Thanx Joshua, what you said in your mail was all I needed. Now I became more brave and tried with encryption. this time I am getting the follosing messages and all sort of wierd things happen. sometimes the led keeps blinking, after I played once with the wlancfg-* file that blinking stopped but still no connection. When I insert the card.. the messages I get on /var/log/everything/current are ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 20 00:15:26 [cardmgr] socket 0: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card (Prism 2.5) Feb 20 00:15:26 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs' Feb 20 00:15:26 [kernel] init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.16-pre8 Loaded Feb 20 00:15:26 [kernel] prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 10, io 0x0100-0x013f Feb 20 00:15:26 [cardmgr] executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0' Feb 20 00:15:26 [/etc/hotplug/net.agent] invoke /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start Feb 20 00:15:27 [kernel] ident: nic h/w: id=0x800c 1.0.0 Feb 20 00:15:27 [kernel] p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior to association, frame dropped. Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=26:66:30:05:00 Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute="data_string_too_short" Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=data_string_too_short Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=no_value Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute="data_string_too_short" Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=data_string_too_short Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=no_value Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute="data_string_too_short" Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=data_string_too_short Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=no_value Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + [33;01m* [0m WARNING: "net.wlan0" has already been started. Feb 20 00:15:27 [rc-scripts] WARNING: "net.wlan0" has already been started. Feb 20 00:15:27 [kernel] linkstatus=CONNECTED Feb 20 00:16:27 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response Feb 20 00:16:27 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring wlan0 up
--------------------------------------------------------------- if I do ifconfig.. I get --------------------------------------------------------------- lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9000 (8.7 Kb) TX bytes:9000 (8.7 Kb) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:30:5E:1F UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:584 (584.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x100 ------------------------------------------------------------- Also after a minut I got message on /var/log/everything/current ------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 20 00:23:16 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response Feb 20 00:23:16 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring wlan0 up ------------------------------------------------------------- Am i doing some common mistake over here? again... thanx for the response Spundun On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:58, Joshua J. Berry wrote: > You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script. Usually you can > just copy net.eth0 and add "need pcmcia" to the depend() section. > > You'll also need to setup your wlan0 interface in > /etc/conf.d/net...usually something like "iface_wlan0=dhcp" works just > fine. > > After that, I *believe* there is a way to get it to start automatically, > though I'm not sure (I always start it manually with > /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start on my laptop). I haven't actually had much > time to play around with my wireless configuration yet, so perhaps > someone else can jump in here and add the part I'm missing. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list