Hello, I have a wireless netgear router and a wireless MA311 PCI card. I tried to get the MA311 (prism2 chip) to work under SuSE 8.2, but the DHCP protocol can't obtain an IP address. I configured the router so that there is no encryption (for now) and no MAC-restrictions. I'm using orinoco_pci drivers. I searched the boards for several hours before posting and tried all what was suggested and it's 3:00 am now and I still can't ping!
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"MONTAG" Nickname:"Astrolab"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:51:82:7C
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:32/92 Signal level:-70 dBm Noise level:-139 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:68:4B:09
inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe68:4b09/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:114 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000 Memory:ee010000-ee010fff
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:08.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
That was the DHCP setup. KDE's KWiFiManager showed a connection and the access point, but there was no IP address.
I tried to set a manual arbitrary IP (192.168.0.5) and then set the default gateway in YaST2 to 192.168.0.1 (which is the default gateway my XP laptop is also using) and I added a couple of name servers to the list, but that didn't help (on ping it says Destination Host Unreachable). I can't even ping the router 192.168.0.1 (which I can do on my XP laptop). I assumed that the mode is 'managed'.
Here is my boot log
Aug 1 21:55:20 linux kernel: hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Aug 1 21:55:20 linux kernel: orinoco.c 0.13b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: orinoco_pci.c 0.13b (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>)
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 00:08.0, mem:0xEE010000 to 0xEE010FFF -> 0xd87ee000, irq:11
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: Reset done................................................................................................ .................................................................................................... ................................................;
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: Clear Reset............................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... ......;
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - 430B9 - 43087
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: MAC address 00:09:5B:68:4B:09
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: Station name "Prism I"
Aug 1 21:55:21 linux kernel: eth0: ready
Aug 1 21:55:29 linux /etc/hotplug/net.agent[2276]: No HW description found ... exiting
Aug 1 21:55:32 linux kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Aug 1 21:58:25 linux init: Re-reading inittab
Aug 1 21:58:43 linux kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Aug 1 21:58:43 linux kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Aug 1 21:58:43 linux kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Aug 1 21:58:43 linux kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Aug 1 21:58:54 linux kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
Aug 1 21:59:04 linux init: Entering runlevel: 5
Aug 1 21:59:05 linux kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Aug 1 21:59:05 linux kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Aug 1 21:59:06 linux exiting on signal 15
Aug 1 21:59:06 linux syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Aug 1 21:59:08 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[6032]: loaded HCD: ehci-hcd
Aug 1 21:59:08 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[6032]: loaded HCD: usb-uhci
Aug 1 21:59:08 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[6032]: loaded HCD: ehci-hcd
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.20-4GB-athlon
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: Loaded 20849 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.20-4GB-athlon.
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.20.
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: Loaded 930 symbols from 34 modules.
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Aug 1 21:59:11 linux kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Aug 1 21:59:17 linux sshd[6435]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Aug 1 21:59:21 linux /usr/sbin/cron[6735]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Aug 1 21:59:24 linux kernel: mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x2000000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x1000000
Aug 1 21:59:24 linux kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Aug 1 21:59:42 linux kdm[6919]: pam_unix2: session started for user slovin, service xdm
Aug 1 21:59:42 linux resmgr[6287]: accepted connection from user root
Aug 1 21:59:42 linux resmgr[6287]: disconnect from root
Aug 1 22:02:13 linux su: (to root) slovin on /dev/pts/1
Aug 1 22:02:13 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:03:15 linux su: (to root) slovin on /dev/pts/3
Aug 1 22:03:15 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:03:15 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:03:16 linux su: (to root) slovin on /dev/pts/3
Aug 1 22:03:16 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:09:24 linux dhcpcd[2288]: terminating on signal 15
Aug 1 22:09:24 linux modify_resolvconf: no matching backup found, left everything alone
Aug 1 22:09:40 linux kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Aug 1 22:10:31 linux su: (to root) slovin on /dev/pts/5
Aug 1 22:10:31 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:10:31 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:10:32 linux su: (to root) slovin on /dev/pts/5
Aug 1 22:10:32 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:11:05 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su
Aug 1 22:12:46 linux kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Aug 1 22:24:16 linux dhcpcd[8151]: terminating on signal 15
Aug 1 22:24:17 linux modify_resolvconf: no matching backup found, left everything alone
Aug 1 22:26:01 linux ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig eth0 mode Automatic' returned
Aug 1 22:26:01 linux ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
Aug 1 22:26:01 linux ifup-wireless: SET failed on device eth0 ; Invalid argument.
Aug 1 22:26:11 linux kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Any help highly appreciated.
