Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
More in the saga of wireless network connectivity. =) Someone mailed me off-list to report that they had enjoyed success with their Orinoco card using the 8.10 firmware revision. So I downgraded the firmware in both of my cards. Again, everything appears to work at first. Now, however, the LEAF/Bering box bombs out after as little as five minutes of no activity on the wireless segment. Doing 'iwconfig' on the LEAF/Bering console produces the same results as before: hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. eth2IEEE 802.11-DS Nickname:firewall Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:42.9497GHz Tx-Power=15 dBm RTS thr:off Encryption key:off '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' or ejecting and re-instering the card fixed the problem, until the next period of inactivity. I switched cards, putting the LEAF/Bering card into my laptop, and vice versa; but the problem remained -- a moderate period of inactivity caused the system to think that the card was no longer there. The laptop does not produce these error messages, so I'm fairly confident that the problem is isolated to the LEAF/Bering box. This could mean that I've got a screwy configuration somehow, or that I've got a hardware problem (most likely a flakey ISA-to-PCMCIA adapter?). I'm going to build a new LEAF/Bering floppy from scratch -- following the Wireless section of the User's Guide to a tee from the beginning -- and see if that fixes me up. I'd love to hear from Orinoco users which firmware versions you've had success and failure with. It sounds like Matt Schalit is enjoying 7.28, while Brock Nanson and the person who sent me a private message are enjoying 8.10. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Scott, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:34:24 EST Scott wrote: More in the saga of wireless network connectivity. =) Someone mailed me off-list to report that they had enjoyed success with their Orinoco card using the 8.10 firmware revision. I have also had success with firmware 8.10 (and 6.16) and Lucent/Orinoco/Agere Silver cards using both the 0.09b and 0.11b orinoco_cs drivers with a Vadem VG-469 ISA-to-PCMCIA adpater running in IEEE Ad-Hoc mode. Actually, let me qualify that: I have had success as long as I don't add a prism2 peer to the network. When I do I get a lot of Tx errors and resets on the orinoco end. So I downgraded the firmware in both of my cards. Again, everything appears to work at first. Now, however, the LEAF/Bering box bombs out after as little as five minutes of no activity on the wireless segment. Doing 'iwconfig' on the LEAF/Bering console produces the same results as before: hermes @ IO 0x100: Card removed while waiting for command completion. [..] Never seen those error messages before. Something is defintely wrong, but I'm not sure what. You might get better help on the orinoco-user list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=orinoco-users or in the samba wireless archives: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/ eth2IEEE 802.11-DS Nickname:firewall Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:42.9497GHz Tx-Power=15 dBm Huh? 42.9 GHz!! It should be in the 2.4 GHz range. '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' or ejecting and re-instering the card fixed the problem, until the next period of inactivity. I switched cards, putting the LEAF/Bering card into my laptop, and vice versa; but the problem remained -- a moderate period of inactivity caused the system to think that the card was no longer there. Which version of orinoco_cs does the Bering system use? Does the notebook use orinoco_cs drivers? (Note: you could also try the wavelan2_cs binary driver from Lucent.) The laptop does not produce these error messages, so I'm fairly confident that the problem is isolated to the LEAF/Bering box. This could mean that I've got a screwy configuration somehow, or that I've got a hardware problem (most likely a flakey ISA-to-PCMCIA adapter?). What make and model is the ISA-to-PCMCIA bridge? I'm going to build a new LEAF/Bering floppy from scratch -- following the Wireless section of the User's Guide to a tee from the beginning -- and see if that fixes me up. You may also want to try the 2.4.20 version of the kernel, pcmcia_orinoco.lrp, and modules.lrp since that will get you up to the 0.11b version of orinoco_cs. --Brad --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
