WiFi setup & FC2
Morgan Read
mstuff at pl.net
Wed Aug 18 02:15:13 UTC 2004
Sorry, please reply to new thread. Didn't mean to tag on.
Regards,
M
Morgan Read wrote:
> Can someone please bring me some sanity...
>
> I have pcmcia wifi card with a prism 3 chipset - Allied Telesyn
> AT-WCL452 (Intersil firmware apparently).
>
> Running fc2 kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
>
> I installed this and confidently re-booted following advice that the
> prism chipsets were well supported.
>
> Nothing.
>
> I went through the set-up process in system-config-network but the card
> wasn't there:(
>
> I googled and found that the driver de jour for prism was the hostap,
> not the orinoco that comes installed.
>
> I installed the 0.1.3 rpm (0.2.4 now stable, but no rpms yet). And,
> followed some configuration info I'd found in various places on the net:
> inserted lines -
> "alias wlan0 hostap_cs" in /etc/modules.conf
> "alias wlan0 hostap_cs" in /etc/modprobe.conf
> "card "AT-WCL452"
> version "Allied Telesyn", "AT-WCL452 Wireless PCMCIA Radio", "Ver. 1.00"
> manfid 0xc00f, 0x0000
> bind "hostap_cs""
> in /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf
>
> There seemed to be some success (once I'd worked out I needed to
> reference hostap_cs rather hostap_pci); iwconfig gave sensible
> responses, as did ifconfig. However, system-config-network seemed to be
> playing up and freezing the whole system if I tried to change the mode
> form "master" to "managed", and just touching the "Wireless Settings"
> tab froze the window.
>
> Then card stopped working altogether. So, I discovered a bug and fixed
> it by placing the start script for pcmcia before the network startup.
>
> The card worked again. But, it kept wanting to be Master and not
> Managed (don't we all).
>
> About then I discovered that Allied Telesyn provide the wlan-ng driver
> on their web site, not rpm. And, it didn't compile:( I've successfully
> compiled a soft-modem driver. Also, Open1x Xsupplicant from cvs. But,
> this didn't sing. Any ideas? Something to do with matched sources?
>
> After a bit more googleing I discovered that the orinoco driver provided
> some support for prism. So, why not put what I've learnt into putting
> the systems driver to work: inserted lines -
> "alias wlan0 orinoco_cs" in /etc/modules.conf
> "alias wlan0 orinoco_cs" in /etc/modprobe.conf
> "card "AT-WCL452"
> version "Allied Telesyn", "AT-WCL452 Wireless PCMCIA Radio", "Ver. 1.00"
> manfid 0xc00f, 0x0000
> bind "hostap_cs""
> in /etc/pcmcia/config
>
> Success, well some... Seems to give me partially sensible things with
> iwconfig and ifconfig, but keeps returning eth1 instead of wlan0? Then
> things started getting very strange - loading orinoco_cs for the
> ethernet driver instead of the sis900?? Worked out that if I booted
> with out the card in and then inserted it, I got the right driver on the
> ethernet? But, at some point I have AT-WCL452 under the ethernet and
> orinoco_cs under wireless!!! OK, so it wants eth1 not wlan0? It can
> have it! I changed "alias wlan0 orinoco_cs" (no "" of course) to "alias
> eth1 orinoco_cs". Rebootted, but still the wireless entry in
> system-config-network shows wlan0 (where does it get this from!). And,
> the mode option has gone back to Master! (Of course, it still freezes
> up if I use that Wireless Settings tab.) So, I deleted the wireless
> entry in order to set up a new entry. And what to I get when I go
> through the add new device dialogue... No wireless entry (where once
> the driver or card name showed up thought the wireless dialogue) And!
> If I go through the new ethernet dialogue I have the offerings of: "SiS
> 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet (eth0)" as expected AND "orinoco_cs (eth1)"
> AND!!! "AT-WCL452 (eth0)!
>
> How grey do I have to get?
>
> Can someone help, please?
>
> Thanks all for listening.
> Regards,
> Morgan.
>
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Morgan Read
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