Re: Problems with Lucent Tech (Orinoco) wireless card

From: Dan Mahoney (dan_at_webfolks.us)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:05:35 -0800

> I'm using a Lucent Tech (Orinoco) pcmcia wireless card on my Laptop running
> RH 8.0. The system does detect the card correctly and loads the module for
> it (wvlan_cs). The system gives me the two good beeps when booting and the
> lights on the card come on like it's happy. I'm using a Belkin wireless
> router. The system is dual boot and the wireless system works fine with
> Windows so I know the hardware is fine.

You might find the orinoco_cs module to work better for you.

> ifconfig yields:
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:23:E5:D4
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0> TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5892 (5.7 Kb)

Since we don't see an IP address here, it looks like you're not getting
an IP address via DHCP. How are you requesting your IP address? Are you
running "dhcpcd eth1"?

> iwconfig eth1 yields:
>
> eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"WLAN" Nickname:"Sara"
> Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462GHz Cell: 00:30:BD:C2:C5:64
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:7365-6375-31
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:61/92 Signal level:-30 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

Does your router have an SSID of "WLAN"? What the router calls SSID and
iwconfig call ESSID are the same thing.

> route yields:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>
> When I try to add a default route to my router the system just says that
> the "Network is unreachable"
>
> I notice that iwconfig shows an encryption key but I am not running WEP on
> my router (I live a good 1/2 mile from my nearest neighbor and the road).
> I set the ESSID to WLAN though my router calls it SSID. Could this be my
> problem?

Could be. Try "iwconfig eth1 key off".

Dan

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