Networking :: Dynex PCMCIA WiFi (Best Buy house brand)

I imagine that by gold edge you're referring to the 1/4 inch of metal that is applied top side of the 68 pin-hole connector? The Dynex is then a CardBus.

I have one here with me right now, I just came back from Best Buy with it. Plugged in, booted up DSL 4.1 and the Power light on the card is illuminated.

I just executed lspci and I see it listed:

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 (rev dc)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001a (rev 01)

okay... iwconfig reports this from combined stdout and stderr:

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ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:0kb/s Tx-Power:0 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

lo no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

okay... now I've run the Wlanconfig command from the Control Panel. There are many options in there that I've never seen before so I took defaults for them: NWID (is this domain or host name?), additional parameters for iwspy, iwpriv?

I've also temporarily dropped the WEP encryption on my wireless access point.

Here are the pertinent changes:

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ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"[B]my_ssid_name[/B]"
Mode:Managed [B]Frequency:2.437GHz[/B] Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00

Ran pump -i ath0 and now both lights are blinking on the card. Now iwconfig returs:

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ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"my_ssid_name"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: [B]00:0A:0B:0C:0D:0E[/B]
Bit Rate:[B]54Mb/s[/B] Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
...
Link Quality:[B]27/94[/B] Signal level:-68 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:176 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Okay, I just checked the Active Clients List on my wireless access point configuration page and the card's MAC address shows up there...

But my laptop just shut down because it hit critical temperature of 93C. hmmmm, I had that happen a couple of times with Wolvix the other day as well... I'll be asking for help to understand how to get my fan spinning with cheat codes soon.

Okay, I've followed Robert's directions from the next post and I connected without any encrypption. Then I went to my access point and set up WEP again and I reconnected fine:

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# iwconfig ath0 key 99:99:99:99 essid your-net-name
# pump -i ath0
'# pkill pump

Now, what do I do to make this persistent? I have a hard-disk installation with multi-user.

Also, what do I need to do on the DSL (client side) to get WPA up and running?

I'm going to come back and edit this entry as I progress through this.

John

If you turned off encyrption then try the simplest command first:

# iwconfig ath0 essid your-net-name
# pump -i ath0

or with wep

# iwconfig ath0 key 99:99:99:99 essid your-net-name
# pump -i ath0

Once you do a pump, you may have to reboot or try
# pkill pump

Don't want to have pump hanging around.

The second one is the one that I use fot my airlink card

Thanks Robert, I'm going to try that now.

If it's using acpi, go to /proc/acpi/fan/FAN0. There's a file "state", do a

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echo -n "1" > state

to force it on.

@Robert,

WHOOHOOO!!! It worked!

The
iwconfig ath0...
pump...
pkill pump

combination worked!

I'm writing you from Dillo!

@curaga,

I saw the noacpi cheat code passed in when I booted up. Does this affect the fan? I'm going to go check the /proc/acpi... now.

I checked, there is /proc/acpi/fan directory.

Should I change cheat codes to try and get this turned on? What info can I upload that might help diagnose this?

Thanks

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