On Friday 17 January 2003 10:16 am, you wrote: Never seen those error messages before. Something is defintely wrong, but I'm not sure what. You might get better help on the orinoco-user list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=orinoco-users or in the samba wireless archives: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/ That's my next stop. I switched cards, putting the LEAF/Bering card into my laptop, and vice versa; but the problem remained -- a moderate period of inactivity caused the system to think that the card was no longer there. Which version of orinoco_cs does the Bering system use? Does the notebook use orinoco_cs drivers? (Note: you could also try the wavelan2_cs binary driver from Lucent.) I'm not sure what module version LEAF/Bering uses in the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp package. The laptop is using orinoco_cs, from Debian's woody pcmcia-cs package. The laptop does not produce these error messages, so I'm fairly confident that the problem is isolated to the LEAF/Bering box. This could mean that I've got a screwy configuration somehow, or that I've got a hardware problem (most likely a flakey ISA-to-PCMCIA adapter?). What make and model is the ISA-to-PCMCIA bridge? Vadem VG-469 ISA-to-PCMCIA, just like the one you report success with. You may also want to try the 2.4.20 version of the kernel, pcmcia_orinoco.lrp, and modules.lrp since that will get you up to the 0.11b version of orinoco_cs. If that'll fix it, so be it. But Matt Schalit's recent explanation of the hoops to jump through in order to enjoy 2.4.20 gives me the willies! =) --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Scott, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:25:36 EST Scott Merrill wrote: On Friday 17 January 2003 10:16 am, you wrote: Never seen those error messages before. Something is defintely wrong, but I'm not sure what. You might get better help on the orinoco-user list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=orinoco-users or in the samba wireless archives: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/ That's my next stop. David Gibson, the orinoco_cs author, participates regularly on orinoco-users, so you're likely to get good help there. There is also a recent thread http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1517538forum_id=11432 that references the same error message you reported. I switched cards, putting the LEAF/Bering card into my laptop, and vice versa; but the problem remained -- a moderate period of inactivity caused the system to think that the card was no longer there. Which version of orinoco_cs does the Bering system use? Does the notebook use orinoco_cs drivers? (Note: you could also try the wavelan2_cs binary driver from Lucent.) I'm not sure what module version LEAF/Bering uses in the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp package. The laptop is using orinoco_cs, from Debian's woody pcmcia-cs package. Look in /var/log/kern.log after a pcmcia restart. When the drivers are insmodded they spit out a bunch of debugging info, including the driver version. (If you post to orinoco-users you'll want to include those log messages.) Most likely you have 0.09b on Bering and 0.11b on woody. That is a combo that worked for me for several months with firmware 8.10 in the debian (sarge) card and 6.16 on the Bering card. The laptop does not produce these error messages, so I'm fairly confident that the problem is isolated to the LEAF/Bering box. This could mean that I've got a screwy configuration somehow, or that I've got a hardware problem (most likely a flakey ISA-to-PCMCIA adapter?). What make and model is the ISA-to-PCMCIA bridge? Vadem VG-469 ISA-to-PCMCIA, just like the one you report success with. Did you have to add PCIC_OPTS=i365_base=0x3e2 to /etc/default/pcmcia like I did? Since your setup is so similar to mine, I will send you copies of my config files and startup messages offlist so you can use them for reference. You may also want to try the 2.4.20 version of the kernel, pcmcia_orinoco.lrp, and modules.lrp since that will get you up to the 0.11b version of orinoco_cs. If that'll fix it, so be it. But Matt Schalit's recent explanation of the hoops to jump through in order to enjoy 2.4.20 gives me the willies! =) IIRC, Matt built his from scratch, but that's not really necessary. Just grab the kernel (linux-2.4.20.upx), pcmcia_orinoco.lrp and modules.lrp from http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/contrib/2.4.20/ and use them instead of the versions in the 1.0-stable image. You will need to rename linux-2.4.20.upx to linux and pcmcia_orinoco.lrp to pcmcia.lrp. You _may_ also need the wireless.lrp and iptables.lrp packages from that directory, but I'm not positive. Then use modules from http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/modules/2.4.20/ Just a thought...it's certainly easier than compiling your own kernel and pcmcia modules to upgrade orinoco_cs. :) And you'll probably get better support on orinoco-users if you're using a newer driver version. --Brad --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Brad Fritz wrote: IIRC, Matt built his from scratch, but that's not really necessary. Just grab the kernel (linux-2.4.20.upx), pcmcia_orinoco.lrp and modules.lrp from http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/contrib/2.4.20/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/modules/2.4.20/ --Brad To be clear, I built mine entirely from .lrps available above, following the guides 98% to the letter. I didn't compile anything. I'll tear through a mini-HOWTO later today. The two big diffs were 1) cardmgr asked for wavlan2_cs rather than orinoco_cs and 2) adding rw to syslinux.cfg for 2.4.20. Caveat I don't have a laptop to test w/today :-/ Matt --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless and wavelan2_cs.conf
