[Preston] Network Newbie need help with WiFi

Wed Nov 20 20:24:00 2002

It looks like you haven't assigned an ip address for your wireless card. You
should be able to do this by creating an ifcfg-eth0 in
/etc/syconfig/network-scripts/

You also need to set an IP address on your XP machine in the same range as
your Linux box. Either set this manually or set up a dhcp server operating
in the same subnet as your linux box.

The orinoco driver is ok, but I suggest compiling the hostap driver
http://hostap.epitest.fi/

If you get this working, would you be willing to join our community wireless
LAN project. This is a completely voluntary project, trying to create a
coherent wireless network accross the region.

All the best,
Ken
WNAP (Wireless Network Access Project)
----- Original Message -----
From: "entwisi" <entwisi@dsl.pipex.com>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:06 PM
Subject: [Preston] Network Newbie need help with WiFi

> Hi guys(and gals)
>
>  I am a relative newbie to linux and networking in general and was
> wondering if anyone could help. I have a wireless LAN running in XP Pro
> but I am trying to convert to Mandrake. I have sorted all my other
> issues(NVidia drivers, ADSL connection etc) but  this has me stumped.
>
> IN XP my setup sort of defies convention but works OK. Basically I have
> an Actiontec PCI wifi card(DABs value range) in my box and a Actiontec
> USB WiFi adaptor in SWMBOs set to Ad-hoc. Under XP I had a little fun
> getting everything working. In the end the setup is as follows. My PC
> has a fixed IP (192.168.1.0 subnet 255.255.255.0) with a workgroup
> called "Workgroup". SWMBOs has a dynamic assigned IP(which is always
> 169.254.171.47 subnet 255.255.0.0) with workgroup "MSHOME". This allows
> File sharing and Internet connection through my box with no major
> problems. I don't really know why it works cause I was told both
> workgroup names should be the same as should the IPs be in the same
> range.
>
> So... I need to get ICS and file sharing working under MDK9.0. I
> understand that for the file sharing I need to configure Samba but at
> the moment I can't even ping the boxes so I am not playing around in
> that just yet. Through searching Google I found that my card needs the
> orinoco_pci module (it has a Prism 2.5 chipset which is recognised in
> Harddrake) rather than the orinoco_cs or wavelan drivers. I eventually
> found this module. On issuing modprobe orinoco_pci when I start MDK
> Control centre an eth0 appears. In the /var/log/messages file I see
>
>  Nov 20 19:31:20 localhost kernel: eth0: Channel out of range (0)!
> Nov 20 19:31:21 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth0
> Nov 20 19:31:24 localhost kernel: eth0: Channel out of range (0)!
> Nov 20 19:37:49 localhost last message repeated 2 times
>
>
>  I have the wireless tools installed, the output of ifconfig and
> iwconfig are as follows, I had set essid before doing this(my ppp IP
> munged for security)
>
> [root@localhost log]# ifconfig
> 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:454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:28898 (28.2 Kb)  TX bytes:28898 (28.2 Kb)
>
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>           inet addr:*.*.*.*  P-t-P:81.86.144.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:10534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:9982 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
>           RX bytes:10065226 (9.5 Mb)  TX bytes:908863 (887.5 Kb)
>
> [root@localhost log]# iwconfig
> eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Workgroup"  Nickname:"Prism  I"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:42.9497GHz  Access Point:
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           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:0/92  Signal level:-68 dBm  Noise level:-122 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is teh last hurdle to a
> M$free world.<fx: cheers abound as another one leaves the nest>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
>
>
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