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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:41 pm    Post subject: Orinoco Reply with quote

I am running a Dell Inspiron, I have a built in NIC and a PCMCIA Orinoco card.

I have the onboard NIC set as module that doesnt autoload, I wrote a simple script that does the appropriate modprobes if I choose to take the laptop online. I am trying to configure my Orinoco Gold 128 802.11b but am having trouble. I have seen a number of posts and tried following them, but either I am dense or I didn't find the relevant post b/c the procedures haven't been successful. I am sure the problem is an oversight on my behalf. I am going to post what I presume are the relevant config files.

I have no PCMCIA support or wirelss support config'd in the kernel, using pcmcia-cs.

trying to name wireless card as net.eth1
I copied net.eth0 to net.eth1 and didn't make any changes.

/etc/config.d/net looks like:

iface_eth0="dhcp"
iface_eth1="dhcp"

i then run:

insmod i82365
insmod ds
cardmgr -f

cardmgr responds:
cardmgr[16877]: watching 1 sockets

I assume I have a problem here: /etc/conf.d/pcmcia:

# Put cardmgr options here
CARDMGR_OPTS="-f"
# To set the PCMCIA scheme at startup...
SCHEME="home"

# These are from the pcmcia-cs distribution, but aren't used yet
# Should be either i82365 or tcic
PCIC="i82365 tcic"
# Put socket driver timing parameters here
PCIC_OPTS=""
# Put pcmcia_core options here
CORE_OPTS=""

I need to set my essid to rover.

Also, can you recommend a GUI application that does signal strength monitoring similar in function to the one packaged for windows ...
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is probably the best guide (don't know if you've already seen it):
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26716&highlight=pcmcia

You actually do need to enable wireless support in your kernel (just general support, do not compile in drivers for your card).
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

do you mean:

Network Device Support --->
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) -------->
[*]


I also noticed in the pcmcia-cs list that my Orinoco card was listed under orinoco_cs driver. How does that come into play? I didn't see that in any of the posts.

When I try to net.eth1 start I get:
* Starting pcmcia...
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or support compiled into the kernel [ !! ]

* Bringing eth1 up...
* Failed to bring eth1 up

even tho I started it earlier with /sbin/cardmgr -f and it started.
ps -C cardmgr
PID TTY TIME CMD
16878 ? 00:00:00 cardmgr


I did look at that post, but it didn't work for me, looked again, still no dice. thanks for your help so far.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
do you mean:

Network Device Support --->
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) -------->
[*]

Yes, that should be correct. Be sure that nothing underneath that is selected at all. Also make sure that you do not have PCMCIA/Cardbus support:
Code:
General setup --->
PCMCIA/CardBus support --->
< > PCMCIA/CardBus support


After you recompile your kernel, emerge pcmcia-cs. Then make sure that i82365 ds are in your /etc/modules.autoload Then reboot and see if it works. If this doesn't work, do an lsmod to see what was actually loaded.


Your /etc/conf.d/pcmcia is identical to mine, so I don't think you have a problem there.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kernel config as posted.

reboot. still didnt come up.

ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

lsmod looks like:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
bcm4400 28288 1
ds 7464 1
i82365 41632 1
pcmcia_core 48544 0 [ds i82365]
i810_audio 27528 0
ac97_codec 11208 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 4580 2 [i810_audio]
ide-scsi 9072 0
sg 30604 0 (unused)
sr_mod 18680 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 90228 3 [ide-scsi sg sr_mod]

....

i cant start net.eth1
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
* Bringing eth1 up...
* Failed to bring eth1 up

under /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts i set the example orinoco essid = rover which is the ID i need to get onto my network ...

any other ideas?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have any encryption on the network?

Also try assigning the card a static IP address. Make sure you re-emerge pcmcia-cs after you compile the kernel. Also check dmesg for any unusual errors. Did you emerge wireless-tools? Type iwconfig and see if there are any wireless extensions. Cardctl is also a useful command (reset and eject). Yesterday I installed an Orinoco Gold I had to ifconfig eth1 up; you might want to try that. As far as signal strength iwconfig will show you numbers, I used to use korinoco, I'm not sure what else there is (kismet?).

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there is encryption available on the network but its not necessary to set up a key, you can go bareback so to speak. I popped the Orinoco card into an XP machine and set the essid and was on in a second without setting up an encyrption key.

i can't assign the card a static IP becuase I dont know the range if acceptable wireless IPs. I did emerge wireless-tools.

when i try to ifconfig eth1 up i get:

eth1: unknown interface: No such device

/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

tunl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

I notice that there is a wlan listed in /etc/init.d if I start it I get:
* Starting WLAN devices...
wlanctl-ng not found.

I dont even know where that got installed. i tried to emerge unmerge linux-wlan-ng but it said the packaged wasnt installed.

ugh, so frustrating.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't use the linux-wlan-ng drivers. I just use the ones that come with pcmcia-cs. It patches the orinoco drivers to .13b (can use airsnort -- monitor mode).

have you started pcmcia?
Code:

/etc/init.d/pcmcia start


What messages does dmesg give you?

Don't worry about iwconfig until eth1 shows up in ifconfig.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eth0: Station identity 0015:0002:0001:000a
eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.10.2
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 6 bytes. (rid=0xfc01, len=0x0000)
eth0: MAC address 15:00:02:00:01:00
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 34 bytes. (rid=0xfc0e, len=0x0000)
eth0: Station name ""
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfd10, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc06, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc83, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc82, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc0c, len=0x0000)
hermes @ IO 0x280: Truncating LTV record from -2 to 2 bytes. (rid=0xfc0d, len=0x0000)
eth0: firmware ALLOC bug detected (old Symbol firmware?). Trying to work around... failed!
eth0: Error -5 allocating Tx buffer
orinoco_cs: register_netdev() failed

I dont know why its calling it eth0 .... but that's what i get when i try to:

/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start then dmesg
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=420971#420971
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A signal strength monitor:
http://www.bochatay.net/programs/gwlan/
you will need the gai package at gai.sf.net
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:09 pm    Post subject: signal strength monitor Reply with quote

There is also http://korinoco.sourceforge.net/ for KDE. Not sure how up to date it is though.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wavemon is a nice, non-X, signal strength indicator, wich i like to use most [img:5a254ee620]http://gathering.tweakers.net/global/smileys/worshippy.gif[/img:5a254ee620]
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:24 pm    Post subject: config.opts Reply with quote

I had similar problems with my Dell i8.1k and my orinoco silver, what fixed to me was to change this line in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
change the line:
Code:
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

to:
Code:
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

now it works great. I did not have to make any other changes to /etc/pcmcia/, only to /etc/conf.d/net to set dhcp and to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 to load i82365 and ds.
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