2wire wireless agere card work in Linux?
 

I have been searching to find drivers for my 2wire agere systems wireless network card. I contacted 2wire to ask about the card and the replied, "It was based off of the Agere/Orinoco Silver/Gold wireless card. It is slightly different but you may be able to get it working in Linux using those drivers"

I have tried using the Orinoco driver. When my laptop boots (Slack 9.1, 2.6 kernel) it recognizes the card, its LED lights up for power and network, obtains an IP, and then the LED lights go dark just before the login prompt.

My first question is, has anyone gotten this particular card working in linux? If so, does my problem sound familiar or are there any suggestions?

Thanks,
radabasp

I'm assuming that the network interface no longer works once it's booted? What's the output of running iwconfig just after login? oh, and the output of ifconfig might help as well.

Hi thanks for your reply. After 'ifconfig eth0 up' I get the following output with the respective commands:

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:8D:2B:D7
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:7 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


iwconfig

eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/0
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/0 Signal level:-122 dBm Noise level:-122 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0



Does this indicate anything? I don't see an IP address and my Access Point is definitely not 44:44:44:44:44:44. I can provide any information you think would be helpful. I just want to get wireless working. Its the last think for me to configure.

Thanks!

You might need to set the ESSID manually, you can see it in the first line of the iwconfig output as "", meaning nothing or any. I'm only new to wireless linux stuff but my netgear WG511 on my laptop gets an ESSID corectly whenever it's in range of an AP and put in Managed mode.

But anyway try setting the ESSID manually, it probably woulden't hurt to make sure the channel is set correcly as well (iwconfig eth0 channel <x>).

2wire wireless
 

that card will work fine in linux and is already working
u need to use the wireless tools commands to set it up for your access point
iwconfig eth0 essid (YOUR AP)
iwconfig eth0 key (WEP KEY)
dhcpcd eth0

Re: 2wire card
 

Well last night I found that the 2wire card does actually work. Booted up into Linux and was determined to finally square this small problem away. ran ifconfig and to my surprise I was online! I didn't do a thing. A closer look showed me that I had accessed someone elses network, a neighbor. I have spoken with my neighbor about turning encryption on (default off for Road Runner?)

The problem with my wireless network apparently involves setting the card up for the 64 bit WEP encryption.

Thanks to all who helped me!
R

Help! I don't want to use Windoze.
 

Last post was back on Oct 2003, under http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=80259 I could not figure out how to get my 2wire pcmcia card to work under Linux, still can't. Sence Oct, I have reinstalled winxp. . . yuck. I do like the Linux OS. But I don't understand the lang. I am common user.

What wierless card did you use or have in your machine? I have the 2wire portal 1000sw, with what says on the back of the wireless pcmcia card, it's from Agere Systems PC24E-11-FC/R. I did a search on this card and found that it is the same as the Lucent Orinoco gold cards. Here is a link to a site selling the card I got with the 2wire 1000sw from SBC. www.pcliquidations.com/item.asp?id=1216

Is this the same card you used? I heard how well Linux was secure and stable, so i wanted to try it out on my laptop, it works well except the card. I can't get it to work. I want to instal Linux on both of my machines one is a basic file server to my laptop. Windoze is what I have always used, it auto configs almost everything, I been spoiled in that way. I have Mandrake 9.1 and I just down loaded the .iso image of KNOPPIX V 3.4 which one is better to start out with? I cant get the card to work under any of the two. What to do? What to do? :confused: :scratch:



thanks

2Wire Card
 

This is the exact same card I use. If you are not using a newer kernel you may have to recompile to a new one in order for it to work. I'll look up the details and get back to you (my laptop isn't with me right now). If you haven't already looked, checkout iwconfig wireless networking tools.

help trying to get gui on mandrake 10
 

I have installed disk 1 off a bootable floopy becuse my bios wont alow me to chane my boot sequenced to cd rom anyways after the first disk finnish installing it reboots an loads the kernal and i havent do the other two disk how do i get to the gui of it can someone help