On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:45 pm, Matt Schalit wrote: > Hi Scott, sorry to hear about the wireless problems. > I have the same network hardware as you. Tell us if > you diverged at all from the Bering User's Guide Orinoco > section?
I flashed both cards to the latest firmware from www.orinocowireless.com, which isn't mentioned in the Guide. Rather than comment out the first four lines of wireless.opts, I entered my values in that block: INFO="test" MODE="Ad-Hoc" RATE="auto" ESSID="test" > Also, you haven't pasted in the wireless config > files nor the output of iwconfig. I knew I'd forget something! All of the equipment is at home, while I'm at work. I'll send the output from each later tonight. I can tell you that 'iwconfig' on the laptop shows: lo: no wireless extensions eth0: no wireless extensions I have to specifically call eth1 on the command line for iwconfig in order to see the output. > But if we trust you have those right, then the > flakey response sounds like hardware at first > glance. Have you 100% proven to yourself that > each piece of hardware works? I _believe_ they do, although it's hard to be sure. Just before diving into all of this, I took the card that is currently in the laptop to a local coffee shop that offers a free wireless connection. Both Debian and Windows 98 were able to obtain a DHCP address and use the network. I have not tested the card in the ISA-PCMCIA adapter in the same way, but I certainly can do so soon. > What link speeds do you get when the two systems > are next to each other? I didn't check while in Debian. I did boot into Windows 98 to use the Orinoco "Link Monitor" utility. It showed a "Good" 11Mbps connection while in the same room as the Bering box, and dropped to "Marginal" when I took the laptop downstairs. After several minutes at "Marginal", the link suddenly jumped back up to "Excellent", but the MAC address listed for the remote station changed to a series of all "4"s, and the bar charts all went blank. I can't recall now whether the Bering box reported errors after this or not. I have not tried switching the cards between computers, but I will do that tonight. Thanks for the help! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Take your first step towards giving your online business a competitive advantage. Test-drive a Thawte SSL certificate - our easy online guide will show you how. Click here to get started: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0027en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html