[ltp] wireless problem on X21

[Heather Guse]

Check a couple of things first...I don't believe upgrading will solve it.  I have RedHat 7.1 on a T22 with a Silver card (Orinoco)...as a newbie it took me awhile to figure out what was going on.

try manually starting it using the iwconfig command
Running iwconfig alone will probably bring up:
lo        no wireless extensions.

try running the commands below in this order with your net info replacing the stars.

iwconfig eth1 essid **** or ANY
iwconfig eth1 mode managed	#if you are not using ad-hoc
iwconfig eth1 key *************

at last run:
ifup eth1

it sounds like your wavelan_cs drv is loading.

If these commands work you will want to make changes in the /etc/pcmcia directory specifically to the wireless.opts file.

The biggest problem I ran into was thinking I was going crazy when i would enter in the commands and it still wouldn't work.  It turns out I was not putting in the proper format for the encryption key.

To see if you are even associating with your AP or RG(Lucent):
iwconfig eth1


Hope this helps

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:46:43PM -0800, Bill Feiereisen had written:
> I have an X21 with RH7.1 in a dual boot with Win2K. I am unable to get my
> 802.11 wireless to work under linux, but other PCMCIA services work (for
> instance an IBM microdrive).  The card is an Orinoco gold. The built-in
> ethernet NIC works fine as eth0. I'd like to configure the PC card as eth1.
> 
> lsmod shows:
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> wavelan_cs             23008   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> cs4281                 47056   2 (autoclean)
> soundcore               4464   3 (autoclean) [cs4281]
> autofs                 11264   1 (autoclean)
> ds                      7280   4 [wavelan_cs]
> yenta_socket           11440   4
> pcmcia_core            43072   0 [wavelan_cs ds yenta_socket]
> eepro100               16624   1 (autoclean)
> ipchains               38976   0 (unused)
> ide-scsi                8352   0
> scsi_mod               95104   1 [ide-scsi]
> ide-cd                 26848   0
> cdrom                  27232   0 [ide-cd]
> usb-uhci               20720   0 (unused)
> usbcore                49664   1 [usb-uhci]
> 
> but there are some messages at boot that I don't understand and are not
> captured in boot.log or from dmesg. the message is something like "incorrect
> IRQ. Module might have incorrect parameters." I'ver never understood IRQ's.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Could I just skip the whole problem by upgrading to RH7.2?
> 
> Bill Feiereisen
> www.feiereisen.net
> 
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