On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 03:59, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:48, Joe Carey wrote:
> > > It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an
> > > Agere/Proxim/Orinoco card, i.e. "Hermes" on a card built with the
> > > Prism2.5 chipset. You probably want the linux-wlan-ng drivers.
> > >
> > > Check these links:
> > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/linux-wlan-ng
> > > http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
> > >
> > > Have fun!
> > >
> > > joe
> >
> > That doesn't quite make sense to me. If the driver is wrong than why
> > does it report that it detected an "Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device" and then
> > gets information from it like the MAC address and firmware revision?
> > This fellow http://members.iinet.net.au/~mtriggs/wireless.html got his
> > card to work with the orinoco_pci driver.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the latest release of linux-wlan-ng doesn't work with
> > 2.6, although that support is coming down the pipe in the next release
> > according to the CHANGELOG at linux-wlan.com. I attempted to build the
> > module from their source tree for 0.2.1-pre20, but it expects a file
> > [kernel-source-root]/.tmp_versions to be present, which is not shipped
> > with kernel-headers-2.6.3-1-686 (or its dependency). So, without
> > actually building my own kernel, what would it take to get a kernel
> > source tree that matched the one used to build the stock Debian kernel
> > verbatim?
> >
>
> Generally you have to do at least copy the .config file and do a "make
> dep" after installing the kernel sources before you have anything
> usable by other packages.
>
> HTH,
> Jeffrey
Well, I still needed to manually create the .tmp_versions directory,
since building an additional kernel didn't create it. However,
linux-wlan-ng is giving me fits as well. modprobing the driver worked
OK, but nothing after that works. I attempted to follow the directions
in the README file for the source, but it borked up my system so badly
that I had to reboot in order for my existing wired lan interface to
work again.
First, I tried to use the Debian ifup/ifdown method of configuring the
thing. Adding "alias wlan0 prism2_pci" to /etc/modules/linux-wlan-ng
doesn't lead to on-demand module loading, instead I had to add it to
/etc/modutils.d/linux-wlan-ng and rerun update-modules. That wasn't
enough to get ifup to work, here is the relevant stanza from
/etc/network/interfaces:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_essid 203cfr
wireless_mode managed
wireless_enc on
wlan_ng_key0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ifup wlan0 reports this:
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
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All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:09:5b:67:95:0d
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:09:5b:67:95:0d
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.
Sleeping.
So, next I tried to make the "upstream" method of using an init script
to do the job. After editing /etc/wlan/wlan.conf (attached) and
creating an /etc/wlan/wlancfg-203cfr (attached) file from
wlancfg-DEFAULT and running the supplied `rc.wlan start`, This is all
that happens:
Starting WLAN Devices:
And nothing else.
So, any help is still appreciated.
-Jonathan
#=======USER MIB SETTINGS=============================
# You can add the assignments for various MIB items
# of your choosing to this variable, separated by
# whitespace. The wlan-ng script will then set each one.
# Just uncomment the variable and set the assignments
# the way you want them.
#USER_MIBS="p2CnfRoamingMode=1 p2CnfShortPreamble=mixed"
#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP. Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=true # true|false
lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=true # true|false
dot11PrivacyInvoked=true # true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 # 0|1|2|3
dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true # true|false, in AP this means WEP is required.
# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
# keys (just a convenience)
#PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen # nwepgen, Neesus compatible
#PRIV_KEY128=false # keylength to generate
#PRIV_GENSTR=""
# or set them explicitly. Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0= # format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or
dot11WEPDefaultKey1= # xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
dot11WEPDefaultKey2= # e.g. 01:20:03:40:05 or
dot11WEPDefaultKey3= # 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c:0d
#=======SELECT STATION MODE===================
IS_ADHOC=n # y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure
#======= INFRASTRUCTURE STATION ===================
# What kind of authentication?
AuthType="sharedkey" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)
#======= ADHOC STATION ============================
BCNINT=100 # Beacon interval (in Kus)
CHANNEL=6 # DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends
# on regulatory domain)
BASICRATES="2 4" # Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s)
OPRATES="2 4 11 22" # Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s)
#! /bin/sh
# Wireless LAN adapter configuration
#
# etc/wlan/wlan.conf
#
# Copyright (C) 1999 AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# linux-wlan
#
# The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public
# License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file
# except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
# the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
#
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# IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or
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#
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# terms of the GNU Public License version 2 (the "GPL"), in which
# case the provisions of the GPL are applicable instead of the
# above. If you wish to allow the use of your version of this file
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# by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
# and other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete
# the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this
# file under either the MPL or the GPL.
#
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Inquiries regarding the linux-wlan Open Source project can be
# made directly to:
#
# AbsoluteValue Systems Inc.
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# http://www.linux-wlan.com
#
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Portions of the development of this software were funded by
# Intersil Corporation as part of PRISM(R) chipset product development.
#
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# This file is sourced by all configuration scripts.
#
# The WLAN_DEVICES variable identifies the device names of each WLAN device.
# If you have more than one, make sure each one is identified in a whitespace
# separated list that's assigned to WLAN_DEVICES.
WLAN_DEVICES="wlan0"
# Below is the list of channels to scan, when we scan.
ChannelList="01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:00:00:00"
# Below is the min and max time we linger on a channel during a scan.
ChannelMinTime=200
ChannelMaxTime=250
# And here we have the master scan toggle.
WLAN_SCAN=n
##########
# Note: To bind to a specific network, change the SSID to something different
# and create the file /etc/wlan/wlancfg-<SSID> with your network-
# specific settings. If this file is not present, the settings in
# /etc/wlancfg/wlancfg-DEFAULT are used.
#
# for example:
# SSID_wlan0="linux-wlan"
# This expects a file called "/etc/wlan/wlancfg-linux-wlan" to be present.
#
# Use a SSID of "" to associate with any network in range.
#########
SSID_wlan0="203cfr"
ENABLE_wlan0=y
#SSID_wlan1=""
#ENABLE_wlan1=n
#SSID_wlan2=""
#ENABLE_wlan2=n
