Routing problems with Wavelan wireless card

Routing problems with Wavelan wireless card

Post by justin.richard.. » Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:00:00



Finally managed to get the Wavelan card recognised and sort of working

iwconfig will show connectivity to the Access Point but unable to route
any IP

ifconfig shows errors which appear to be Transmit Timeout errors
in /var/log/messages.

The IP address of the card is 192.168.1.16

Initial route seems OK but it hangs as it can't see the default
gateway, all systems on the network are in the subnet 192.168.1.x

Anybody experienced the same problem with Wireless cards on Linux?

We are running

Mandrake kernel 2.2.13
pcmcia 3.1.18
wavelan2_cs 6.02

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Routing problems with Wavelan wireless card

Post by Dudley Iris » Tue, 08 Aug 2000 04:00:00


   > Finally managed to get the Wavelan card recognised and sort of working
   >
   > iwconfig will show connectivity to the Access Point but unable to route
   > any IP
   >
   > ifconfig shows errors which appear to be Transmit Timeout errors
   > in /var/log/messages.
   >
   > The IP address of the card is 192.168.1.16
   >
   > Initial route seems OK but it hangs as it can't see the default
   > gateway, all systems on the network are in the subnet 192.168.1.x
   >
   > Anybody experienced the same problem with Wireless cards on Linux?
   >
   > We are running
   >
   > Mandrake kernel 2.2.13
   > pcmcia 3.1.18
   > wavelan2_cs 6.02
   >
   >
   > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
   > Before you buy.

I was at this point a few weeks ago and could not get any traffic
through.  I believe that the problem is that the open source driver and
the access port won't interoperate.  However, I have not been able to
confirm this.  (Anybody know for sure???)

I do know that when I switched to the Lucent binary driver.  I was
able to get the card to work.

Dudley Irish

 
 
 

1. Red Hat 7.3 & Orinoco WaveLAN Wireless Card (Doesn't Work)

Hello,

I have a laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) and was previuosly running Red Hat 7.2
successfully with my Orinoco Wireless Card.  I did a fresh install (with the
wireless card in) and now I can't seem to get it to work.

After boot - what I did under Red Hat 7.2 to get it to work was:

ifconfig eth0 down (Shut Down the Physical Ethernet Port)
ifconfig eth1 up (Bring up the Wireless card)
iwconfig eth1 essid any  (to use any AP)
iwconfig eth1 enc off (turn off encryption)
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
pump -i eth1 (to get an IP address)

I have green lights on the wavelan card but am unable to obtain an IP
address.  When I do a straight iwconfig after this I show "no wireless
extensions) but if I do a iwconfig eth1 I can see the ESSID for my AP and it
appears to have a wireless connection - but again I never get an IP address?

Thoughts on any changes from Red Hat 7.2 to Red Hat 7.3 on the Wireless Card
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