Matt, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:54:47 PST Matt Schalit wrote: Brad Fritz wrote: IIRC, Matt built his from scratch, but that's not really necessary. To be clear, I built mine entirely from .lrps available above, following the guides 98% to the letter. I didn't compile anything. That's what I meant, but I didn't express it very clearly. Thank you for clarifying. I'll tear through a mini-HOWTO later today. The two big diffs were 1) cardmgr asked for wavlan2_cs rather than orinoco_cs and 2) adding rw to syslinux.cfg for 2.4.20. #1 occurs because etc/pcmcia/wavelan2_cs.conf is included in the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp package. The fact that it's included (and not renamed to end in something other than .conf) almost seems like a packaging bug since that package includes hermes.o, orinoco.o and orinoco_cs.o but not wavelan2_cs.o . --Brad --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless and wavelan2_cs.conf
Brad Fritz wrote: #1 occurs because etc/pcmcia/wavelan2_cs.conf is included in the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp package. Ahh, yes, when I rename that file, and svi restart pcmcia, then it loads with orinoco_cs, rather than wavelan2_cs. Now I'll have to get the laptop to test. Matt --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Hey, read down your post included at the bottom, and tell me why it finds your card as an Intersil? It finds mine as a Lucent/Agere. When I boot my w/rc3 and the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp that I use, called pcmcia.lrp, version 3.1.33, I see the following in my syslog: cardmgr[6583]: watching 2 sockets cardmgr[14020]: starting, version is 3.1.33 cardmgr[14020]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d-0x0d: clean. cardmgr[14020]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/hermes.o' kernel: hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] cardmgr[14020]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/hermes.o cardmgr[14020]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco.o' kernel: orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others) cardmgr[14020]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco.o cardmgr[14020]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o' kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others) cardmgr[14020]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x3c0-0x3e7 0x3f0-0x3f7 0x4d0-0x4d7 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x03bf: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e8-0x03ef: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03f8-0x04cf: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. kernel: eth2: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:001c kernel: eth2: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.28 kernel: eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported kernel: eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported kernel: eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key kernel: eth2: MAC address 00:02:2D:74:55:93 kernel: eth2: Station name HERMES I kernel: eth2: ready kernel: eth2: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f cardmgr[14020]: executing: './network start eth2' Hub:# cd pcmcia Hub:# ls -l -rw-r--r--1 root root11248 Jun 16 2002 ds.o -rw-r--r--1 root root 6060 Jun 16 2002 hermes.o -rw-r--r--1 root root33728 Jun 16 2002 i82365.o -rw-r--r--1 root root42152 Jun 16 2002 orinoco.o -rw-r--r--1 root root 8100 Jun 16 2002 orinoco_cs.o -rw-r--r--1 root root58163 Jun 16 2002 pcmcia_core.o Comparing our two filesets, I have no idea what you are using in your attempt to get rc3 running. Please list the exact directory and filename of the .lrp you downloaded from leaf.sourceforge.net to handle your pcmcia, presumably a version of pcmcia_orinoco.lrp. Also do a lrpkg -l and tell me what version is claims your pcmcia.lrp is. Matt, I brought up RC3 Bering-orinoco again. Here what I got : The card is WaveLAN/IEEE. .. hermes_read_ltv(): rid (0xfd20) does not match type (0xc7ff) hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 508 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0x00ff) eth0: Station identity 003f:00ff:d4bf:00ff eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 54463.255 ^^ Regards, Matthew --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Matt, I found out what the problem was. It was caused by memory conflict. I modified the config.opts and did a few includes/excludes io ports and memory. It fixed the problem right away. I couldn't locate any hardware infomation from Lucent/Agere and I just did by trials and errors and wathed what hermes.c did with the offset. Apparently, it reads some unmapped memory location and thinks that it is an Intersil chipset. Thank you for your help. BTW, do you know if I can use the same interface to do both ad-hoc and managed mode concurrently ? I meant to use 1 channel for ad-hoc and and use a different channel to provide access point service. Thank you for your help again. Newton --- Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, read down your post included at the bottom, and tell me why it finds your card as an Intersil? It finds mine as a Lucent/Agere. When I boot my w/rc3 and the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp that I use, called pcmcia.lrp, version 3.1.33, I see the following in my syslog: cardmgr[6583]: watching 