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RangerDude
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 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject: How to install Avaya Wireless? |
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Hey all,
I got an Avaya Wireless PC-card for my laptop. I just don't know how to get it to work. I searched the forums but didn't found anything that was noobish enough for my wlan linux experience.
I have started pcmcia. I get a high tone followed by a low tone. I've read somewhere I would need something called orinico_cs.
How do I proceed from now on?  |
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hulk2nd
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RangerDude
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject: Hey |
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Hey,
thanks for your attention.
I already found that thread. I got to starting the pcmcia service, and then I'm stuck.
It's a Wireless card I have, not an ordinary NIC.
I don't know what modules to load or what to put in modules.autoload or in conf.d/net.
I know all my hardware is ok. It works in windows and in knoppix, where it just autodetects my Avaya card and start the required services/modules. |
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hulk2nd
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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ok, then use wlan-ng. i will say it in a few words because i have a date very soon 
ok, first xour kernel: remove any pcmcia support. add wireless lan support (into the kernel, no M) but no other things like drivers or something.
compile
add cardbus and pcmcia to your use flags
emerge pcmcia-cs
emerge linux-wlan-ng
then do a rc-update add pcmcia default
edit your /etc/conf.d/wlan.conf according to your needs (your ssid)
create a wlancfg-X file according to your ssid. the default file is wlancfg-DEFAULT. for example if your ssid is "wireless" then you do cp wlancfg-DEFAULT wlancfg-wireless. then edit the now created ssid wlancfg-X. after that, define the wlan0 device in the net file /etc/init.d/net.
ah yes, maybe you have to do a cp net.eth0 net.wlan0. i dont remember but you will get an error message about that if it would be necessary.
after a reboot the card should work.
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btw, if it won't work, try to set up the wlan0 device as the default gw or try to do a dhcpcd wlan0. the smoothest way if you want your wlan automatically to work if you have no ethernet cable plugged in is to bridge both of the devices. then the normal ethernet connection and the wlan connection behave as one and have only one ip and it is unimport which one you use at the moment because all programs which try to access the internet will check the lan and the wlan device to get a connection and you doesnt have to change the default gateway device each time you want either to use the lan or the wlan connection
good luck!
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greetz,
hulk
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RangerDude
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. I really appreciate your help.
My girlfriend borrowed my laptop. I will get it back in a day or 2. I will report back then. |
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RangerDude
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I did what you said.
I can't start the wlan card. I get this.
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# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Bringing wlan0 up...
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
* Failed to bring wlan0 up [ !! ]
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Pcmcia is started and beeps two light tones. Doesn't that mean the wlan card is loaded ok?
Do you know what might be wrong? |
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hulk2nd
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| try to post the cardmanager lines from the bootup sequence |
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RangerDude
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Hulk,
Sorry for posting so late. I went on vacation, I should have said, but before I knew it, I was in a little village without computers in south France. If you don't wanna answer, I'll understand.
Anyway, the cardmanager lines, do you mean this?
| Code: | # /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
* Starting pcmcia...
cardmgr[6641]: watching 1 sockets |
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dirtboy
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| When you put the card in , do you get any beeps? Check dmesg to see if the card was detected when inserted. |
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Dracnor
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Are you trying to install Gentoo, or do you already have it installed?
The way I got my Avaya card to work was to get rid of CardBus Support [ ] in the kernel and don't load any modules/compile in anything from the Wireless LAN section either. After I rebooted with the new kernel I and then | Code: | | emerge wireless-tools |
(emerge -f pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools if you won't have a connection before you reboot). The idea here is to just let pcmcia-cs (card services) do all the work for you. It loads the modules (so I don't have to put anything in modules.autoload). Make sure that you set /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to your specifications as well (network name, encryption, etc). Also, make sure that it is getting an IP address as well. Set the interface for DHCP or a static. Try doing a cardctl reset (or cardctl eject and then a cardctl insert). You should be able to take a look at to see if there are any wireless interfaces available. If not, take a look at dmesg for any output on as to why it's not showing up.
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RangerDude
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Allright, I did quite some testing, still to no awail. But it's getting closer.
I booted knoppix up and got this during boot
| Code: | PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr.
cardmgr[71]: starting, version is 3.2.2
cardmgr[71]: executing: 'modprobe hermes'
cardmgr[71]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco'
cardmgr[71]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs'
cardmgr[71]: executing: './network start eth0'
cardmgr[71]: + Sample private network setup
cardmgr[71]: + /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
cardmgr[71]: + /sbin/pump -i eth0 > /dev/null |
Thereafter ifconfig gave
| Code: | $ ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2064 (2.0 KiB) TX bytes:1026 (1.0 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:300 (300.0 b) TX bytes: |
That's great, my avaya is broadcasting to find a connection.
Now iwconfig says
| Code: | $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device eth0 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...
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:1/242700000
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
eth1 no wireless extensions.
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I suppose this is allright too.
But now on to gentoo, the matter is a whole other. 
I've got this emerged
| Code: | # emerge pcmcia-cs wireless-tools -pv
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 -trusted -build -apm -pnp -nocardbus
[ebuild R ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-25-r1 |
My net file is as follows. I've decided to name the wireless card eth1 as knoppix also named it ethX and not wlanX
| Code: | # grep -v ^# /etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="10.0.13.100 broadcast 10.0.255.255 netmask 255.255.0.0"
iface_eth1="dhcp"
gateway="eth0/10.0.0.1"
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As knoppix does it, I try to load the hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs modules, I just don't have any of them. 
| Code: | # /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
* Starting pcmcia...
cardmgr[7669]: watching 1 sockets [ ok ] |
gives two light beeps, the last a bit higher than the first.
Then of course, I get this
| Code: | # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
* Could not get dependency info for "net.eth1"!
* Could not get dependency info for "net.eth1"!
* Bringing eth1 up...
* Failed to bring eth1 up [ !! ]
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This problem is killing me.
I'll sure be glad when I'll get it solved.
I suspect my my /etc/conf.d/net to be wrong. Maybe someone knows what I have done wrong? |
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Dracnor
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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I would take a look at /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
Also how is your kernel configured? Do you have CardBus disabled? How about the settings under wireless (non-Ham Radio)?
Also try giving it a static address in /etc/conf.d/net
Keep in mind that you need to re-emerge pcmcia-cs every time after you've compiled the kernel.
What is the output of dmesg? Post that up here (relevant parts)...it may help too.
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