Hi there,
I am trying to get my Dell laptop to work with a Lucent 802.11b PCMCIA
card, and for the live of me can't get it running! Here's my setup --
Dell Inspiron 5000
RedHat Linux 7.1
Lucent Technologies PCMCIA 802.11b card --
Model PC24E-H-FC
S/N: 99UT12435199
T/N: 95101363
P/N: 012372A
With an out-of-the-box RH 7.1 installation, when I plugged in the
card, the wvlan_cs module got loaded as expected and I got two beeps,
the second one being the "happy" rather than the "error" one. At this
point, I got the following in syslog --
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost cardmgr[580]: initializing socket 1
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost cardmgr[580]: socket 1: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE
Adapter
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost cardmgr[580]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs'
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost cardmgr[580]: executing: './network start eth0'
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth0
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 60 1d f0 d6 0a
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: NET4: Linux IPX 0.46 for NET4.0
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 60 1d f0 d6 0a
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost kernel: wvlan_cs: Valid channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: register event not handled
Jul 16 16:20:56 localhost pumpd[1533]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:17:54) Mon Jul 16
16:20:56 2001
Jul 16 16:22:56 localhost dhcpcd[1543]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server
response
at which point I could do --
[root@localhost ihab]# iwconfig eth0
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Wavelan Network" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Frequency:2.422GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Ad-Hoc
Access Point: 02:60:1D:F0:D6:0A
Bit Rate:2Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:7365-6375-31
Power Management:off
Link quality:0/92 Signal level:-102 dBm Noise level:-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
but, per the syslog, my DHCP requests failed.
I then tried to configure the interface manually. I know that my base
station is a Linksys BEFW11S4 router, and I know its IP address on the
local network, so --
[root@localhost ihab]# ifdown eth0
[root@localhost ihab]# ifconfig eth0 up
[root@localhost ihab]# route add -host 192.168.1.1 eth0
[root@localhost ihab]# route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
giving me the following kernel routing table --
[root@localhost ihab]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
and then I try to ping --
[root@localhost ihab]# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 0.0.0.0 : 56(84) bytes of data.
but this hangs with no results. The first thing I thought of is that,
maybe, I should change my mode (it seems I should have an
"infrastructure" client setup). So --
[root@localhost ihab]# iwconfig eth0 mode managed
[root@localhost ihab]# iwconfig eth0
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Wavelan Network" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Frequency:2.422GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
...
but still, when I ping, I get nothing, and the DHCP request still
times out --
[root@localhost /root]# ifup eth0
Determining IP information for eth0...Operation failed.
Regarding the sanity of my setup, here are some data points --
1. I regularly connect to my BESW11S4 router via the 10/100BaseT
ports, and it works quite well as a DHCP server and gateway
to the rest of the net. This is via Linux, and using a (3Com)
PCMCIA 10/100 card in the same slot in which I'm using my
Wavelan card. This tells me that my PCMCIA subsystem, both
hardware and software, are okay, and that my router is also
fine.
2. Under Windows, I'm sad to say ;) that the Wavelan card works
without a hitch. This means that my router is doing the right
things over the wireless connection, and that the Wavelan
card, and the physical issues such as the distance between my
laptop and the router, are not a problem. In fact, the software
utilities report an "excellent connection".
Could someone please provide some pointers? Thanks and peace,
Ihab Awad
--
Ihab A Awad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Center for Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics,
University of Minnesota. http://www.cbc.umn.edu/~ihab/
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