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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