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Re: [PLUG] Setting up a LinkSys Wireless NIC
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On Monday 10 June 2002 22H:30, you wrote:
> I bought a LinkSys Wireless NIC (WPC 11 v3), and a LinkSys Wireless Access
> Point. I set the Ap to a static address, and no WEP (I can just see the
> feathers rustling now :-); I'll change that after I get the NIC working).
>
I had an older version of the WPC 11 that worked flawlessly for almost a
year, and then went belly up (no lights, doesn't even work under windows). I
suspect that one of the chips inside overheated and fried (because it became
quite hot the last time it worked).
Picked up a v3 recently, but haven't spent a lot of time getting that to work
yet. It didn't work with the older wlan-ng drivers I have installed on my
notebook. Maybe I'll try to get that working later today.
> This card uses the PRISM driver, so I downloaded the drivers from
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/, and compiled them. On a reboot
> (wth the new NIC loaded, as well as the old NIC), I get these devices:
>
Depending on how you have routing setup, you might want to bring eth0 down
while you're working with wlan0.
> root@inspiron-3k:/usr/local/src# ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:DA:EA:2E
> inet addr:192.168.100.51 Bcast:192.168.100.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:489 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:2 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:748249 (730.7 KiB) TX bytes:41287 (40.3 KiB)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x400
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:400 (400.0 b) TX bytes:400 (400.0 b)
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:AA:0B:1B
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
>
> So I presume the driver is loading properly for the new NIC.
> root@inspiron-3k:/usr/local/src# lsmod
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> prism2_cs 54256 0 (unused)
> p80211 9192 1 [prism2_cs]
> 3c575_cb 19876 2
> cb_enabler 2528 2 [3c575_cb]
> ds 6688 2 [prism2_cs cb_enabler]
> sb 7360 0 (unused)
> sb_lib 33184 0 [sb]
> uart401 6144 0 [sb_lib]
> sound 53772 0 [sb_lib uart401]
> soundcore 3588 5 [sb_lib sound]
> isa-pnp 28872 0 [sb]
> printer 5472 0 (unused)
> ide-cd 26560 0
> sr_mod 13784 0 (unused)
> cdrom 27296 0 [ide-cd sr_mod]
> rtc 5560 0 (autoclean)
> ide-scsi 7648 0
> scsi_mod 50044 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
> i82365 22288 2
> pcmcia_core 40992 0 [prism2_cs cb_enabler ds i82365]
> parport_pc 15912 1 (autoclean)
> lp 5888 0 (autoclean)
> parport 23840 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
>
> but ... where do I go from here? I have a DHCP server running on the wired
> part of my LAN, but "pump" doesn't seem to locate an address for "wlan0".
> (I tried "pump" and "pump -i wlan0"
>
I haven't used DHCP over wireless under Linux. The Access Point may not be
configured to pass through broadcast packets (assuming they are even being
sent over the wireless link at this point). It might be interesting to try
setting up with a static IP first just to test the wireless link.
> Anybody have any experience with this card, and can lead me to the next
> steps to get it working?
>
> (OS = Libranet, kernel = 2.4.16)
>
Ok, I'm curious, what's Libranet? Another Linux distro, but geared towards
Libraries? Or, is this libra as in free?
HTH,
- -Jason Nocks
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