Fedora3 on Thinkpad A31 2652Q5U

linus24 · 12-21-2004, 04:07 PM

**EDIT** It works now, see below.

Although I have read many great and useful posts and articles while solving this one and
am close, I'm still stuck. I think by now...it is something silly that I am missing, but have
been at it too long and am fried. A fresh perspective could be what I need.

PROBLEM:
I can ping local machines(by name and IP), but nothing outside on the internet(by name or IP) with my wireless(eth1) interface. eth0(wired) works fine.
Turned off encryption on Linksys BEFW11S4 for troubleshooting.

The wireless connection has operated with another OS.
I did:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
/sbin/route add default gw <GW ADDRESS>
...which allows me to ping the local machines with eth1.

Following are some details that may help you help me.
Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions.

HARDWARE INFO:
(and dmesg)

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Code:

dmesg:

e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.27-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd0200000, irq 11, MAC addr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX *<--edit*
orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_pci 0.13e (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
orinoco_pci: Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:02:02.0, mem:0xF8000000 to 0xF8000FFF -> 0x22888000, irq:11
Reset done.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................;
Clear Reset..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................;
pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - FFFC185D - FFFC1669
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  
eth1: Station name "Prism  I"
eth1: ready
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64

[root@ibm 2.6.9-1.667]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
[root@ibm 2.6.9-1.667]#

[root@ibm 2.6.9-1.667]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"linux"  Nickname:"ibm"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=14/92  Signal level=143/153  Noise level=112/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:39  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

[root@ibm 2.6.9-1.667]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: #######################/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:5809863 (5.5 MiB)  TX bytes:879322 (858.7 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          inet addr:192.168.1.11  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: #######################/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:11446 (11.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1188 (1.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 Memory:f8000000-f8000fff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1763784 (1.6 MiB)  TX bytes:1763784 (1.6 MiB)

lsmod:

orinoco_pci             7245  0
orinoco                47053  1 orinoco_pci
hermes                  7617  2 orinoco_pci,orinoco
e100                   39364  0
mii                     4673  1 e100

Did I forget to add anything?
It seems that I have a wireless connection working, but have misconfigured something else. All of the DNS addresses are set the same as eth0(which works).

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linus24 · 12-22-2004, 01:34 AM

I just booted with a Ubuntu live cd which made the wireless card eth0
and I was on the internet with wireless no problem(after some setup)

That means I am doing something wrong in the configuration for the
Fedora installation, but I can't find it.

How do I make eth1 connect to the internet through the gw...
In addition to entering dns and gw info just as it is for eth0.

??

linus24 · 12-22-2004, 10:21 AM

I set eth0 onboot=no and it works now, but I am trying to find a nice way to switch back and forth.

This is the way I am doing it now...let me know if you have a better way.

1. Set eth0 (wired) to NOT start on boot.
2. Set eth1 (wireless) to start on boot.
- Now I am using the wireless connection.
3. Switch to eth0 (wired), if I want to...by:
-Turning off eth1. /sbin/ifdown eth1
-Turning on eth0. /sbin/ifup eth0
-Did this(a) so I don't have to type all that crap every time:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
a. vi /sbin/goeth0
insert the above down and up commands and save
- "i" to insert, type the commands, typa a " : " (appears at the bottom of the screen)
--then type "wq" to wite and quit(no quotes, just wq) and hit enter.

chmod u+x /sbin/goeth0 (so root can exec it)
then just do: #/sbin/./goeth0 and the wired network is ready and able
-----------------------------------------------------------end a
4. If I want to go back I just do this:
-#/sbin/service network restart
and the wireless is fired up and able and the wired(eth0) is off.

nice talkin' to ya