Re: Getting wireless card working under RH9

Anybody ever got SOHO cable free wireless to work under red hat???  I have a
internet blaster from SOHO, and the PCMCIA card to go with it.  I have never
got it to work with linux.  It is five years old and is 802.11a. (or b or
something)

Mike


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]  On
Behalf Of Clint A Brubakken
Sent:	Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:18 PM
To:	[email protected]
Subject:	[linux-help] Getting wireless card working under RH9

I picked up a pcmicia belkin f5d6020 ver 1, a prism 2 wireless card.
I d/l the rpm for wlan :
kernel-wlan-ng-pcmcia-0.2.0-7
kernel-wlan-ng-modules-rh9.18-0.2.0-7
kernel-wlan-ng-0.2.0-7

and have configured the /etc/wlan/wlan.conf, wlancfg-SSID
when I put the card in (and restart pcmcia, as there is some problem
with the hot plug). I get a blinking light on the card, and I see

the errors:

Jul 14 17:13:23 dhcp-164 kernel: linkstatus=ASSOCFAIL (unhandled)
Jul 14 17:13:27 dhcp-164 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Jul 14 17:13:27 dhcp-164 kernel: p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx
attempt prior to association, frame dropped.

I take this to mean I'm not getting associated with the access point,
but the wep key and ssid is correct.

I tried with my wireless at home, with this the wlancfg-cheezland
configuration, the only difference being using a password, 128 bit wep
generated and AuthType="opensystem".

the light on the card was study, and in the logs I saw

Jul 14 23:46:05 localhost kernel: linkstatus=CONNECTED
Jul 14 23:46:09 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Jul 14 23:47:10 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.

so it looks like it was connected but it didn't like how I was asking
for an ip, but I can get an ip wired from the same accesspoint under
linux.

After I had been messing with this my friend showed my the wireless
configiration tool under redhat 9 that work out of the box with the
orinoco driver for him  with my card, but as I installed the other it
didn't work on mine.

So what might be going wrong, there isn't a lot of documentation on the
wlan site, on what various options are for, I thought I need the
shared-key authtype, but I'm not sure.

Or should I uninstall all the wlan stuff and use the default rh9
configuration?





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-- Type: text/x-sh
-- File: wlan.conf


-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
-- File: wlancfg-linksys

#=======USER MIB SETTINGS=============================
# You can add the assignments for various MIB items
#  of your choosing to this variable, separated by
#  whitespace.  The wlan-ng script will then set each one.
# Just uncomment the variable and set the assignments
#  the way you want them.

#USER_MIBS="p2CnfRoamingMode=1 p2CnfShortPreamble=mixed"

#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP.  Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=true     # true|false
lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=true     # true|false
dot11PrivacyInvoked=false	# true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0
dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true	# true|false, in AP this means WEP is required.

# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
#  keys (just a convenience)
#PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen	# nwepgen, Neesus compatible
#PRIV_KEY128=false		# keylength to generate
#PRIV_GENSTR=""

# or set them explicitly.  Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0=a1:b2:c3:d4:f5	# format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx   or
dot11WEPDefaultKey1=		#         xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
dot11WEPDefaultKey2=		#  e.g.   01:20:03:40:05   or
dot11WEPDefaultKey3=		#         01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c:0d
#=======SELECT STATION MODE===================
IS_ADHOC=n 			# y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure

#======= INFRASTRUCTURE STATION  ===================
# What kind of authentication?
AuthType="sharedkey"		# opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)

#======= ADHOC STATION ============================
#BCNINT=100			# Beacon interval (in Kus)
#CHANNEL=6			# DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends
				#   on regulatory domain)
#BASICRATES="2 4"		# Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s)
#OPRATES="2 4 11 22"		# Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s)



-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
-- File: wlancfg-cheezland

#=======USER MIB SETTINGS=============================
# You can add the assignments for various MIB items
#  of your choosing to this variable, separated by
#  whitespace.  The wlan-ng script will then set each one.
# Just uncomment the variable and set the assignments
#  the way you want them.

#USER_MIBS="p2CnfRoamingMode=1 p2CnfShortPreamble=mixed"

#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP.  Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=false     # true|false
lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=false     # true|false
dot11PrivacyInvoked=false	# true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0		# 0|1|2|3
dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true	# true|false, in AP this means WEP is required.

# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
#  keys (just a convenience)
PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen	# nwepgen, Neesus compatible
PRIV_KEY128=true		# keylength to generate
PRIV_GENSTR="passkey"

# or set them explicitly.  Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0=		# format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx   or
dot11WEPDefaultKey1=		#         xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
dot11WEPDefaultKey2=		#  e.g.   01:20:03:40:05   or
dot11WEPDefaultKey3=		#         01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:0c:0d
#=======SELECT STATION MODE===================
IS_ADHOC=n 			# y|n, y - adhoc, n - infrastructure

#======= INFRASTRUCTURE STATION  ===================
# What kind of authentication?
AuthType="opensystem"		# opensystem | sharedkey (requires WEP)

#======= ADHOC STATION ============================
BCNINT=100			# Beacon interval (in Kus)
CHANNEL=6			# DS channel for BSS (1-14, depends
				#   on regulatory domain)
BASICRATES="2 4"		# Rates for mgmt&ctl frames (in 500Kb/s)
OPRATES="2 4 11 22"		# Supported rates in BSS (in 500Kb/s)



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