Hi all,

I recently upgraded mdk8.2 to mdk 9.1Beta2. my wireless card(Orinoco Silver) was able to get online with the wireless home network that we have set up with mdk8.2. Ever since i got mdk 9.1Beta2 I have not been able to get online.

Looking at the previous threads I figured that maybe that it was a problem previously encountered. (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eless+card+WEP)
On doing a /sbin/lsmod this is the result.. I do not have
hermes,orinoco or orinoco_cs
THis is output from/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sr_mod 15064 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean)
lp 6720 0 (autoclean)
parport 23808 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
i810_audio 23720 0
soundcore 3652 0 [i810_audio]
ac97_codec 10024 0 [i810_audio]
nfsd 66768 0 (autoclean)
lockd 46864 0 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 63324 0 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
wvlan_cs 23008 1
ds 6824 2 [wvlan_cs]
yenta_socket 10240 2
pcmcia_core 44192 0 [wvlan_cs ds yenta_socket]
ppp_async 7456 0 (unused)
ppp_generic 20060 0 [ppp_async]
slhc 5072 0 [ppp_generic]
af_packet 12968 1 (autoclean)
3c59x 27344 1 (autoclean)
ohci1394 16488 0 (unused)
ieee1394 32396 0 [ohci1394]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 72812 1 (autoclean)
ide-cd 30560 0
cdrom 26976 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 9584 0
scsi_mod 91028 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci 21772 0 (unused)
usbcore 58112 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 6492 0 (autoclean)


My dmesg output after taking the card out is

wvlan_cs: Driver unloaded
wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.6
wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de>
wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth1
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 02 2d 61 6a 62
wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x7001C (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilities : 1-2-1-1-1
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 02 2d 61 6a 62
wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x7001C (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilities : 1-2-1-1-1
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 02 2d 61 6a 62
wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x7001C (vendor 1) - Firmware capabilities : 1-2-1-1-1


I then do a iwconfig eth1
results are

[root@DhaiSurya root]# iwconfig eth1
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 13.
Some things may be broken...

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"default" Nickname:"DhaiSurya"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:40:05:B4:7E:2F
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:5534-3837-38
Power Management:off
Link Quality:12/92 Signal level:-84 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


What could be going wrong??

Another set of queries
We have a wireless home(non-WEP) network setup. and the school(WEP) has a wireless lan setup. Hence we have access to both these networks.
Is there any way by whichh I can choose which WLAN to connect to if both are active at the same time?(*like we can in Windows*)

Thanks,
Saket

Mandrake screwed something up so badly that it's loading the wvlan_cs module, which is so depricated as to be almost useless, especially with any orinoco firmware released in the past year and change. You might want to download the hermes.conf file so it'll use the right module.

Also, how to change settings?

dhcpcd -k eth1(to whack the old connection, assuming you're walking with the laptop live between two Wlans)
ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid nameofnetwork
iwconfig eth1 enc 12312313
dhcpcd eth1

I wouldn't worry about the version mismatch from wireless extensions in the kernel and wireless tools, that's just Mandrake getting their utilities ahead of their kernel. Mine are off by 3 and work fine... well, off by 3,2, and 2 depending on the machine.

The major thing I think is the old WEP bug where with the wvlan_cs module (which your machine may be alright with), a default encryption is set and depending on the difference between your firmware and version 6.04, you might not be able to change it withough hacking it out of /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts

Like I said, it'll be much easier if you download this file:

http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/hermes.conf

and add it to /etc/pcmcia/

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi,
the hermes.conf sure did load the right modules as u mentioned..
1 problem still exists
The school wireless lan requires WEP on login. The way it works while in windows is that even though the signal may be strong enuf, i cannot get online until I authenticate. For authentication I need to invoke a browser window upon which i get the login screen.. after that I can access the network.
windows *magically* sets up the IP.(not sure if IP is set up when a browser is invoked or when the laptop enters the school network)
The school uses the "BlueSocket" authentication software.(if that helps)
Any inputs on how I could authenticate on the school WEP enable Wireless LAN on mdk 9.1

Thanks in advance.
Saket

iwconfig eth1 enc thewepkeyhere

My job, which also happens to be a college, uses the same manuever. Actually, way it handles things is that you set wireless, get an IP from dhcp, but then it won't forward any packets past the gateway until you authenticate through http.

Cheers,

Finegan