aec62xx 7168 0 [permanent]
ide_core 115820 27 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx,trm290,triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,sc1200,rz1000,piix,pdc202xx_old,pdc202xx_new,opti621,ns87415,hpt366,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cmd64x,atiixp,amd74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx
sd_mod 17040 0
scsi_mod 136648 1 sd_mod
unix 26288 316
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Output of 'ifup wlan0':
FATAL: Module p80211 not found.
Failed to load p80211.o.
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng-pre-up exited with return code 1
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
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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.
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What does the p80211.o module do?
Do I need to somehow create the physical 'wlan0' interface?
Thanks,
Salman