Re: [Cooker] Mdk9.0 and SMC WIRELESS - help please

2002-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson 

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 05:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If all that sounds like too much work, you could also try again with
 orinoco_cs as described in a recent posting. Just replace wvlan_cs
 with orinoco_cs in /etc/pcmcia/config and run drakconnect. I'm not
 sure whether orinoco_cs supports WEP, though.

It does, and well picked up on the wvlan_cs point - I hope mdk stops
pointing cards at this driver soon, it's outdated. orinoco does WEP
fine, but I have problems with receiving data at high speed using it
(internet usage, over an ADSL link, is fine, but trying to download
files from another machine on a local network tends to cause the link to
die. The orinoco author knows about tons of these problems and is trying
to fix, but he finds it a bit tricky, it seems. I may try prism2_cs once
mdk supports it a bit better...)
-- 
adamw

[Cooker] Mdk9.0 and SMC WIRELESS - help please

2002-09-11 Thread Alvin Austin 

Hello Mandrake friends,

A bug, I don't know, but a question for sure...

Is anyone successfully using Mandrake 8.x or 9.x with
an SMC wireless network card (SMC2632W) and/or SMC
access point (SMC2655W), especially with WEP keys
enabled?

Mandrake 9.0 RC2 (and several earlier versions also)
detect the SMC2632W PCMCIA card and set it up nicely.
I can get it to talk to the access point easily if
(and only if) I do not set any encryption key in the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth1 config file.

The moment I try to enter a key (and of course set the
corresponding key on the AP, it is unable to associate.
[The AP works fine against W2K laptops keyed similarly,
or on this laptop if booted with W2K]).

I have tried using a 10 character hex key for 64 bit WEP,
like:
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=1122-3344-55
and a 26 character hex key for 128 bit WEP, like:
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=cf1c-54bb-5154-c9f2-86d9-9330-21
and a pass phrase key (with the AP set at 128 bit WEP), like
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:somepassword

Nothing seems to work.  Again, if I put in an empty arg
like:
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=
and turn off encryption on the AP, then the connection
comes up immediately, and the card gets an IP address
by DHCP from the main linux server on the lan, and
works normally.

/-\
All suggestions would be VERY MUCH appreciated!
\-/
(And thanks to those who have put in all the hard
work into MDK 9.0 so far. It is another winner!)

More details, if you're still reading... :-)

These are observed when it is working with no WEP key specified.

The hardware:
-
Access Point:  SMC2655W
PCMCIA Card: SMC2632W

HardDrake reports:
--
Vendor: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter
Description:
Old device file: /dev/eth1
Module: wvlan_cs
type: network

dmesg reports:
--
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 04 e2 62 48 34
wvlan_cs: Unrecognised card, card return vendor = 0x0003, please report...
wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x8 (vendor 3) - Firmware capabilities : 0-0-0-0-0

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
-
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
IPADDR=
NETMASK=
IPXNETNUM_802_2=
IPXPRIMARY_802_2=no
IPXACTIVE_802_2=no
IPXNETNUM_802_3=
IPXPRIMARY_802_3=no
IPXACTIVE_802_3=no
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII=no
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII=no
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP=no
IPXACTIVE_SNAP=no
# WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:somepassword
# WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=cf1c-54bb-5154-c9f2-86d9-9330-21
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=
WIRELESS_ESSID=SMC92475
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_RATE=11M

iwconfig

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:SMC92475  Nickname:adell
 Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:04:E2:62:48:34
 Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
 RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
 Encryption key:off
 Power Management:off
 Link Quality:92/92  Signal level:-11 dBm  Noise level:-102 dBm
 Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
 Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ifconfig eth1
-
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:E2:62:48:34
inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.47.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:55838 (54.5 Kb)  TX bytes:62532 (61.0 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100


Thanks again for any and all help and suggestions!

Alvin  (aamc at crlogic.com)

Re: [Cooker] Mdk9.0 and SMC WIRELESS - help please

2002-09-11 Thread aaron 


Alvin Austin wrote...
AA Mandrake 9.0 RC2 (and several earlier versions also)
AA detect the SMC2632W PCMCIA card and set it up nicely.
AA I can get it to talk to the access point easily if
AA (and only if) I do not set any encryption key in the
AA /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth1 config file.
AA 
AA The moment I try to enter a key (and of course set the
AA corresponding key on the AP, it is unable to associate.

Alvin,

I'm not using WEP myself but I'm pretty sure the default wvlan_cs
driver doesn't support it. (Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong...) I think
you may have to use prism2_cs to get WEP working. Only problem is that
drakconnect doesn't understand prism2_cs, last I checked.

prism2_cs is in the Mandrake kernel, but you need some toys to get it
to actually run. You can build them with this SRPM, which is based on
9b4: 

http://users.erols.com/peromsik/prism2-utils-0.1.14-1mdk.src.rpm

Then look in the included README file for details (from the
linux-wlan-ng project) on how to set it up by hand. I'd like to make
it work with drakconnect but on the other hand it's about time I got
some sleep.

For testing prism2_cs you'll want to replace wvlan_cs with prism2_cs
in /etc/pcmcia/config just after Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless
Adapter. 

If all that sounds like too much work, you could also try again with
orinoco_cs as described in a recent posting. Just replace wvlan_cs
with orinoco_cs in /etc/pcmcia/config and run drakconnect. I'm not
sure whether orinoco_cs supports WEP, though.

Good luck...
-- 
Aaron Peromsik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [For thinner oatmeal, add more water.]