cisco PCM342 and dhcp?

thomson · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 25

Installed Gentoo 1.2 on a Toshiba 730XCDT laptop. I'm trying to use a Cisco Aironet PCM342 802.11b card.

I have pcmcia-cs installed, as well as wireless-tools.

On boot:

the pcmcia stuff loads ok

cardmgr: modprobe airo executes ok, and I get the warning about the non-GPL driver.

cardmgr: modprobe airo_cs executes ok, and same warning.

cardmgr: executing: -./network start eth0'
cardmgr: * WARNING: "net.eth0" has already been started.

* Bringing eth0 up....
<really long wait, 45-60 sec>
dhcpcd: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

* Failed to bring eth0 up

* ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
"netmount" was not started.

and the rest of the boot sequence proceeds to completion.

I turned off WEP on the access point, just in case it was interfering, (I'm sure that's part of the problem) but still can't pull an IP.

Why is 'net.eth0' already started? Is that something I should be concerned about?

What should I look at next?

thx!

Lee

thomson · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 25

I keyed in:

# iwconfig eth0 essid "BABYLON"

<BABYLON is the ESSID>

it took it, and

# iwconfig

gives lots of correct looking info, including the right MAC and the essid for the access point.

thomson · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 25

Shut down, removed the PCM342 wireless card, and inserted a linksys pcmcia 100BaseT card (PCMLM56)

Turned on the laptop, and when boot was finished, no errors, and had an ip, could ping and all that.

the saga continues...

thomson · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 25

ok, had a bit more time to dink around with this.

# iwconfig eth0

Warning: Device eth0 has been compiled with version 60 of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
Some things may be broken...

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What does this mean?

I emerge unmerged wireless-tools to see if that fixed anything. It didn't.

thomson · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 25

ok, thru a long tortuous route (but which I later found in the wireless-tools FAQ) resolution is, as I suspected, a mismatch in the c headers:

emerge unmerge wireless-tools

mv /usr/include/wireless.h /usr/include/wireless.h.org
cp /usr/src/linux/include/linux/wireless.h /usr/include/wireless.h

emerge wireless-tools

I can now manually get it to grab an ip off the dhcp, and WEP works. I will check whether everything automagically sets up on boot after I finish emerging X....probably Friday <g>.