That means it worked.

The last, orinoco_pci will usually kick errors if it doesn't bind to a card. Bring it up with:

ifconfig ethX up

Then check out the man page on "iwconfig" for the rest of the settings for the card. I hate posting that, I've just typed the exact same lines way too many times. Make a search here for "wireless" and just look at the threads with 3000+ views.

Cheers,

Finegan

it looks like the wireless and the wired LAN card are both on eth0, because when I run ifconfig eth1 up I get an error saying that the device doesn't exist. I found something interesting in my PCI configuration though.

Instead of saying I had an "unknown device" for the wireless card I now see this:

01:05.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
Subsystem: Action Tec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0406
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at 80300000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4k]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

I just thought that this was interesting, because I didn't get this in Red Hat 7.3.

Okay, that's no bueno, with the modules loaded, what does "dmesg" say about the card?

Cheers,

Finegan

Here's the first part of what I get when I do dmesg

Linux version 2.4.18-14 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2
20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f7d0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f7d0000 - 000000000f7e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f7e0000 - 000000000f7e8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f7e8000 - 000000000f800000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f800000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
247MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 63440
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 59344 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1066.492 MHz processor.
Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2119.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 244856k/253760k available (1326k kernel code, 6536k reserved, 999k data,
212k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults>
ramfs: max_pages=30854 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=30854
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1066MHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SER
IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:09.0
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
oprofile: mapping APIC.
oprofile: enabled local APIC. Err code 00000000
oprofile 0.2 loaded, major 254
block: 464 slots per queue, batch=116
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0

the second part
PIIX4: chipset revision 2
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa890-0xa897, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa898-0xa89f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
blk: queue c03c0004, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03c0004, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=2584/240/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 128k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,5): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 228487
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 84066
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 115848
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,5): 3 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:44:31 Sep 4 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa4a0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa4e0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa800, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2
input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [ELECOM ELECOM image sensor mouse with wheel] on usb
2:2.0
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.03
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
ohci1394: pci_module_init failed
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.6-k1
Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation

and the final part
CI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:05.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
Mem:0x80100000 IRQ:11 Speed:100 Mbps Dx:Full
Hardware receive checksums enabled

Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.6
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x380-0x38f 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 196M
agpgart: Detected an Intel 830M Chipset.
agpgart: detected 8060K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0x98000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0x98000000 128MB
[drm] Initialized i830 1.2.0 20011004 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x98000000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.22, 13:45:06 Sep 4 2002
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:09.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x9c00 and 0x9800, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5348 (Analog Devices AD1881A)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), t otal channels = 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x5349:0x4c27 (Unknown)
i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog ready.
[root@register-host-1787 root]#

From that "dmesg", there are no drivers loaded for that card at all. Try to manually modprobe orinoco_cs and orinoco_pci. With these goofy cards, sometimes they're a pci card, sometimes they're treated as pcmcia. Then post the LAST 10-15 lines of dmesg.

Cheers,

Finegan

Here's what I get now, which looks to be good

810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x9c00 and 0x9800, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5348 (Analog Devices AD1881A)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x5349:0x4c27 (Unknown)
i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog ready.
hermes.c: 5 Apr 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.11b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:08.0
Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 01:05.0, mem:0x80300000 to 0x80300FFF -> 0xd08b9000, irq:11
Reset done................................................................................................ .................................................................................................... ......................................................;
Clear Reset............................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .........;
pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - 1F6BF - 1F5BF
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.03
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:20:E0:8D:61:7D
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
[root@register-host-1839 root]#

I configured the wireless card, it shows up on eth1, now I just have to go somewhere where there is wireless, and I'll let you know how it works from there, it appears to detect my card, but since there's no wireless capabilities in my hall I'll have to check it tommorrow at class. Thank you very much for all your help though!

Yeah that looks like its working, weird though that its a PCI device using the card services driver, I've never seen that reset line with the ------------> thing in there before... strange. Good luck finding an AP. If you know anyone else with a wireless device, you can just set both of yours for two IPs on the 192.168.0.X network, set the cards for ad-hoc, and ping one another to make certain it works.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well, I took it with me to the cafeteria and got it all up and running, now if I could migrate my mp3s from an ntfs partition to something linux could read I would be running linux 100%

A final question. Are there any programs that can monitor the wireless connetction, mainly the status of the connection, signal strength and link quality?

GUI wise, the only one I know of is kWiFi, but I've never really used it.

Cheers,

Finegan