Re: Wireless Networking, no gateway, no DNS.

[Marcelo Rizzo <marcelo comiqueworlde com>]

It sounds like your wireless card and access point are not talking to each other. Are they setup up to talk on the smae channel, freq., and/or encryption.

M


Quoting "Eyal Levinshtein, CPA, CISA" <eyalcpa optonline net>:

> 
> I have a crazy problem.
> 
> I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop PII, 400mhz, 128mb of Ram.
> 
> I have Windows XP installed and running with Wireless networking configured
> 
> and working.
> 
> In Windows XP:
> 
>  >ipconfig /all
> 
>   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-02-2D-08-15-AB
>   Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
>   IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 169.254.93.100
>   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
>   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
>   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 167.206.3.207
>                                               167.206.7.4
> 
> The Access Point (Lucent AP-500) is connected to a (Linksys router 
> BEFSR411).  The access point is configured to obtain IP 
> automatically.    On Windows,  I had to specify the DNS and Gateway 
> settings in order for the laptop to get connected.   (Anyone has any idea 
> why the Lucent AP was not able to set DNS and Gateway? -- or am I missing 
> something -- That was in windows)
> 
> -----
> In Linux
> 
> I installed Red Hat Linux 8.0 2.4.18-14 on the same laptop and attempted to
> 
> apply the same configuration (same IP, same DNS, same Gateway as I had 
> setup on Windows.)  But It does not want to work.
> 
> Everything seem to be working, the card is active, but I am unable to ping 
> (192.168.1.1 -- The Linksys Router, and what suppose to be the gateway), I 
> am unable to ping (169.254.93.1  - The Lucent Access point ), and I am 
> unable to ping the DNS servers.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?      Bellow are some information that may be helpful
> 
> to you.    Your help is extremely appreciated.   I went through all the 
> HOW-To and went to tons of web sites that offer help, I hit a wall, I do 
> not know what to do.
> 
> Eyal
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # cardctl config
> Socket 0:
>    not configured
> Socket 1:
>    Vcc 5.0V  Vpp1 0.0V  Vpp2 0.0V
>    interface type is "memory and I/O"
>    irq 3 [exclusive] [level]
>    function 0:
>      config base 0x03e0
>        option 0x41
>      io 0x0100-0x013f [16bit]
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
>    no product info available
> Socket 1:
>    product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
>    manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
>    function: 6 (network)
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:08:15:AB
>            inet addr:169.254.93.100  Bcast:169.254.93.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:3 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:512 (512.0 b)
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 169.254.93.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U        40 0          0 lo
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # cat /var/lib/pcmcia/stab
> Socket 0: empty
> Socket 1: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
> 1       network orinoco_cs      0       eth0
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # lsmod
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> orinoco_cs              5896   1
> orinoco                36472   0  [orinoco_cs]
> hermes                  8196   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
> ds                      8712   2  [orinoco_cs]
> yenta_socket           12960   2
> pcmcia_core            54784   0  [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
> appletalk              26468   0  (autoclean)
> ipx                    22404   0  (autoclean)
> soundcore               6532   0  (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1           3516   0  (autoclean)
> ide-cd                 33608   1  (autoclean)
> cdrom                  33696   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
> autofs                 13348   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ipt_REJECT              3736   6  (autoclean)
> iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
> ip_tables              14936   2  [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
> mousedev                5524   1
> keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
> hid                    22244   0  (unused)
> input                   5888   0  [mousedev keybdev hid]
> usb-uhci               26188   0  (unused)
> usbcore                77024   1  [hid usb-uhci]
> ext3                   70368   1
> jbd                    52212   1  [ext3]
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # cat ifcfg-eth0
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=no
> GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> TYPE=Wireless
> DEVICE=eth0
> HWADDR=00:02:2d:08:15:ab
> BOOTPROTO=none
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
> IPADDR=169.254.93.100
> NAME=Laptop
> DOMAIN=laptop.eyal.com
> DNS_1="167.206.3.207"
> DNS_2="167.206.112.138"
> ESSID=EYAL
> CHANNEL=10
> MODE=Managed
> KEY=aaaaaaaaaaaaa
> RATE=11Mb/s
> NETWORK=169.254.93.0
> BROADCAST=169.254.93.255
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Portion of /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts relevent to my setup:
> 
> # Lucent Wavelan IEEE (+ Orinoco, RoamAbout and ELSA)
> # Melco/Buffalo Networks WLI-PCM-L11
> # Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support
> *,*,*,00:60:1D:*|*,*,*,00:02:2D:*)
>      INFO="Wavelan IEEE example (Lucent default settings)"
>      ESSID="any"
>      MODE="Managed"
>      RATE="auto"
>      KEY="s:aaaaaaaaaaaaa"
> # To set all four keys, use :
> #   KEY="s:secu1 [1] key s:secu2 [2] key s:secu3 [3] key s:secu4 [4] key
> [1]"
> # For the RG 1000 Residential Gateway: The ESSID is the identifier on
> # the unit, and the default key is the last 5 digits of the same.
> #   ESSID="084d70"
> #   KEY="s:84d70"
>      ;;
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Portion of /etc/pcmcia/config.opts relevent to my setup:
> 
> # Options for # Options for Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter 
> (AccessPoint mode)...
> module "orinoco_cs" opts "station_name=Eyal"
> # Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (ad-hoc mode)...
> #module "orinoco_cs" opts "port_type=3 channel=10 station_name=Eyal"
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
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