Hi there. I feel i'm most of the way there - i'm hoping someone can help me the rest of the way.

It seems i'm stuck on getting an IP address for my wlan0 interface - although i doubt it's the fault of the dhcp server (a belkin router). it serves the several other computers (all osx machines) consistantly and without fail.

Actually I've tried manually setting the IP address, gw, etc for the interface, but I can't ping out. I was a sysadmin in a past life - so i'm fairly sure there wasn't a problem choosing those manual settings.


the problem child is running slackware 11 - stock 2.4.33 kernel. the card is a linksys WPC11v4. i've compiled and manually installed the realtek8180 modules form sourceforge.


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blacky:~$ lspci
[...]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8180L 802.11b MAC (rev 20)
blacky:~$



blacky:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
arc4 620 1 (autoclean)
ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180 2320 1 (autoclean)
crc32 2880 0 (autoclean) [ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180]
uhci 23804 0 (unused)
mii 2304 0 [eepro100]
r8180 38828 1
ieee80211-r8180 23164 0 [r8180]
ieee80211_crypt-r8180 1940 0 [ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180 ieee80211-r8180]
ds 6612 2
yenta_socket 10532 2
pcmcia_core 39492 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ide-scsi 9392 0
[...]
blacky:~$

blacky:~# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"home-net"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: MAC:OF:MY:AIRPORT
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
Retry:on Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:LONG-HEX-KEY-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:restricted
Link Quality:99/100 Signal level:-31 dBm Noise level:-255 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


[i set the key with:

iwconfig wlan0 key "s:password"]

blacky:~# iwlist wlan0 enc
wlan0 0 keys available :
Current Transmit Key: [1]
Security mode:restricted


blacky:~# iwlist wlan0 enc
wlan0 0 keys available :
Current Transmit Key: [1]
Security mode:restricted

blacky:~#

I should also mention the airports are using 128WEP.

Can anyone give me a pointer of where I should be looking next? Or something I missed?

Thanks Much!

-fil

I just tried intentionally setting an incorrect key with
iwconfig wlan0 key "s:wrongpassword" - and i haven't seen anything
different. the card still seems to be accociating? with the nearest airport base station. iwconfig wlan0 still reports:
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"mynet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: MY:AIRPORT:MAC:ADDRESS
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
Retryn Fragment thrff
Encryption key:LONG-HEX-KEY-0000-0000-0000-00 Security mode:restricted
Link Quality=93/100 Signal level=-52 dBm Noise level=-249 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


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In case anyone else is following this thread, i had much better luck with ndiswrapper and the winxp driver for the card. everything seems to work, though inconsistantly, except encryption right now, which i'm going to take to another thread.

-fil