Need help configuring

Hi list,

I hope this is an appropriate place to ask for help, I apoligize if it
isn't.

For the past week I've been trying to configure my wireless network on a
RedHat 9 install. I have tried many different cards, dirvers and access
points with the same results.

Currently, I am trying an SMC2635W card with a Linksys WirelessG AP in
mixed mode. My modules loaded are:

[root@dschaible-ops root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
ds                      8680   0  (unused)
8211                   66984   1
yenta_socket           13472   2
pcmcia_core            57216   0  [ds yenta_socket]
i810_audio             27720   1  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13640   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               6404   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
agpgart                43744   3  (autoclean)
nvidia               1765056  12  (autoclean)
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
3c59x                  30704   2
sg                     36524   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18168   0  (autoclean)
ide-scsi               12208   0
ide-cd                 35676   0
cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
sbp2                   20672   0
scsi_mod              107160   4  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi sbp2]
ohci1394               20200   0  (unused)
ieee1394               48780   0  [sbp2 ohci1394]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
ntfs                   59008   1  (autoclean)
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5492   1
hid                    22148   0  (unused)
input                   5888   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26348   0  (unused)
usbcore                78816   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   70784   2
jbd                    51892   2  [ext3]

iwconfig output shows:

[root@dschaible-ops root]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"wlan1" 
Nickname:"dschaible-ops.cssiinc.com"
          NWID:off/any  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.452GHz  Bit Rate=11Mb/s
          Tx-Power=47 dBm   Sensitivity:0/65535
          Retry limit:3   RTS thr=2346 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX   Encryption
mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

iwconfig version:

[root@dschaible-ops root]# iwconfig --version
iwconfig  Version 25
          Compatible with Wireless Extension v15 or earlier,
          Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v15.

eth2      Recommend Wireless Extension v12 or later,
          Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v15.

Everything appears to be fine, but I can never get a signal. I have the
AP sitting right next to the machine, less than 3 feet away but never a
signal. Manually configuring an IP address to the card works, but no
data is ever recieved.

[root@dschaible-ops root]# ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.139 netmask
255.255.255.0
[root@dschaible-ops root]# ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:E8:00:00:00
          inet addr:192.168.1.139  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:15630 (15.2 Kb)

I don't know what other info I could provide, but I will share whatever
is needed. After all the money I've spent on various cards and AP's I
really want this to work in Linux. (of course it all works fine in
Windoze! but I want Linux!!)

I've been searching all over the net and this is the only mail list I
could turn up that may have knowledgable people on it. I think I've seen
every linux-wireless site in Google's database but none seem to have
advice for troubleshooting (but everyone says these cards work great for
them...) I've also tried 3com 3CRSHPW796 with 3com's driver and the
amtel dirver, same result with them, the D-LINK DWL-G650, didn't expect
that to work and it didn't. Forget what driver I tried but I'm not
worried about that one. Also tried an SMC 802.11a card using the vt_ar5k
driver but I realize that it seems to be dropped as far as developement,
again, I'm not worried about that. But it seems to me that the 3com card
or the SMC 2635 should work.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Derek Schaible <[email protected]>
CSSI, Inc.



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