ifup wlan0 automatically

Steffen · 07-24-2005, 07:49 AM

Hello,

i got my wlan usb adapter to work at last. But the internet connection doesn't get up automaticly. After restart i have to execute "ifup wlan0", then it works. dmesg shows only

Code:

wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

my /etc/network/interfaces:

Code:

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The wireless network interface   
auto wlan0
    iface wlan0 inet static
        address 192.168.178.2
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	gateway 192.168.178.1
	wireless_key s:XXXXXXXXXXXX open
	wireless_essid fritznetz
	channel 6

Thanks for your help,
Steffen

Sharaz · 07-24-2005, 08:14 AM

i would take a look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts folder. there are files there that tell your system whether to start with if's up or down. my file for ifcfg-eth0 looks like this:

Code:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
HWADDR=00:02:B3:24:0E:EA
IPADDR=192.168.125.50
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet

i believe the ONBOOT is the one you'll want to adjust.

Steffen · 07-24-2005, 08:41 AM

I'm have debian (2.6.8) and there is no dir /etc/sysconfig.
The interfaces lo and etho are getting up corectly, only wlan0 is ignored.

gammi0025 · 07-25-2005, 04:44 PM

Ok Heres goes !
I,m a newbie to linux I,ve been trying to get my wireless networking card to work . I,ve installed the windows driver with ndiswrapper v1.2 he's what dmesg says

Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005

DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 163836 pages, LIFO batch:16

ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/28/2003, 3.40.25.3) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ndiswrapper: using irq 10
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:30:bd:fe:6a:c0 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
Capability LSM initialized
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Adding 3148700k swap on /dev/hdb1. Priority:42 extents:1
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c033d600(lo)
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones

eth0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
nvidia: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7167 Fri Feb 25 09:08:22 PST 2005

eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
load_module: err 0xffffffef (dont worry)
eth0: Media Link Off
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000040
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
eth0: Media Link Off
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000000
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
eth0: Media Link Off
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
eth0: Media Link Off
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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>)
eth0: Media Link Off
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/28/2003, 3.40.25.3) loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ndiswrapper: using irq 10
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:30:bd:fe:6a:c0 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Battleburg:/ #

so I think my driver gets loaded but i get this error in iwconfig

Battleburg:/ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Untitled" Nickname:"Battleburg"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:E0:98:4E:85:1C
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key

ff
Power Management

ff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:62 Invalid misc:1281 Missed beacon:0

Battleburg:/ #

what is this wireless extensions ? and how can i upgrade mine to version 18?
this is what ifconfig says

Battleburg:/ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:ED:A6:EE
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:6eff:feed:a6ee/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1626 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:618967 (604.4 Kb) TX bytes:182128 (177.8 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9800

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:425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:32290 (31.5 Kb) TX bytes:32290 (31.5 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:FE:6A:C0
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:bdff:fefe:6ac0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3914 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3894151 (3.7 Mb) TX bytes:598538 (584.5 Kb)
Memory:cc800000-cc801fff

so I get an ip address and i can ping my router ?

Battleburg:/ # arping -I wlan0 192.168.1.254
ARPING 192.168.1.254 from 192.168.1.1 wlan0
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.905ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.461ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.572ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.459ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.521ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.455ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.461ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.440ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.514ms
Unicast reply from 192.168.1.254 [00:E0:98:4E:85:1C] 2.609ms
Sent 10 probes (1 broadcast(s))
Received 10 response(s)
and i can ping google

ping www.google.co.uk
PING www.l.google.com (66.102.9.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=34.4 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=34.8 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=33.7 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=35.1 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=6 ttl=243 time=30.0 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=7 ttl=243 time=28.3 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=8 ttl=243 time=30.2 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.147: icmp_seq=9 ttl=243 time=29.5 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 8 received, 11% packet loss, time 8005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.366/32.051/35.174/2.575 ms

but when i reboot it goes off I can't get the net
how do I add the module so it starts when i reboot in suse 9.3
sorry for the long post i,ve tried to add stuff to see if you guys can help me

cheers

gammi0025 · 07-26-2005, 04:45 PM

ok I can ping my router and can get an ip address when i boot and type ifconfig wlan0 up
but i cant get the internet this must be a router problem surly but it works fine in windose xpsp2
it was working but since i rebooted and taken my pc downstairs
its gone kaput??
can anyone help me :-(
please

gammi0025 · 07-28-2005, 06:28 AM

I have figure this out my dns settings were not set
so i set these from the router settings and it know works fine
i am trying to get the wlan0 to work from boot aswell in Suse9.3
I am trying a script in rc.local i,ll let you know how i get on!