[TriLUG] Wireless Help

[David A. Cafaro]

Just a quick question but do you have the firmware for the card
installed?  I don't know if debian includes it or not with their driver,
but you may need to setup the firmware:

http://prism54.org/firmware/

This could cause the problems you are seeing.

-David

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:49, Brian McCullough wrote:
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> All,
> 
> I have been re-reading the recent messages regarding 802.11 use and
> have, I thought, followed everything that was relevant to my situation,
> but still have some funny behaviour ( and a lack of communication! ).
> 
> 
> I have a Netgear MR814 v2 access point, and the laptop has an SMC 2835W,
> which seems to be liked by the built-in Prism 54 driver in my Debian
> 2.6.8 kernel.
> 
> I have found that I can configure the Netgear box by physically
> connecting the laptop to one of the LAN ports, and so have changed the
> IP address ( my internal LAN is 192.168.1. ) because the default
> 192.168.0.1 was not compatible with the environment.  So far, so good. I
> then changed the ESSID, and left WEP off ( for now ).  I also changed
> the default channel 11 to 9.
> 
> My reading seemed to indicate that the Netgear wanted to be the DHCP
> server for anything connecting on the wireless port, so I assigned a few
> addresses and enabled that.
> 
> I then went to the laptop and, following the instructions given in a
> message in my archives, did the following:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 down
> iwconfig eth0 essid my_essid channel 9 key off
> ifconfig eth0 up
> 
> Unfortunately, when I issue "dhcpd eth0", I get "no such command".  In
> network/interfaces, I have included "iface eth0 inet dhcp" ( working
> =66rom memory, so may have mis-spelled something ).
> 
> When the wired card is plugged in to the laptop and into the Netgear, an
> address is assigned to eth0.
> 
> When I connect wirelessly, funny things happen.
> 
> I issue the ifconfig down command and neither ifconfig nor iwconfig show
> anything for eth0.  I issue the iwconfig command and ESSID and channel
> are as set.  I issue the ifconfig up command and both lights on the SMC
> card flash in varying ways.  I check ifconfig and iwconfig and find that
> ifconfig does not have an address and iwconfig, each time that I issue
> it, reports a different frequency and no ESSID.
> 
> Where do I go from here?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Brian
> 
> 
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