[MLB-WIRELESS] Whats happening here?

Brent Avery bsavery at bigpond.com
Sun May 4 11:29:52 EST 2003


I think the dlink 650+ cards use a chipset that is unsupported in linux
or bsd.

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Brent

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Garreth Cain
Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2003 9:59
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats happening here?


Hi Matt,

I really should have given more information!

The card is a D-Link DWL-650+
and my distribution is Debian 3.0 running 2.4.20-1-k6

The machine does beep when I put it in, if I tail the logs, it even
shows me that it is enabling the slot.

I tailed my /var/log/syslog all it says when I try ifup wlan0 is
'Unknown hardware address' again and again.....

linux-wlan drivers Im using are 0.2.1-pre3

I can't think of any other usefull information...

Regards,

Garreth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matt Boyd 
To: Garreth Cain 
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats happening here?


what sort of card is it? if its an orinoco clone/type then check
modprobe to see if the orinoco modules are loaded.
when you put the card in, does it beep, they usually do. Check the
output of "dmesg" and "tail /var/log messages" to see if the modules are
recognised for that card and being loaded.

More info needed ie what sort of card and which version of linux


At 09:33 AM 4/5/2003 +1000, you wrote:

Hi Guys,
 
I just bought a shiney new PCMCIA Wireless card for my laptop (An old
Compaq Presario 1685 with a busted LCD) The theory is that Im going to
use it as a Firewall/DSL router since I cant get wires from the phone
point to my study (dont ask!)
 
I have installed the linux-wlan drivers for PCI cards many times, and
have run throught the same process with this machine making the
respective changes (PCI to PCMCIA for example)
 
HOWEVER! When I try to ifup wlan0 I get this:
 
gre0: unknown hardware address 778
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device
gre0: unknown hardware address 778
Bind socket to interface: No such device
exiting.
 
A friend of mine told me that one of hist laptops couldnt run wireless
cards beause the interupts were out of the CPUs range... He's currently
out the country so I cant ask him if this is the error he was getting...
My PCMCIA socket is working because I am currently running a Dlink
PCMCIA Nic in it to connect to the rest of my network.
 
Does anyone have any ideas?
All comments will be appreciated.
 
Regards,
 
Garreth



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