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Old 08-20-2003, 08:46 PM   #1
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Help an eager newb w/ instal of Orinoco card


Aloha-
Can someone please direct me to a "how to" for installing an orinoco silver card. I am using libranet, a Debian based distro, and I have tried using google/linux but have not found an answer. If someone could help I would be very thankfull.
Mahalo Nui Loa
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Old 08-20-2003, 10:56 PM   #2
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How old of a libranet?

When the card is inserted, does the machine beep twice? If so, what's the output of /sbin/lsmod

If wvlan_cs is listed, check "dmesg" There should be a registration of the device of the card, at the end, as eth0 or wvlan0

If orinoco_cs is listed, then its eth0...

Then try:

iwconfig eth0 (or wvlan0)

And then check the man page on iwconfig to fiddle with its settings...

Sorry, that would have been more in depth, I'm leaving work right now, post back where you get stuck.

Cheers,

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Old 08-21-2003, 12:54 AM   #3
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Many Mahalo's for your help finegan-
I am using Libranet 2.8 and when I insert the card I get no beeps and the lights on the card are off. During the install they did light up. I checked dmesg and it is not listed. Not really a surprise ;-)

The output of $ iwconfig eth0
Warning: Driver for device eth0 has been compiled with version 14 of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15. Some things may be broken...

eth0 IEEE 802.11-Ds ESSID:" " Nickname:"Hermes I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 00:...
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off

I did read the man pages for iwconfig but since it seems there is no point to try and configure something that is not even detected.
Thanks again for all your help-
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Old 08-21-2003, 02:56 AM   #4
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Hey, okay, the kid is there. You're laptop's BIOS speaker probably just isn't configured right (or turned off by Libranet... dunno, doesn't matter). When pcmcia support gets loaded there's typically one beep, a second, matching beep for the card driver being loaded, and a different second tone, a bonk... if it can't load a driver. Its great for debugging, useless in this case. Okay, the card configuration. After the first, the lights should pop on, one of them at least, the lower of the two:

ifconfig eth0 up (that'll bring up the device)
iwconfig eth0 essid nameofnetwork (that'll assign the network name)
iwconfig eth0 enc 1234567890 (that'll set a wireless key, a40/64 bit key, the silver can't handle a 104/128 bit key.)
dhcpcd eth0 (that should grap an IP from the router)

Debian, default install... I don't think installs dhcpcd, you can apt-get it if I remember right, I'm also not familiar with the kernel you've got or what era of Debian it is that Libranet 2.8 is based on... if dhcpcd doesn't work, the command:

pump

should, I hope.

Post back if you get stuck.

Cheers,

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Old 08-21-2003, 04:17 PM   #5
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Finegan

It worked !!! Thanks for your help. If you ever get to Maui I will buy you a drink. Now if I can just get it to accept my wep key. but don't fear I read my man pages and will get that one sorted out myself.
Mahalo and keep helping people because it will come back to you,
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