Re: hx4700 WiFi

Ok it actually was a problem with the router. I don't know exactly what 
setting but I reset it to factory defaults and it worked!! The funny 
thing is that all the other devices worked fine. :)
Anyway I'm really impressed!

-Julien

Julien Bramary wrote:
> First of all, I must say this is neat!
>
> I successfully installed GPE on the first try and all went smoothly.
>
> I then wanted to try some connectivity and installed the WiFi firmware 
> from sdg.
> On reboot, the interface is detected.
>
> I configured everything and the access point is associated on the 
> first try and DHCP gqve me an IP and provided the route and DNS!
> I must say I am amazed (it took me longer to make the WiFi work on my 
> laptop lol).
>
> I am now able to ssh into the iPaq via this WiFi network.
>
> HOWEVER:
> I can't make an http connection :'( All wget requests hang and the 
> browser can't connect.
>
> It is not a DNS problem since I can ping google:
> PING www.l.google.com (64.233.183.147): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 64.233.183.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=28.2 ms
> 64 bytes from 64.233.183.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=25.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 64.233.183.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=28.1 ms
>
> iwconfig gives:
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11b+  ESSID:"Gromit"  Nickname:"acx v0.3.35"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Access Point: 
> 00:18:39:C5:FE:0C
>          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm   Sensitivity=176/255
>          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off
>          Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX   Security 
> mode:open
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality=59/100  Signal level=43/100  Noise level=0/100
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> ifconfig gives:
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:79:46:BB:F9
>          inet addr:192.168.16.111  Bcast:192.168.16.255  
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:31145 (30.4 KiB)  TX bytes:20106 (19.6 KiB)
>          Interrupt:46
>
> route gives:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    
> Use Iface
> 192.168.16.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        
> 0 wlan0
> default         192.168.16.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        
> 0 wlan0
>
> It looks like the device is firewalling itself. This lead me to 
> investigating iptables but the required module is not built in:
> root@ipaq-pxa270:~# iptables -L
> FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
> iptables v1.3.3: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables 
> who? (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
>
> It looks to me like a bug in the Familiar kernel? Since I can ssh 
> fine, I discarded a driver problem... maybe too fast?
>
> For the record, here is the dmesg output when associating:
> found station with matching ESSID! ('Gromit' station, 'Gromit' config)
> matching station found: 00:18:39:C5:FE:0C, joining
> sending authentication1 request, awaiting response
> acx_set_status(2):WAIT_AUTH
> rates_basic:0003->03, rates_supported:0127->1F
> AUTHEN adev->addr=00:12:79:46:BB:F9 a1=00:12:79:46:BB:F9 
> a2=00:18:39:C5:FE:0C a3=00:18:39:C5:FE:0C adev->bssid=00:18:39:C5:FE:0C
> algorithm is ok
> acx_process_authen auth seq step 2
> acx_set_status(3):AUTHENTICATED
> sending association request, awaiting response. NOT ASSOCIATED YET
> association: requesting caps 0x0011, ESSID 'Gromit'
> BSS_Type = 2
> JoinBSSID MAC:00:18:39:C5:FE:0C
> acx_set_status(4):ASSOCIATED
> ASSOCIATED!
> get_mask 0x00000000, set_mask 0x00000040
> setting RXconfig to 2010:0FDD
> get_mask 0x00000000, set_mask 0x00000000 - after update
> acx_i_timer: adev->status=4 (ASSOCIATED)
>
>
> I hope I am missing something really stupid and someone can tell me 
> what's wrong here ;)
>
> Thanks for reading!
> -Julien
>
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