2 sockets cardmgr[14020]: starting, version is 3.1.33 cardmgr[14020]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d-0x0d: clean. cardmgr[14020]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/hermes.o' kernel: hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] cardmgr[14020]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/hermes.o cardmgr[14020]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco.o' kernel: orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others) cardmgr[14020]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco.o cardmgr[14020]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o' kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others) cardmgr[14020]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x290-0x297 0x3c0-0x3e7 0x3f0-0x3f7 0x4d0-0x4d7 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0298-0x03bf: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03e8-0x03ef: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x03f8-0x04cf: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. kernel: eth2: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:001c kernel: eth2: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.28 kernel: eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported kernel: eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported kernel: eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key kernel: eth2: MAC address 00:02:2D:74:55:93 kernel: eth2: Station name HERMES I kernel: eth2: ready kernel: eth2: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f cardmgr[14020]: executing: './network start eth2' Hub:# cd pcmcia Hub:# ls -l -rw-r--r--1 root root11248 Jun 16 2002 ds.o -rw-r--r--1 root root 6060 Jun 16 2002 hermes.o -rw-r--r--1 root root33728 Jun 16 2002 i82365.o -rw-r--r--1 root root42152 Jun 16 2002 orinoco.o -rw-r--r--1 root root 8100 Jun 16 2002 orinoco_cs.o -rw-r--r--1 root root58163 Jun 16 2002 pcmcia_core.o Comparing our two filesets, I have no idea what you are using in your attempt to get rc3 running. Please list the exact directory and filename of the .lrp you downloaded from leaf.sourceforge.net to handle your pcmcia, presumably a version of pcmcia_orinoco.lrp. Also do a lrpkg -l and tell me what version is claims your pcmcia.lrp is. Matt, I brought up RC3 Bering-orinoco again. Here what I got : The card is WaveLAN/IEEE. .. hermes_read_ltv(): rid (0xfd20) does not match type (0xc7ff) hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 508 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0x00ff) eth0: Station identity 003f:00ff:d4bf:00ff eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 54463.255 ^^ Regards, Matthew --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide:
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Scott Merrill wrote: This is a long message, attempting to document the steps I took to get my Orinoco wireless cards to work in my laptop and in my LEAF/Bering box. Hey, funny thing, I just got 1.0 stable running my Orinoco gold, and it cardmgr choked if I only had the orinoco*.o modules in /lib/modules/pcmcia/ It complained in syslog that it wanted wavlan2_cs.o!! So I added that to /lib/modules/pcmcia and svi restarted pcmcia and I got 2 beeps, iwconfig, everything. Cool. I'm using 2.4.20 btw. Tricky. [smerrill@smerrill secondary]$ head lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted orinoco_cs 4712 0 (unused) orinoco29568 0 [orinoco_cs] hermes 3296 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] appletalk 18988 0 (autoclean) ipx15636 0 (autoclean) 3c575_cb 19876 2 cb_enabler 2528 2 [3c575_cb] ds 6624 2 [orinoco_cs cb_enabler] i82365 22416 2 ipx, heh heh. modified the file to look like this: # Lucent Wavelan IEEE (+ Orinoco, RoamAbout and ELSA) # Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support *,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:02:2D:*) INFO=Wavelan IEEE example (Lucent default settings) ESSID=test MODE=Ad-Hoc #RATE=auto #KEY=s:secu1 # To set all four keys, use : Yes those are the recommened mods in the Bering users guide. For all I know, waving a dead chicken over both cards... Try waving live turkeys. It's a helluva lot more, well, everything... leaner too Things yet to figure out: * why does LEAF/Bering think that I ejected the card if it hasn't been used for a while? Dunno. Try the 2.4.20/latest. * why doesn't LEAF/Bering hand out DHCP addresses on the wireless segment? (I have a subnet declaration for 192.168.1.0/24 in /etc/dhcpd.conf, and I modified /etc/init.d/dhcpd to include both eth1 and eth2) Don't know dhcp with repect to wireless, sorry. Start a new thread, perhaps. * why does my wireless card fail to initialize unless my 3Com 3c575 card is inserted first? Is this something to do with /etc/network/interfaces? Don't know pc-card hardware issues much at all. good luck scott, matt --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
