[Gllug] Wireless cards see each other, but I can't get them toping

[Andy Farnsworth]

I know you don't want to hear this, but I have found that working with a
known working system as a test base is much easier than grasping in the
dark.  That said, do you have either of these machines running windows and
using the cards?  If so, keep it in windows and get the other working under
Linux and talking to the working one.  Once you have done that, reboot into
Linux and it should be fairly simple to get them working together.  Windows
isn't pretty and I don't like it any better than you, however, it is the
supported platform for the wireless cards to work on.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-bounces at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at linux.co.uk]On
Behalf Of Tom Schutzer-Weissmann
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:03 PM
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Wireless cards see each other, but I can't get them
toping


Thanks Formi
> First, you forgot to mention the cards you are talking about?
> If any of them is a 802.11g, good luck!

> The sequence in which the configuration commands are issued it's
> important.

They're both 802.11b

One's a Sitecom WL-011 PCMCIA card, uses the ATMEL pcmf502r driver
the PCI one is built into an IBM R30 Thinkpad, and uses orinoco_pci

First I set the essid and mode of the orinoco one:
iwconfig eth0 essid simple mode ad-hoc channel 1

then I insert the PCMCIA card and look in syslog, to see an entry in the BSS
list with the channel and essid I just set.

then I configure the PCMCIA card (which starts out in managed mode)
iwconfig eth0 essid simple mode ad-hoc

It's really encouraging that the PCMCIA card thinks it's joined a network,
less encouraging that the orinoco one keeps mum. I'm going to try
recompiling the driver to make it more verbose.

regards,
Tom



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