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!
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