[MLB-WIRELESS] More help please.

[Mikel Pretty]

I have now got them going but I have to keep the Cisco x software running on
each RedHat 9.0 machine to keep the link up.  I want to be able to run it in
console only mode (hate GUI).  As soon as I drop the x desktop on one of
them the link falls over.  Does anyone have any ideas.

-----Original Message-----
From: sneeze at alphalink.com.au [mailto:sneeze at alphalink.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2003 1:04 PM
To: Mikel Pretty
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Need HELP please!!!


Have you configured /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and network.opts?

Is this using kernel pcmcia?  If so I've found it easier to remove
PCMCIA/Cardbus support from the kernel and also enable Wireless network
card support but disable installing of all drivers and then recompile
kernel and install.  Then downloaded the latest pcmcia-cs package and
installed that separatelly.
I don't know a heck of alot about linux, i've just always done it this way
for wireless support and never had any problems.


>Having trouble configuring a 2 x cisco 350 PCMCIA cards.  I am using
Redhat
>9.0 on both machines (Machines have identical hardware in them) and am
>trying to get the machines to talk to each other via wireless each machine
>is configured identically except for the mac addresses and ip's obviously.
>
>I am using a compaq PCI cradle but that is not the issue as this cradle
>worked fine with my other Cisco 340 PCMCIA card in RedHat 7.3.  The cradle
>detects the card and beeps ect running ifconfig and iwconfig it shows the
>cards present.
>
>I have Eth0 as a Intel 100mbps card
>I have Eth1 as Cisco 350 Wireless pcmcia (in Compaq cradle)
>
>This is what get on each machine when I run iwconfig
>
>eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"  Nickname:"alby"
>          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: BA:00:E1:00:28:02
>          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
>          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:176/10  Signal level:-110 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:111   Missed beacon:0
>
>wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"  Nickname:"alby"
>          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: BA:00:E1:00:28:02
>          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
>          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:176/10  Signal level:-110 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:111   Missed beacon:0
>
>This is what get on each machine when I run lsmod
>
>Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
>nls_iso8859-1           3516   0  (autoclean)
>nls_cp437               5116   0  (autoclean)
>vfat                   13004   0  (autoclean)
>fat                    38808   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
>parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
>lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
>parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
>autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
>airo_cs                 4900   0  (unused)
>airo                   49608   1  [airo_cs]
>ds                      8680   1  [airo_cs]
>yenta_socket           13472   1
>pcmcia_core            57216   0  [airo_cs ds yenta_socket]
>e100                   60644   1
>keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
>mousedev                5492   0  (unused)
>hid                    22148   0  (unused)
>input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
>usb-uhci               26348   0  (unused)
>usbcore                78784   1  [hid usb-uhci]
>ext3                   70784   2
>jbd                    51892   2  [ext3]
>
>This is the setup of ifcfg-eth0 on both machines (yes each machine has
diff
>ip just cant be fagged putting seperate ones in for each machine)
>
>DEVICE=eth0
>ONBOOT=yes
>BOOTPROTO=static
>IPADDR=10.12.0.1
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
>
>This is the setup of ifcfg-eth1 on both machines (yes each machine has
diff
>ip just cant be fagged putting seperate ones in for each machine)
>
>DEVICE=eth1
>ONBOOT=yes
>TYPE=wireless
>BOOTPROTO=static
>IPADDR=192.168.10.2
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>ESSID=test
>MODE=Ad-Hoc
>HWADDR=00:0c:30:d4:b0:f4
>RATE=auto
>CHANNEL=11
>
>With each machine set up the same I can not get them to ping etc.  I hope
>someone can help as I have started to run out of ideas.
>
>Thanks
>Mikel
>
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