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Gentoo-Ed
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 Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: [REOPENED] Can't bring up pcmcia wireless card AT BOOT ONLY |
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Hi. I'm trying to get my pcmcia card to work. I emerged ndiswrapper and installed the drivers for broadcom chipset BCM4306 (rev3). I got this information from lspci.
When i bring up the card with "ifconfig wlan0 up" and do iwlist wlan0 scan it will see my AP. The AP is wep enabled and broadcast enabled. I configured the card with:
| Code: | iwconfig wlan0 key "....-....-....-....-....-....-.."
iwconfig wlan0 essid "ESSID" |
Displaying it with iwconfig will still say ESSID "auto/any" and the Key will be filled in with security mode restricted. The AP is authentication type shared and uses mac filter (the card is listed). It's configured for channel 11.
After doing dhcpcd wlan0 it waits a while then moves the wlan0 back to iwconfig. That output gives:
| Code: | | Warning: driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 18 of wireless extension, while this program supports up to version 17. Some things may be broken ... |
Please give advice
Edit
When I do iwlist channel it said using channel 6. I changed that to 11 with iwconfig wlan0 channel 11. When I do iwlist key it's display the keys. Only the one entered is placed in place 1 and I need it in number 3. It also says transmitting number 1 it needs to be transmitting number 3. How to change this?
Edit 2
I did the following things:
| Code: | iwconfig wlan0 channel nn
iwconfig wlan0 key [1] ....-....-....-....-....-....-..
iwconfig wlan0 key [2] ....-....-....-....-....-....-..
iwconfig wlan0 key [3] ....-....-....-....-....-....-..
iwconfig wlan0 key [4] ....-....-....-....-....-....-..
iwconfig wlan0 commit
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0
ifonfig --> no I got an IP
ping www.google.com
[color=red]unknown host [/color] |
I think I need to set the network device which to use. I just had to wait a few minutes  |
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Gentoo-Ed
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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To get it up at boot I edited the /etc/conf.d/net file and added a link. At boot it now says unable to configure wlan0. This is what I added:
| Code: | modules=( "iwconfig" )
essid_wlan0="ESSID"
channel_wlan0="nn"
config_wlan0=( "dhcp" )
key_ESSID="key" |
To get working when logged in I do these steps:
| Code: | iwconfig wlan0 essid "ESSID"
iwconfig wlan0 channel "nn"
iwconfig wlan0 key [n] "....-...-...-....-....-....-.."
iwconfig wlan0 key [n] (this to set using it)
iwconfig wlan0 commit
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0 |
What do I need to change? |
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