Thanx Joshua,
what you said in your mail was all I needed.
Now I became more brave and tried with encryption.
this time I am getting the follosing messages and all sort of wierd
things happen.
sometimes the led keeps blinking, after I played once with the wlancfg-*
file that blinking stopped but still no connection.
When I insert the card.. the messages I get on
/var/log/everything/current are
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Feb 20 00:15:26 [cardmgr] socket 0: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card
(Prism 2.5)
Feb 20 00:15:26 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
Feb 20 00:15:26 [kernel] init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.16-pre8 Loaded
Feb 20 00:15:26 [kernel] prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 10, io
0x0100-0x013f
Feb 20 00:15:26 [cardmgr] executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
Feb 20 00:15:26 [/etc/hotplug/net.agent] invoke /etc/init.d/net.wlan0
start
Feb 20 00:15:27 [kernel] ident: nic h/w: id=0x800c 1.0.0
Feb 20 00:15:27 [kernel] p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt prior
to association, frame dropped.
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] +
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=26:66:30:05:00
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute="data_string_too_short"
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=data_string_too_short
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=no_value
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute="data_string_too_short"
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=data_string_too_short
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=no_value
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute="data_string_too_short"
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=data_string_too_short
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + resultcode=no_value
Feb 20 00:15:27 [cardmgr] + [33;01m* [0m WARNING: "net.wlan0" has
already been started.
Feb 20 00:15:27 [rc-scripts] WARNING: "net.wlan0" has already been
started.
Feb 20 00:15:27 [kernel] linkstatus=CONNECTED
Feb 20 00:16:27 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server
response
Feb 20 00:16:27 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring wlan0 up
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if I do ifconfig.. I get
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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9000 (8.7 Kb) TX bytes:9000 (8.7 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:30:5E:1F
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:584 (584.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x100
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Also after a minut I got message on /var/log/everything/current
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Feb 20 00:23:16 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server
response
Feb 20 00:23:16 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring wlan0 up
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Am i doing some common mistake over here?
again... thanx for the response
Spundun
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:58, Joshua J. Berry wrote:
> You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script. Usually you can
> just copy net.eth0 and add "need pcmcia" to the depend() section.
>
> You'll also need to setup your wlan0 interface in
> /etc/conf.d/net...usually something like "iface_wlan0=dhcp" works just
> fine.
>
> After that, I *believe* there is a way to get it to start automatically,
> though I'm not sure (I always start it manually with
> /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start on my laptop). I haven't actually had much
> time to play around with my wireless configuration yet, so perhaps
> someone else can jump in here and add the part I'm missing.
>
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