Cisco Aironet 350 wireless in FC2-2.6.5
Tapas Ranjan
sarangi at bpost.kek.jp
Tue Feb 1 07:23:17 UTC 2005
Hi :
There is a little change to my last mail. I switch to
FC3 today, but has the same problem below. Please help.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Tapas Ranjan wrote:
> > Hi :
> > I was trying to set up a Cisco wireless lan card on a dell
> > inspiron 2100 which has FC2 with 2.6.5 kernel version.
> > The card blinks with "modprobe yenta_socket" and xmit packets.
> > But the Rx packet is always 0 and also it can't see the access point.
> > After googling in for 3-4 hours, I couldn't get any solution to my
> > problem.
>
> I think I answered this in a previous posting by you. If this is
> related to your other question, PLEASE don't start another thread.
> Just reply to your own posting and put in an "UPDATE" line in the body.
This is completely a different problem. In the last one
everything works(at least manually), but for this one "NO". Probably
the "UPDATE" word is better, but since I've started a new thread, please
co-op with it.
>
> First, the vast majority of wireless cards under a 2.6 kernel are
> "wlan0" rather than "eth1" but yours many be an exception. We need
> more details as to what kind of card it is. Cisco makes a number of
> wireless cards and since we don't know what kind it is, we can't
> recommend which driver is the right one to use.
This is a "Cisco Aironet 350 series Wireless Lan Adapter".
When I started the installation of FC2 with card inserted, it asked me
whether to active "eth0, eth1, wifi0" devices during boot up. So
that's how the "eth1" came.
> We need the output of
> "cardmgr" or the contents of the "/var/lib/pcmcia/stab" file if cardmgr
> is already running.
The "cardmgr" is running and content of "/var/lib/pcmcia/stab" is :
Socket 0: 350 Series WLAN Adapter
0 network airo_cs 0 eth1
>
> > Since I don't have a "usb" drive with me write now, I am unable
> > to send you the "iwconfig eth1" results. If you need that with any other
> > informations, I will be glad to send it to you. Hope to get some reply.
>
> You need to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 (or
> ifcfg-wlan0) file and make sure you have lines similar to:
>
> DEVICE=eth1 (or DEVICE=wlan0)
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ESSID="youressid open"
>
> That is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM for a wireless card.
Absolutely perfect...I have everything already set. Here is what I see in
the same place.
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
TYPE=Wireless
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=00:09:7c:39:db:ad
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=tsubaki
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=11Mb/s
key="s:2003ae0212 open"
------
This is the result of iwconfig :
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"tsubaki"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point:
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/160 Signal level=-107 dBm Noise level=-91 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:1577 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1614 Missed beacon:0
wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"tsubaki"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point:
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/160 Signal level=-107 dBm Noise level=-91 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:1577 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1614 Missed beacon:0
Here I don't have any idea from where this wifi0 is coming though
I have deleted it using network-conguration wizard.
----------
Result of ifconfig shows :
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:7C:39:DB:AD
inet6 addr: fe80::209:7cff:fe39:dbad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:820 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:820
TX packets:43 errors:50 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:50
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:15084 (14.7 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:9628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10498964 (10.0 MiB) TX bytes:10498964 (10.0 MiB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-09-7C-39-DB-AD-F4-EF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:820 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:820
TX packets:43 errors:50 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:50
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:15084 (14.7 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100
As, I have said earlier you can see RX packets:0 all the time and
in iwconfig, it can't set the proper key. I tried to set the key manually
but, no luck. Please help me out gurus...
---Tapas
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