Problems configuring ORiNOCO Silver card

Hi,

I know that this is supposed to be easy, but I can't
quite seem to get my WAVELAN Orinoco PC Silver Card
to work. I have dug through archives and tried a
variety of things. I will easily admit, too, that I
am not network savvy.

Here's my configuration:
Familiar 0.3
Laptop connected to Linksys wireless AP/Router
Cable modem plugged in to Linksys -- uses DHCP

Here's what I've tried:
(1) Just plug it in and see what happens...
==> I get the "Operation Failed" message which means
minimally that there's a problem running DHCP.

(2) Edited the following files:
(a) config.opts -- uncommented the line for the Access Point
# Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (AccessPoint mode)...
module "wvlan_cs" opts "station_name=dash2"
# Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (ad-hoc mode)...
#module "wvlan_cs" opts "port_type=3 channel=1 station_name=dash2"

(b) network.opts --
# Use DHCP (via /sbin/dhcpcd, /sbin/dhclient, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n]
    DHCP="y"
    PUMP='y'
    # If you need to explicitly specify a hostname for DHCP requests
    DHCP_HOSTNAME=""
    # Host's IP address, netmask, network address, broadcast address
    IPADDR="192.168.1.101"
    NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
    NETWORK="192.168.1.0"
    BROADCAST="192.168.1.255"
    # Gateway address for static routing
    GATEWAY="192.168.1.1"

(c) wireless.opts -- I commented out the *,*, stuff
and made a few mods to xvlan_cs info. No WEP necessary.

# NOTE : Remove the following four lines to activate the samples below ...
# --------- START SECTION TO REMOVE -----------
# *,*,*,*)
# ;;
# ---------- END SECTION TO REMOVE ------------

# Here are a few examples with a few Wireless LANs supported...

# Lucent Wavelan IEEE
# Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support
*,*,*,00:60:1D:*)
    INFO="Wavelan IEEE example (Lucent default settings)"
    ESSID="linksys"
    MODE="Ad-hoc"
    RATE="11M"
# KEY="s:secu1"

(d) I knew too, that my linksys box was configured to
use channel 6, so I executed:

iwconfig wvlan0 channel 6

(e) I then stopped (/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop) and
started (/etc/init.d/pcmcia start) ... here's what I get:

Starting PCMCIA services: modulesLinux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22
  options: [pm]
SA-1100 PCMCIA (CS release 3.1.22)
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 reset=0
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: finished
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 reset=1
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: finished
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 reset=0
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: finished
cardmgr.
# cardmgr[395]: starting, version is 3.1.20
cardmgr[395]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[395]: Card Services release does not match
cardmgr[395]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[395]: socket 0: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
cardmgr[395]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs station_name=dash2'
wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.4
wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de>
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 reset=0
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: finished
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: socket=0 vcc=50 reset=0
bitsy_pcmcia_configure_socket: finished
wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 42, io 0xf6000000-0xf600003f
wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice wvlan0
wvlan_cs: MAC address on wvlan0 is 00 02 2d 2b 91 f4
cardmgr[395]: executing: './network start wvlan0'
cardmgr[395]: + Operation failed.
cardmgr[395]: + ./network: /sbin/ifuser: not found

Still getting the operation failed...
Here's what I get from the ifconfig and iwconfig commands:
# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3904 Metric:1
          RX packets:307 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:307 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:33776 (32.9 Kb) TX bytes:33776 (32.9 Kb)

wvlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:2B:91:F4
          inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:7776 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:4200 (4.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:42

# iwconfig
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
lo no wireless extensions.

wvlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"dash2"
          Frequency:2.437GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
          Access Point: 00:04:5A:26:5B:5F
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2347 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link quality:43/92 Signal level:-47 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

I would really appreciate any help that anyone can offer.
I know that this can be done since so many others have
already made it work.

Thanks!

Ellen Dash
edash_dgi@hotmail.com

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Received on Tue May 22 06:44:24 2001