Networking :: Wireless connection



Hallo...
I'm trying to connect my dsl via wireless so I can use it as router.

I like dsl because it is very small and it is very good distro...

In my case, I have 4 Atheros cards AR5212 802.11abg connected on my pci.
I took a look at some forums posted at:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ireless

and

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....85;st=0

but I couln't make it work.


At iwconfig I have these results:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  
         Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
         Bit Rate:0kb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wifi1     no wireless extensions.

ath1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"awmn-9297-3433"  
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.3GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
         Bit Rate:0kb/s   Tx-Power:14 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wifi2     no wireless extensions.

ath2      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  
         Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
         Bit Rate:0kb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wifi3     no wireless extensions.

ath3      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  
         Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
         Bit Rate:0kb/s   Tx-Power:50 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3  
         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:0/94  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

So everything looks fine. The antenna where I want to use for my first steps is ath1. It's the card where I'll connect to the wireless network. The ESSID is correct but I have no access point...
On command line I text wlcardconfig, I configure my ath1 but nothing happens...

Can you give me instructions step by step how to configure my network cards and how to make it work every time I reboot my system...

By the way... What it the command to scan for access points?

Thanks a lot..
i just use the following commands,

ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 "essid"
pump -i atho

after that i am good to go. place the commands in your bootlocal.sh file.

torp
to scan just use the following command;

iwlist ath0 scan


torp
Quote (torp @ May 15 2007,20:31)
i just use the following commands,

ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 "essid"
pump -i atho

after that i am good to go. place the commands in your bootlocal.sh file.

torp

Nothing happened...

I set "ifconfig ath1 up"
ath1 is up with no ip, netmask e.t.c.

When I text "iwconfig ath1 essid awmn-9297-3433"
looks that it is ok but when I text "pump -i ath1"
it says 'operation failed"

Any idea???

Thanks...
i would google the "pump" command, see what you can do with it, or how to troubleshoot it. were you able to scan?

torp
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