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HydroDiOxide
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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: getting sitecom wl-140 pcmcia wireless to work |
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Got a sitecom pcmcia wireless card in my notebook. It (obviously) doesn't work out of the box. How do I get this thing up and running? I don't know where to start... iwconfig (I've installed wireless-tools) seems to pick the card up (although the leds for link and activity don't seem to do anything). This is the output: | Code: | gentoo-laptop hensen # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 NOT READY! ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Invalid
Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
Retry limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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Also, I allowed to use my neighbours wireless network. I don't know the accesspoint's name, however (got the wep-key obviously). I was wondering how I can scan for available networks.
Again, don't know where to start... |
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GNUtoo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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as it seems to have reconised your card you just need to configure it
you have a lot of options...
you can:
-install wiri-radar or
-use the gentoo-way to get your card configured or
-do it manualy or
-try networkmanager(didn't work for me)
-... there are realy a lot of options |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Okeh, so how do I do it the gentoo way... or how do I do it manually? Any references? Also, how do I scan for available networks? |
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GNUtoo
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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for the gentoo way(it's all in the gentoo manual):
if you have a baselayout that is inferior to the version 2(that is the default) add something like this to /etc/conf.d/net
| Quote: | prefered_aps=("the name of your acess point")
blacklist_aps=("SpeedTouch3D86B2" "SANTIS50-74F47E" "enda") #the others acess points in your building you don't want to connect to |
then make the following:
| Code: | su
cd /etc/init.d/
ln -s net.lo net.eth1
and rc-update add net.eth1 default |
for scanning manualy simply do:
| Code: | ifconfig eth1 up
iwlist eth1 scan |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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This rises more questions.
1. What is a baselayout and how do I determine which one I have.
2. I suppose I need to know the name of an accesspoint before I can configure ("any" doens't seem to work, but I know from my windows box that there aren't any in the building)
3. ifconfig eth1 up renders an error: | Code: | | SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory |
4. iwlist eth1 scan seems to work but the output is: no scan results. However, there are ap's in the building, so why are there no results?
5. I added eth1 to the default runlevel. When starting up runlevel 3 tries to start eth1. This doesn't work. I get the missing file directory error and something about a firmware problem.
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GNUtoo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| HydroDiOxide wrote: | This rises more questions.
1. What is a baselayout and how do I determine which one I have. |
it's the scripts like the startup scipt that bring your wireless card up...if you didn't know what it is you didn't chage it (unless you are in ~x86)
| HydroDiOxide wrote: | | 2. I suppose I need to know the name of an accesspoint before I can configure ("any" doens't seem to work, but I know from my windows box that there aren't any in the building) |
yes
[quote="HydroDiOxide"]3. ifconfig eth1 up renders an error: | Code: | | SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory |
what is your card?(you can have the chipset name running lspci)
| HydroDiOxide wrote: | | 4. iwlist eth1 scan seems to work but the output is: no scan results. However, there are ap's in the building, so why are there no results? |
| HydroDiOxide wrote: | 5. I added eth1 to the default runlevel. When starting up runlevel 3 tries to start eth1. This doesn't work. I get the missing file directory error and something about a firmware problem.
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yes that's what i thought seeing SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
you need to do a lspci:
open a console and type
su
lspci
then search for the firmware assoriated to your chipset in portage(or just send me the lspci i'll tell you wich one you need to use) |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | 00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1632M Northbridge+Trident (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) |
I suppose it's the last one. |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:46 am Post subject: |
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My best guess is that I need the prism54-firmware package (although my specific chipset isn't mentioned). But when I try to emerge it I get the following error:
| Code: | gentoo-laptop hensen # emerge -av prism54-firmware
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] net-wireless/prism54-firmware-1.0.4.3 92 kB
Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 92 kB
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/prism54-firmware-1.0.4.3 to /
>>> Downloading 'http://www.prism54.org/firmware/1.0.4.3.arm'
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
!!! Couldn't download '1.0.4.3.arm'. Aborting. |
What can I do about it? |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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GNUtoo
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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mabe try searching for softmac firmware...
because according to http://www.prism54.org/faq.html you need softmac firmware
so mabe you have the good firmware...so mabe:
-you have wrong proxy settings
-your ebuild doesn't work because it's a bug and so you should bugreport |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: |
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But can I try if the prism54-firmware ebuild works? Or can you say in advance that it won't work, because it isn't written for the chip on my pcmcia card?
Should pcmcia be loaded as a module or should it be built into the kernel? |
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GNUtoo
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| HydroDiOxide wrote: | But can I try if the prism54-firmware ebuild works? Or can you say in advance that it won't work, because it isn't written for the chip on my pcmcia card?
Should pcmcia be loaded as a module or should it be built into the kernel? |
try first as module...mine that is a ipw2200 doesn't work when built into the kenrel |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Still no succes.... I installed te prism54-firmware, but I still get the no firmware error. |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| mabe try to install the firmware in another location... |
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HydroDiOxide
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| It seems that an/the ndiswrapper works for this particular chip/card. I've tried it on a Xubuntu system. I still wasn't able to get on the internet, but that might be a config-problem or a signal-problem. Scanning worked, so the card seems to work. |
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