[linux-help] Re: Getting wireless card working under RH9
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Anybody ever got SOHO cable free wireless to work under red hat??? I have a
internet blaster from SOHO, and the PCMCIA card to go with it. I have never
got it to work with linux. It is five years old and is 802.11a. (or b or
something)
Mike
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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:18 PM
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Subject: [linux-help] Getting wireless card working under RH9
I picked up a pcmicia belkin f5d6020 ver 1, a prism 2 wireless card.
I d/l the rpm for wlan :
kernel-wlan-ng-pcmcia-0.2.0-7
kernel-wlan-ng-modules-rh9.18-0.2.0-7
kernel-wlan-ng-0.2.0-7
and have configured the /etc/wlan/wlan.conf, wlancfg-SSID
when I put the card in (and restart pcmcia, as there is some problem
with the hot plug). I get a blinking light on the card, and I see
the errors:
Jul 14 17:13:23 dhcp-164 kernel: linkstatus=ASSOCFAIL (unhandled)
Jul 14 17:13:27 dhcp-164 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Jul 14 17:13:27 dhcp-164 kernel: p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx
attempt prior to association, frame dropped.
I take this to mean I'm not getting associated with the access point,
but the wep key and ssid is correct.
I tried with my wireless at home, with this the wlancfg-cheezland
configuration, the only difference being using a password, 128 bit wep
generated and AuthType="opensystem".
the light on the card was study, and in the logs I saw
Jul 14 23:46:05 localhost kernel: linkstatus=CONNECTED
Jul 14 23:46:09 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Jul 14 23:47:10 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
so it looks like it was connected but it didn't like how I was asking
for an ip, but I can get an ip wired from the same accesspoint under
linux.
After I had been messing with this my friend showed my the wireless
configiration tool under redhat 9 that work out of the box with the
orinoco driver for him with my card, but as I installed the other it
didn't work on mine.
So what might be going wrong, there isn't a lot of documentation on the
wlan site, on what various options are for, I thought I need the
shared-key authtype, but I'm not sure.
Or should I uninstall all the wlan stuff and use the default rh9
configuration?
-- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis --
-- Type: text/x-sh
-- File: wlan.conf
-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
-- File: wlancfg-linksys
#=======USER MIB SETTINGS=============================
# You can add the assignments for various MIB items
# of your choosing to this variable, separated by
# whitespace. The wlan-ng script will then set each one.
# Just uncomment the variable and set the assignments
# the way you want them.
#USER_MIBS="p2CnfRoamingMode=1 p2CnfShortPreamble=mixed"
#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP. Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=true # true|false
lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=true # true|false
dot11PrivacyInvoked=false # true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0
dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true # true|false, in AP this means WEP is required.
# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
# keys (just a convenience)
#PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen # nwepgen, Neesus compatible
#PRIV_KEY128=false # keylength to generate
#PRIV_GENSTR=""
# or set them explicitly. Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0=a1:b2:c3:d4:f5 # format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or
dot11WEPDefaultKey1= # xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
dot11WEPDefaultKey2= # e.g. 01:20:03:40:05 or
dot11WEPDefaultKey3= # 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c:0d
#=======SELECT STATION MODE===================
IS_ADHOC=n # y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure
#======= INFRASTRUCTURE STATION ===================
# What kind of authentication?
AuthType="sharedkey" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)
#======= ADHOC STATION ============================
#BCNINT=100 # Beacon interval (in Kus)
#CHANNEL=6 # DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends
# on regulatory domain)
#BASICRATES="2 4" # Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s)
#OPRATES="2 4 11 22" # Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s)
-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
-- File: wlancfg-cheezland
#=======USER MIB SETTINGS=============================
# You can add the assignments for various MIB items
# of your choosing to this variable, separated by
# whitespace. The wlan-ng script will then set each one.
# Just uncomment the variable and set the assignments
# the way you want them.
#USER_MIBS="p2CnfRoamingMode=1 p2CnfShortPreamble=mixed"
#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP. Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=false # true|false
lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=false # true|false
dot11PrivacyInvoked=false # true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 # 0|1|2|3
dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true # true|false, in AP this means WEP is required.
# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
# keys (just a convenience)
PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen # nwepgen, Neesus compatible
PRIV_KEY128=true # keylength to generate
PRIV_GENSTR="passkey"
# or set them explicitly. Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0= # format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or
dot11WEPDefaultKey1= # xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
dot11WEPDefaultKey2= # e.g. 01:20:03:40:05 or
dot11WEPDefaultKey3= # 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c:0d
#=======SELECT STATION MODE===================
IS_ADHOC=n # y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure
#======= INFRASTRUCTURE STATION ===================
# What kind of authentication?
AuthType="opensystem" # opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)
#======= ADHOC STATION ============================
BCNINT=100 # Beacon interval (in Kus)
CHANNEL=6 # DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends
# on regulatory domain)
BASICRATES="2 4" # Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s)
OPRATES="2 4 11 22" # Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s)
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