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So, here's the deal.  I installed the webgear aviator 2.4 wireless
network card (and pcmcia / isa adapter) in my Red Hat 6.1 linux system.
After a few hours of configuration changes, I finally go the system to
accept the isa adapter and aviator 2.4 pcmcia card so that the lights on
the card come on.  In addition, cardmgr apparently can configure it
properly (at least it gives me two high pitched beeps when it runs).
However, I cannot get it to talk to my notebook computer no matter what
I do.  Here is the pertinent info that I obtained from the machine:

1.  ifconfig shows my wired NE2000 network card as eth0 (it works fine)
    ifconfig shows the aviator 2.4 as eth1
        -  However, it only shows an IRQ setting (5 which is unused).
           It shows no I/O setting...is this normal?

2.  According to all the FAQs and howto's I read, the listing given by
insmod is correct.  I'd list them, but I don't have access to the linux
machine at the moment.

3.  I bound the address 192.10.10.2 to the ne2000 card and 10.10.10.2 to
the webgear card.  Does the rest (Network, Broadcast, Subnet mask, etc.
really matter in a private network?)  I am willing to change all the IPs
if someone has a configuration that works well!

4.  Anything else you need to know, let me know!

Eventually, I want to set up a router to route packets among several
different sources including the wireless network, the wired network, a
dialin PPP server (will this just connect to one of the current
networks?), and a cable modem/ADSL.  I also need help in this area since
I really don't have any experience setting up linux routers.

But, first, I just want to get the webgear equipment working.

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Any ideas you have are appreciated!

Thanks!
Kevin J Dressel

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Quote:> So, here's the deal.  I installed the webgear aviator 2.4 wireless
> network card (and pcmcia / isa adapter) in my Red Hat 6.1 linux system.

Me too.

Quote:> After a few hours of configuration changes, I finally go the system to
> accept the isa adapter and aviator 2.4 pcmcia card so that the lights on
> the card come on.  In addition, cardmgr apparently can configure it
> properly (at least it gives me two high pitched beeps when it runs).
> However, I cannot get it to talk to my notebook computer no matter what
> I do.  Here is the pertinent info that I obtained from the machine:

Can you post the last few lines of /var/log/messages after the card is
configured? Does one say starting network and the other say joining
network?

Quote:> 3.  I bound the address 192.10.10.2 to the ne2000 card and 10.10.10.2 to
> the webgear card.  Does the rest (Network, Broadcast, Subnet mask, etc.
> really matter in a private network?)  I am willing to change all the IPs
> if someone has a configuration that works well!

I hope you mistyped that here, these numbers don't make sense. Put one at
192.168.1.1 and the other at 192.168.1.2.

Quote:> 4.  Anything else you need to know, let me know!

I had to use version 1.70 of the driver, the current stable one never
worked.

dave

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Quote:

> > So, here's the deal.  I installed the webgear aviator 2.4 wireless
> > network card (and pcmcia / isa adapter) in my Red Hat 6.1 linux
system.

> Me too.

> > After a few hours of configuration changes, I finally go the system
to
> > accept the isa adapter and aviator 2.4 pcmcia card so that the
lights on
> > the card come on.  In addition, cardmgr apparently can configure it
> > properly (at least it gives me two high pitched beeps when it runs).
> > However, I cannot get it to talk to my notebook computer no matter
what
> > I do.  Here is the pertinent info that I obtained from the machine:

> Can you post the last few lines of /var/log/messages after the card is
> configured? Does one say starting network and the other say joining
> network?

Sure I can!  Here is everything that I can see relates to the
aviator/pcmcia stuff in messages :

Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services:
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin pcmcia:  modules
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel:   kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27
10:07:24 EDT 1999
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [apm] [pnp]
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at
0xc00fbf60
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at
f0000:bf88, dseg at f0000
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel:   Ricoh RF5C296/396 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port
0x3e0 ofs 0x00
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel:     host opts [0]: none
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin kernel:     ISA irqs (scanned) = 5,11,12 polling
interval = 1000 ms
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin pcmcia:  cardmgr.
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded
Mar  4 07:35:23 marvin cardmgr[402]: starting, version is 3.1.11
Mar  4 07:35:24 marvin cardmgr[402]: watching 1 sockets
Mar  4 07:35:24 marvin kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Mar  4 07:35:24 marvin kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
Mar  4 07:35:24 marvin kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x200-0x207
0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f
Mar  4 07:35:24 marvin kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff:
excluding 0xa00-0xa07
0xa20-0xa2f 0xaf8-0xaff
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin cardmgr[402]: initializing socket 0
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin cardmgr[402]: socket 0: RayLink PC Card WLAN
Adapter
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff:
clean.
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin cardmgr[402]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/pcmcia/ray_cs.o essid=MATRIX hop_dwell=128
beacon_period=256
translate=0'
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin kernel: ray_cs Detected: WebGear PC Card WLAN
Adapter Version
4.88 Jan 1999
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin kernel: eth1: RayLink, irq 5, hw_addr
00:00:F1:11:85:28
Mar  4 07:35:26 marvin cardmgr[402]: executing: './network start eth1'

Quote:

> > 3.  I bound the address 192.10.10.2 to the ne2000 card and
10.10.10.2 to
> > the webgear card.  Does the rest (Network, Broadcast, Subnet mask,
etc.
> > really matter in a private network?)  I am willing to change all the
IPs
> > if someone has a configuration that works well!

> I hope you mistyped that here, these numbers don't make sense. Put one
at
> 192.168.1.1 and the other at 192.168.1.2.

No mistake...just a trial.  The two addresses are legitimate IPs, so
they shoud have worked
regardless of how strange they look.  Besides, my original wired LAN
used the IP range
10.10.*.*, which is why the 192.10.10.2 thing happened.  I just quickly
changed the first
number so that it would be seen as two totally separate networks (class
A vs class C).  I
planned on setting up a router to route packets between the networks.
Regardless, I have
gone back and changed all the IPs to class C private IP's.  The wired
NE2000 card is not
192.168.1.1 and the wireless is 192.168.10.1.  It is still two separate
networks so a router is
still needed.

Quote:

> > 4.  Anything else you need to know, let me know!

> I had to use version 1.70 of the driver, the current stable one never
> worked.

I really don't know what version of the ray_cs driver I am using.  I
only installed the newest
stable  pcmcia package which already had it with it.  Whichever version
came with the
pcmcia package is the one I'm using.  Maybe I'll have to upgrade.

Thanks!
Kevin J Dressel

p.s. sorry if the formatting is screwed up!

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I got the gear working fine with the 3.1.11 package (which again, I
assume uses 1.67), but since you're quoting speeds up to 180KBps, I
might have to try that driver v1.70!  Hopefully, it won't*things
up.  I'd hate to go through all that again!

Cheers,
Kevin

Quote:> version number. I had the same problem with 1.67 but 1.70 of the
driver
> fixed it. I've gotten up to 150-180kb/second with it :-)

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This was between two machines sitting on the same desk. I had about 20%
packet loss while wandering around in the yard behind my office testing. I
didn't do any speed tests but pings were approx 10-15 ms.

dave

Quote:> > version number. I had the same problem with 1.67 but 1.70 of the
> driver
> > fixed it. I've gotten up to 150-180kb/second with it :-)

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When they took the Fifth Amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the First Amendment and I can't say anything.