Re: Re: Kernel 2.6 and Linksys WUSB11 2.8 error...

Just curious and maybe way off base here , but did you try  ifconfig wlan0
up


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Burns" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: [at76c503a-user] Re: Kernel 2.6 and Linksys WUSB11 2.8 error...


> Hi Rob,
>
> Well, I guess the driver is working now (???). wlan0 is now being
> registered correctly. I still can't ping my router. Here's what I did:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 essid myid channel 8
> ifconfig 192.168.0.5 [that address isn't being used on my network]
>
> I then tried pinging my router (192.168.0.1), but I got a host could not
> be reached message. Same thing for apple.com and other addresses. I
> tried this:
>
> iwconfig wlan0
>
> All of the settings are correct for my router/AP. However, signal
> strength was 120 or so, and link quality was 0. Also, the Cell number
> did not correspond to my AP's MAC ID.
>
> dmesg looks fine. I'm sort of a n00bie at networking, so can someone
> tell me what I need to do in order to be able to ping my router? If I
> can get as far as communication between my router and card I think I can
> figure out how to actually get on the net. Thanks.
>
> Robert
>
> AthlonRob wrote:
>
> >Message: 7
> >Subject: Re: [at76c503a-user] Kernel 2.6 and Linksys WUSB11 2.8 error...
> >From: AthlonRob <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:16:35 -0800
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:57, Robert Burns wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Then I looked in /dev and I didn't see a single wlanX
> >>nor an ethX device.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Nor should you have.  Ethernet devices don't appear in /dev.  Try
> >"ifconfig wlan0" and see what it says.
> >
> >
> >
> >> I therefore ran dmesg and found these two errors:
> >>
> >>at76c503.c: config descriptor too short (expected >= 32, got 25)
> >>at76c503.c: unexpected opmode 224
> >>
> >>I'm running Slackware 9.1 with kernel 2.6.0. Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It would be nice to see if they worked anyway... if not, hopefully
> >somebody else knows where to go next.  :-)
> >
> >Rob
> >
> >
> >
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