PCMCIA, Wireless, WEP.

ixion · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 708

I couldn't find anything either relevant or (if it was relevant) helpful with my problem hence the new thread.

I have an IBM Thinkpad X23 and use a Cisco 350 series Wireless PCMCIA card. It worked like a champ with pcmcia-cs (after much searching of these forums

). But now we have implemented WEP on our wireless networks and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the card connected. I've played with all kinds of different utilities, but to no avail.
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paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

What drivers are you actually using to get the card working? Linux-wlan-ng, Host AP, etc?
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ixion · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 708

I'm not using the drivers from the kernel (if that's what you're asking), but instead letting 'card services' take care of it (as far as I remember). When inserting the card, dmesg reports this:

cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
airo: Probing for PCI adapters
airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0178-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
airo: Doing fast bap_reads
airo: MAC enabled eth1 00:00:00:00:00:00
eth1: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f

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Cheesefoam · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 89

Are your using fixed key traditional WEP, or Cisco's LEAP authentication?

If you're using LEAP, I'd suggest grabbing Cisco's drivers and installing them. Even if you aren't, I still suggest it.

From your dmesg output, it looks like everything is OK with the card itself - you're just not authenticating into the network, correct?

ixion · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 708

you are exactly right. The card works terrifically, but it will not authenticate to the network. We're not using LEAP, but I do agree with you on getting Cisco's drivers. Are they in portage? If not, I do have the Cisco install CD's with their drivers on them, although they aren't the newest thing out.
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bryon · Apprentice Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 163

Actully it is pretty easy to get wep working with linux. You just have to use iwconfig, it is pretty easy to set up. I dont renember the exact setup but you can find it in the man page. I found the man page very easy to understand.

DiD@SyN · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Switzerland

you can easely config your cisco wireless card through the proc device. I've written this script to get my pcmcia-card working with a WEP encryption. try it and modify the script to your settings.