hardware failure?

Smerk · 03-09-2003, 09:54 PM

For some reason my wireless network has failed

I am running RH7.3 on both computers, both with enterasys 802.11 DS cards.

ifconfig & iwconfig report as normal, however when I try to ping from one pc to the other the report says that the destination host is unreachable.

The failure is intermittent, when I booted the pc's 2 days ago the network failed, when I booted yesterday it started working, when I booted today it failed. at all times iwconfig & ifconfig seemed normal.

the drivers I am using are wvlan_cs, I am unable to compile newer drivers, when i try the reports list that I have unresolved sysmbols.

Unfortunately I only have the two cards and the two computers (both laptops)

could it be that one of the cards has suffered hardware failure? if so wouldn't iwconfig or if config report something wrong?

I am at a total loss as to what may be wrong. Help!!

computx · 03-10-2003, 03:26 AM

does running the following command (as root) make the card start running again?
iwpriv eth0 force_reset

Smerk · 03-10-2003, 07:12 AM

well.. the card seems to be running, just not communicating
this is what happens when i do what was suggested:
[root@gilbert root]# iwpriv eth0 force_reset
eth0 no private ioctls.

[root@gilbert root]# ping 192.168.42.1
PING 192.168.42.1 (192.168.42.1) from 192.168.42.8 : 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.42.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% loss, time 2013ms