Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Yes, Make sure your wireless card is plugged in. command line su cardctl ident That will display your cards manfid. Just change the entry in the hermes conf file to the proper manfid. The description of the card does not matter, call it whatever you like. ie: card Netgear MA something or other manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 bind orinoco_cs Regards, Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:10:19 -0700 Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was unable to get my card to work with your instructions. The main problem is that the file hermes.conf doesn't list my card. hermes.conf shows a Netgear MA410TX, my card is a Netgear MA401. Can that be fixed? On Tuesday 29 October 2002 07:37 am, Simon Ree wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption isn't just for secrets.. iD8DBQE9w15JUdYCmRtxtWQRAuwBAJ9PF1cpBYQQbsk/BtAmHQlRgTDjZ wCaAz2l+QmrRaK8ED3Mg7GxXX5W+o0= =RC8b -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Did you follow Simon's indications? After the hermes.conf file is copied in /etc/pcmcia, try to launch Mandrake Control Center, choose Network and Internet then connexion. Use the assistant to configure the eth0 and choose orinoco (Prism II). I think that will configure the NETGEAR wireless. Patrick Atlas Le Dimanche 3 Novembre 2002 02:01, engage a écrit : I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me. On Friday 01 November 2002 07:20 am, Patrick Atlas wrote: Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me. On Friday 01 November 2002 07:20 am, Patrick Atlas wrote: Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Hi, Your ENC_KEY has to be hex to work (could be wrong). If you can not get the info to stay in the ifcfg-ethx scripts you can pass the ESSID and ENC key via iwconfig. command line su iwconfig ethx essid youressid iwconfig ethx enc yourhexkey If that works for you create a shell script with those commands to save from typing them over and over again. However, your ifcfg-ethx should not change on a pcmcia or network restart, at least it does not on my system (Mandrake 9). Regards Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:20:30 +0100 Patrick Atlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] hermes.conf Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] trouble with wireless card
Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
