Re: Mandrake 9.2 & PCMCIA (wg511)

dhinds_at_sonic.net
Date: 11/27/03

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    Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 02:11:35 GMT

    In comp.os.linux.portable JiggaHertz <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:

    > I'm not able to ping my router so I've tried the following:

    > [root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 ap any
    > Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
    > SET failed on device eth1 ; Bad address.

    > [root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 frequency 2.4G
    > Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
    > SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

    > [root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 ap any
    > Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
    > SET failed on device eth1 ; Bad address.

    > [root@coredump ~]# iwconfig eth1 commit
    > Error for wireless request "Commit changes" (8B00) :
    > SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

    > It looks like it's operating at the correct freq and channel though... as my
    > router is at 2.4GHz and on Channel 01.
    > [root@coredump ~]# iwlist eth1 frequency
    > eth1 47772 channels in total; available frequencies :
    > Channel 245 : -0 kHz
    > Channel 198 : 0 kHz
    > Channel 245 : -0 kHz
    > Channel 00 : inf GHz
    > Channel 00 : -1.07268e+07 kHz
    > Channel 00 : 1.9e+11 GHz
    > ... (whole bunch of numbers from 0 to inf)
    > Current Frequency:2.412GHz (channel 01)
    >
    > I thought these errors were caused by recognizing the wrong card, but I
    > guess not? This is what ifconfig looks like:

    I think I can safely say that these errors are not related to the
    'lspci' problem or to the card being misidentified. However I don't
    know what the real problem is. I have no specific experience with
    this driver. Perhaps it does not fully implement the wireless tools
    interface.

    > eth1:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:5A:22:00:00
    > inet addr:192.168.0.9 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:0.0.0.0
    > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 Memory:cc983000-cc985000

    It might help to set a valid broadcast address and netmask?

    -- Dave

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