I've been having a devil of a time configuring wireless networking. I have a
Compaq Aramada 7370DMT laptop with an Orinoco Gold card, and a no-name
Pentium 120 desktop running Bering 1.0 stable with 2 SMC Ultra ISA network
cards and an Orinoco ISA-PCMCIA adapter with an Orinoco Gold card.
The laptop is running Debian sarge, with stock Debian 2.4.18 bf24 kernel plus
pcmcia-cs 3.1.33 (using the orinoco_cs driver). Inserting and removing the
card causes the proper modules to be loaded and removed (herme, orinoco,
orinoco_cs).
The Bering box has the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp package installed as pcmcia.lrp, and
it recognizes when I insert and remove the Orinoco card. The proper modules
are loaded and removed accordingly.
The Bering wireless interface is eth2, with an IP of 192.168.1.1/24.
The laptop wireless interface is eth1, with an IP of 192.168.1.2/24.
(I also have a 3Com 3c575 CardBus 10/100 network card in the laptop, which is
broght up by default as eth0 with a DHCP address assigned from the Bering
box.)
>From my laptop, I tried to ping the wireless interface on the Bering box, but
got:
eth1: Tx error, statius 4 (FID=XXXX)
(where XXXX is some number)
I ejected card and re-inserted. I disabled and ejected eth0 (my 3c575_cb NIC)
_after_ configuring eth1 (orinoco) and defining routes. I started to ping
from laptop to LEAF -- nothing.
While that runs, I ping from desktop (192.168.0.2) to laptop (192.168.1.2).
Bering console shows:
eth2: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=0201, TXCOMPLFID=XXXX,
EVSTAT=800b
(where XXXX is some 4 digit (hex?) number)
The ping from the laptop to the LEAF begins to respond!
I ping from laptop (192.168.1.2) to Bering wired NIC (192.168.0.1):
5 sent, 2 received.
same messages on Bering console as above.
The laptop now shows:
eth1: Tx error, status 1 (FID=01C5)
ping www.yahoo.com from laptop:
8 sent, 6 received
1 Tx error on laptop
some Bering console errors (as above, forgot to record quantity)
ping www.google.com from laptop:
10 sent, 8 received
1 error (as above) on Bering console
lynx http://nwn.bioware.com
fairly snappy, no messages on Bering console.
'g' http://www.cnn.com
fairly snappy. Errors start to spew on Bering console - 17 before I CTRL-C
out of lynx (before cnn.com finished loading, by the way)
ssh <a server at work>
connects fine
no errors on Bering console initially (df -h, w).
'ps ax' pauses -- 7 errors on LEAF console. ps output displays, Bering errors
stop.
Spotty errors on Bering console -- 'w' after 'ps ax' is slow, causes errors on
console. 'exit' is slow, causes errors on console.
ssh <a personal web server>
pretty much the same symptoms: spotty sluggishness which produces errors
on Bering console.
The errors on the Bering console all say:
eth2: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=0201, TXCOMPLFID=XXXX,
EVSTAT=800Z
(where XXXX is a 4 digit (hex?) number, and the Z is one of 'b', 'c', or 'd')
I'm pretty frustrated with all of this, because by all accounts every one else
has their wireless networks "just work"! =( Any pointers or suggestions
would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Scott
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