wing newton wrote: Matt, Thank you for your help. Hi again Newton, I just got my Bering-1.0 up and running great w/kernel 2.4.20 and my Orinoco Gold. I started from blank diskettes and built the system out of parts from /devel/jnilo/bering/latest/ following the Bering install guide and users guide. The only parts I reused from rc3 were tinydns, dnscache, and some unchanged libs like libm. It was a little tricky getting 2.4.20 up, especially finding the kernel in JN's underground maze of directories. I pretty much religiously followed the install guide for the basic setup, then the user's guide for the Orinoco stuff. The funny thing was, when I did so, my syslog had errors in it from cardmgr, and my wireless setup didn't completely work. Instead of getting 2 beeps, I got a beep, bonk. The syslog complained that it wanted wavlan2_cs.o. So I installed it and with an svi pcmcia restart, I was in 2 beep land. The Orinoco (WaveLAN turob) gold firmware is the latest i.e. version 8.10. I'm still on 7.28. And what exact packages are you loading, and please note file sizes and dates so I can compare. I go the packages directly from the sourceforge/leaf site. Here is my ls -l of /lib/modules/pcmcia -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8848 Jul 19 2002 8390.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root15788 Jul 19 2002 axnet_cs.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root11248 Jun 16 2002 ds.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6060 Jun 16 2002 hermes.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root33728 Jun 16 2002 i82365.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root42152 Jun 16 2002 orinoco.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8100 Jun 16 2002 orinoco_cs.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root58163 Jun 16 2002 pcmcia_core.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root18016 Jul 19 2002 pcnet_cs.o I took a closer look at your list, and there was nothing different about the files we both had, when I was using 2.4.18 and rc3. Now that I'm on 2.4.20 and 1.0-stable, our files totally differ. Have a great day, matt --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
wing newton wrote: Matt, I found out what the problem was. It was caused by memory conflict. ... Nice spotting that. Thank God for useful output to the syslog and dmesg, huh? BTW, do you know if I can use the same interface to do both ad-hoc and managed mode concurrently ? Never heard of that. If you don't get an answer, you might ask on a wireless list. Cheers, matt --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Matt, Thank you for your help. --- Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you're working towards eth0 for you wireless. That deviates from the users guide, not that it's a bad thing by nature, but I don't know what the affects are. I tried eth0, eth1, eth2. Eth0 was used because the ethernet network module was not loaded. In this case, tulip.o. Still, how do you determine the bios revision on an Orinoco Gold? The Orinoco (WaveLAN turob) gold firmware is the latest i.e. version 8.10. And what exact packages are you loading, and please note file sizes and dates so I can compare. I go the packages directly from the sourceforge/leaf site. Here is my ls -l of /lib/modules/pcmcia -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8848 Jul 19 2002 8390.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root15788 Jul 19 2002 axnet_cs.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root11248 Jun 16 2002 ds.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6060 Jun 16 2002 hermes.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root33728 Jun 16 2002 i82365.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root42152 Jun 16 2002 orinoco.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8100 Jun 16 2002 orinoco_cs.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root58163 Jun 16 2002 pcmcia_core.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root18016 Jul 19 2002 pcnet_cs.o I did a search on google on Hermes_read_ltv type not match . I found that there are patches for hermes.c. Don't know if Bering-orinoco needs the same patches. One explanation was that hermes.c does not do another scan after it detects errors on its first read. Where can I locate the source of the pcmcia-orinoco.lrp ? I still wonder if there is memory conflict problem between the orinoco card and another device on the same system. I may have to de-populate my system to find out if it is the case. If someone can confirm that this may be the case, it will be very helpful. And, this is my sysconfig.cfg - exactly what I got from the pcmcia-orinoco.lrp: Display syslinux.dpy timeout 0 default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/fd0u1680: msdos PKGPATH=/dev/fd0u1680 LRP=root,etc,local,modules,pcmcia,wireless,libm,pump ,dhcpd,shorwall,dnscache,weblet Thank you again. Best regards. Newton Regards, Matthew wing newton wrote: Matt, I brought up RC3 Bering-orinoco again. Here what I got : The card is WaveLAN/IEEE. .. hermes_read_ltv(): rid (0xfd20) does not match type (0xc7ff) hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 508 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0x00ff) eth0: Station identity 003f:00ff:d4bf:00ff eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 54463.255 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: failed to read MAC address ! orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed Thank you for your help. Newton --- Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wing newton wrote: ... The orinoco gold (WaveLAN Turbo 11 Mbps) works fine with all versions of Windows - XP, ME, 2000, Win98) but not with Bering's orinoco_cs. ... Ok, but as I mentioned, my Orinico Gold works in an ISA PC-Card adapter w/Bering rc3. I've never had any problems with it. Also, the users guide is written describing this setup, indicating that someone else has had success. Best, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
