Knoppix WLAN issue

hmeyer · 09-29-2004, 05:07 AM

Hello,

I'm running a HD-install of Knoppix 3.6 on a pretty old Laptop (a Siemens 266MHz Machine), and try to get WLAN running with a Corega PCCL-11 (Prism 3.0 chipset) PCMCIA-Card.
I want to connect to the net via my netgear fm314p router, which is running fine (and can be accessed from WinXP via WLAN nicely).
I first tried to use the prism2_cs module, but it didn't work.

I've now configured around a bit (see below), and have a situation, where my wlan sometimes works - I can ping a lot of hosts around the world with good ping-times (but icmp_seq is not continuiosly - there are hops of 10-20).
But I can't really have traffic: web browsing or apt-get install didn't work. And sometimes even the pings don't work.
What is wrong here?

I created an entry in /etc/pcmcia/config like:

Code:

 
card "Corega PCCL-11 WLAN PCMCIA"
    version "corega","WL PCCL-11","ISL37300P","RevA"
    minfid   0xc00f, 0x0000
    bind "orinoco_cs"

my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:

Code:

 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    adress 192.168.0.127
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.0.0
    broadcast 192.168.0.255
    gateway 192.168.0.1
    wireless_essid Bacterioides
    wireless_mode managed

my /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts looks like:

Code:

 
case "$ADRESS" in
*,*,*,00:09:41:1B:E7:90)
    ESSID="Bacterioides"
    MODE="Managed"
    CHANNEL="4"
    KEY="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
    RATE="11M"
esac

When I boot up, dmesg says:

Code:

 
orinoco 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,  Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,  Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
eth0: Hardware identity 801b:0000:0001:0000
eth0: Station identity 001f:0004:0001:0003
eth0: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.3.4
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC adress 00:09:41:1B:E7:90
eth0: Station name "Prism I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 0, io 0x100-0x13f

this looks good....and 4 lines later:

Code:

 
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
hermes @ IO 0x100: Timeout waiting for command 0x0002 completition
eth0: Error -110 disabling MAC port

iwconfig now says:

Code:

 
lo       no wireless extensions
eth0   IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Bacterioides" Nickname:"murkel"
          Mode: Managed   Frequency:2.427GHz  Access Point: 00:09:5B:2C:67:E6
          Bit Rate=11Mb/s  Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=6/92   Signal level=140/152   Noise level=114/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0   Rx invalid crypt:0   Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0   Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ifconfig only lists lo

no I try

Code:

 
ifup eth0

ifconfig now lists:

Code:

 
eth0	Protokoll:Ethernet	Hardware Adresse 00:09:41:1B:E7:90
	inet Adresse:192.168.0.127	Bcast:192.168.0.255	Maske:255.255.255.0
	UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500	Metric:1
	RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	Kollisionen:0 Senderwarteschlangenlänge:1000
	RX bytes:185 (185.0 b)	TX bytes:396 (396.0 b)
	Interrupt:0 Basisadresse:0x100

Please help me!
Thanks a lot.

Henning