Setting up Wireless NIC on bootup.
Hello all,
I have just installed Slackware 8.1 on my Toshiba laptop. I have installed a Netgear MA401 wireless PCMCIA NIC and have got it connecting in to my home network. Couple of things with it though. Firstly, to get it running from boot up I have to:
iwconfig eth0 essid HomeNetwork
and then
dhcpcp eth0
How do I set things so that all this is done automatically??
Secondly, and after looking through the post here, probably trickier, when it's working it is very slow, about 10KBytes/sec. Sometimes transfers start out at 150-200KBytes/sec and then after a few seconds slow right down.
here is the relevant extract from dmesg:
hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson
<hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson
<hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.03
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:09:5B:24:DC:01
eth0: Station name "Prism I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth0: Channel out of range (0)!
eth0: Channel out of range (0)!
eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped.
eth0: Tx error, status 4 (FID=0127)
output of ifconfig eth0:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:24:DC:01
inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST
MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1022 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:5
TX packets:1400 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:658834 (643.3 Kb) TX bytes:258369
(252.3 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
output of iwconfig eth0:
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"HomeNetwork"
Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467GHz Access
Point: 00:06:AB:00:5E:E6
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment
thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:74/92 Signal level:-2 dBm
Noise level:-138 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx
invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0
Missed beacon:0
Also, it may not be relevant but I've never had any beeps relating to the detection of the card. Sound is known to be working ok.
Thanks
Kevin.
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