wireless config?

Hi gang,

I'm still banging my head on this problem ... trying to get my iPAQ
(Familiar .3 w/Lucent Orinooco Silver) card to talk to my Linksys wireless
AP/Router. The AP/Router is in turn connected to a cable modem (yes,
RoadRunner). I know that I'm close... iwconfig shows that it is able to get
the MAC address of the AP, but when I try to ping the AP, I get nothing
back. The lights on the card flash and seem to sync up with lights on the
AP, but still no reply from the AP. (Pinging AP does work from a wired
laptop; wireless from laptop also works via Windows.)

I've tried various configurations -- I'd be happy to get this working in
Infrastructure mode (or ad-hoc). I've seemed to have gotten closer with a
static IP address, rather than using DHCP. Below are file snippets and
output from the iPAQ in case anyone is able to provide some clues!

Thanks so much for any help you can send my way!

I do get the following error, but I thought I had read in the archives that
it is not a problem. Is this still true?

cardmgr[685]: + ./network: /sbin/ifuser: not found

Ellen Dash
edash_dgi_at_hotmail.com

------------ output from iPAQ --------

# /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
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[685]: starting, version is 3.1.20
cardmgr[685]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[685]: Card Services release does not match
cardmgr[685]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[685]: socket 0: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
cardmgr[685]: executing: 'modprobe wvlan_cs port_type=1
network_name=linksys channel=6 station_na'wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA
driver v1.0.4
wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy_at_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[685]: executing: './network start wvlan0'
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
cardmgr[685]: + ./network: /sbin/ifuser: not found

# ping -n 192.168.1.1 ==> [THIS IS THE IP ADDRESS OF MY AP/ROUTER]
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
37 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
#
# 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:343 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:343 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:38388 (37.4 Kb) TX bytes:38388 (37.4 Kb)

wvlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:2B:91:F4
          inet addr:192.168.1.50 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:2652 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2652 (2.5 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:"familiar"
          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:55/92 Signal level:-34 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0
wvlan0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0
wvlan0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0
wvlan0

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
wvlan0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
wvlan0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0
wvlan0

---------------iPAQ config file contents -----------

Just listing the important parts ...

network.opts (only showing the parts that I've modified.)

    # Use BOOTP (via /sbin/bootpc, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n]
    BOOTP="n"
    # Use DHCP (via /sbin/dhcpcd, /sbin/dhclient, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n]
    DHCP="n"
    PUMP='n'
    # If you need to explicitly specify a hostname for DHCP requests
    DHCP_HOSTNAME=""
    # Host's IP address, netmask, network address, broadcast address
    IPADDR="192.168.1.50"
    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"
    # Things to add to /etc/resolv.conf for this interface
    DOMAIN=""
    SEARCH=""
    DNS_1="192.168.1.1"
    DNS_2=""
    DNS_3=""

config.opts
# Options for WaveLAN/IEEE driver (AccessPoint mode)...
module "wvlan_cs" opts "port_type=1 network_name=linksys channel=6
station_name=dash2"

(is there any reason to exclude other irq ports?)

wireless.opts

case "$ADDRESS" in

# Lucent Wavelan IEEE
# Note : wvlan_cs driver only, and version 1.0.4+ for encryption support

*,*,*,00:02:2D:*)
    INFO="iPAQ"
    ESSID="linksys"
    MODE="Managed"
    RATE="11M"
# KEY="s:secu1"
# To set all four keys, use :
# KEY="s:secu1 [1] key s:secu2 [2] key s:secu3 [3] key s:secu4 [4] key
[1]"
    ;;

esac

Contents of /etc/resolv.conf

# wvlan0 begin
nameserver 192.168.1.1
# wvlan0 end

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Received on Fri Jun 01 2001 - 12:43:06 EDT