This is a long message, attempting to document the steps I took to get my Orinoco wireless cards to work in my laptop and in my LEAF/Bering box. I wrote: 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. Matt Schalit responded: 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? Also, you haven't pasted in the wireless config files nor the output of iwconfig. 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? What link speeds do you get when the two systems are next to each other? I took my laptop and both Orinoco cards to the local Cup O' Joe coffee shop, which offers free wireless access (http://www.internet-oasis.com/). In turn, I inserted each card and it was immediately recognized by the system (running Debian sarge, but using woody's pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools packages). 'sudo /sbin/dhclient eth1' immediately gave each card an IP address. I used a generic /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file for this (ie: unmodified from the pcmcia-cs package). Here are the snippets I collected: ** CARD #1 - IMMEDIATELY AFTER INSERTION [smerrill@smerrill main]$ more iwconfig.1 eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID: Nickname:HERMES I Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off [smerrill@smerrill main]$ more ifconfig.1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:61:81:5B BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x140 [smerrill@smerrill main]$ tail kern.log Jan 14 17:40:03 exodus kernel: orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others) Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048 Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72 Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:61:81:5B Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: Station name HERMES I Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: ready Jan 14 17:40:04 exodus kernel: eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0140-0x017f [smerrill@smerrill main]$ head lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted orinoco_cs 4712 0 (unused) orinoco29568 0 [orinoco_cs] hermes 3296 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] 3c575_cb 19876 2 cb_enabler 2528 2 [3c575_cb] ds 6624 2 [orinoco_cs cb_enabler] i82365 22416 2 pcmcia_core41408 0 [orinoco_cs cb_enabler ds i82365] ** CARD #1 -- AFTER RUNNING dhclient [smerrill@smerrill main]$ more iwconfig.dhclient eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:Internet Oasis (FREE) Nickname:HERMES I Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437GHz Cell: 00:02:2D:3F:FF:4E Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 [smerrill@smerrill main]$ more ifconfig.dhclient eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:61:81:5B inet addr:10.0.1.7 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1806 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:1188 (1.1 KiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x140 [smerrill@smerrill main]$ more proc_net_wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality| Discarded packets | Missed face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon eth1: 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 At this point, I did a few pings, browsed a few websites via lynx (yahoo, cnn, LEAF). Here's the status after a bit of use. [smerrill@smerrill main]$ more
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Newton, I have several Bering boxes running with the Lucent Silver cards. Aside from WEP, they should be the same as yours. I'm running firmware 8.1 also, but I do note that there is an 8.72 available now. Don't know if that breaks anything with Bering! I've seen similar reset messages on my systems when I try to move a lot of data and the connection strength is not good. However, I don't think that is the problem in your case - the log entry mentioning Intersil is a red flag. The system seems to think you have a PRISM2 card if I recall what Intersil is correctly. I went through the problem of Intersil being found and eventually cleared out the different configuration files of all unnecessary card entries before the card was identified correctly. Somewhere I saw a comment that the driver doesn't always see the card correctly if you specify a portion of the MAC address in the config... I used the *,*,*,* in the end and that, perhaps in conjunction with a very clean config file, solved the problem. I was suspicious that the script was perhaps reading the configuration files oddly as it seemed to skip over my card and settle on the Intersil as the next best thing. Anyway, these suggestions are based on not a whole lot ;-) But they did do the trick for me! Brock Matt, I brought up RC3 Bering-orinoco again. Here what I got : The card is WaveLAN/IEEE. .. hermes_read_ltv(): rid (0xfd20) does not match type (0xc7ff) hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 508 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0x00ff) eth0: Station identity 003f:00ff:d4bf:00ff eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 54463.255 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: failed to read MAC address ! orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed Thank you for your help. Newton --- 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
[leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
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=) (where 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=, EVSTAT=800b (where 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=, EVSTAT=800Z (where 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 --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
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? Also, you haven't pasted in the wireless config files nor the output of iwconfig. 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? What link speeds do you get when the two systems are next to each other? Matt Scott Merrill wrote: 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. --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
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 4s, 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Hi Scott IIRC there is an issue with the latest firmware level and the orinoco drivers. You might want to downgrade the firmware for a test. HTH Erich At 13:59 14.01.2003 -0500, you wrote: 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. THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Check the log messages. I have similiar problem with orinoco_cs driver. The orinoco gold (WaveLAN Turbo 11 Mbps) works fine with all versions of Windows - XP, ME, 2000, Win98) but not with Bering's orinoco_cs. For some reasons, the orinoco_cs can't access the card correctly. It can't get the Mac address from the firmware. I have tried most of the orinoco firmware - 6.x - 8.x (which is the latest). I still got the same result. I can't complain to Lucent (Agrere) because it works fine with Windows. Newton --- Scott Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 4s, 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
wing newton wrote: ... The orinoco gold (WaveLAN Turbo 11 Mbps) works fine with all versions of Windows - XP, ME, 2000, Win98) but not with Bering's orinoco_cs. ... Ok, but as I mentioned, my Orinico Gold works in an ISA PC-Card adapter w/Bering rc3. I've never had any problems with it. Also, the users guide is written describing this setup, indicating that someone else has had success. Best, Matt --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Matt, I brought up RC3 Bering-orinoco again. Here what I got : The card is WaveLAN/IEEE. .. hermes_read_ltv(): rid (0xfd20) does not match type (0xc7ff) hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 508 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0x00ff) eth0: Station identity 003f:00ff:d4bf:00ff eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 54463.255 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: failed to read MAC address ! orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed Thank you for your help. Newton --- Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wing newton wrote: ... The orinoco gold (WaveLAN Turbo 11 Mbps) works fine with all versions of Windows - XP, ME, 2000, Win98) but not with Bering's orinoco_cs. ... Ok, but as I mentioned, my Orinico Gold works in an ISA PC-Card adapter w/Bering rc3. I've never had any problems with it. Also, the users guide is written describing this setup, indicating that someone else has had success. Best, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] Bering + Orinoco wireless
Looks like you're working towards eth0 for you wireless. That deviates from the users guide, not that it's a bad thing by nature, but I don't know what the affects are. Still, how do you determine the bios revision on an Orinoco Gold? And what exact packages are you loading, and please note file sizes and dates so I can compare. Regards, Matthew wing newton wrote: Matt, I brought up RC3 Bering-orinoco again. Here what I got : The card is WaveLAN/IEEE. .. hermes_read_ltv(): rid (0xfd20) does not match type (0xc7ff) hermes @ 0x140: Truncating LTV record from 508 to 8 bytes. (rid=0xfd20, len=0x00ff) eth0: Station identity 003f:00ff:d4bf:00ff eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 54463.255 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: failed to read MAC address ! orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed Thank you for your help. Newton --- Matt Schalit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wing newton wrote: ... The orinoco gold (WaveLAN Turbo 11 Mbps) works fine with all versions of Windows - XP, ME, 2000, Win98) but not with Bering's orinoco_cs. ... Ok, but as I mentioned, my Orinico Gold works in an ISA PC-Card adapter w/Bering rc3. I've never had any problems with it. Also, the users guide is written describing this setup, indicating that someone else has had success. Best, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- 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