Networking :: Lucent wavelan recognized+driver but no connection

hi everyone,

i installed damn small linux on my old sony vaio PCG-Z600NE and it really works fine. It`s so fast.
The only thing that does not work is wireless lan.
I tried two pcmcia cards:
- Lucent technologies Wavelan
- SMC 2632W
With the smc card nothing works so i tried the lucent card. it seems to work... That means it is recognized and a driver is installed and the card even sometimes flashes :-)
So i tried this wlanconfig tool but i don`t manage to connect.
If i try an iwlist i get:

Code Sample

eth0 interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported

What is the reason? Any idea?
i will give you now some informations that might help. i have to admitt that although i use linux since a lot of years somehow i'm still like a newbie because i prefer that graphical confiuguration tools...
So please tell me if i have to add some other informations.

thx and greetings from germany
marko

parts of my dmesg which might be interesting:

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[...]
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x08b8, PCI irq 9
Socket status: 30000419
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x3e8-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0003:0006
eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 3.06
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: MAC address 00:60:1D:1D:76:1A
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:56:04 Aug 29 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfc60, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 00:08.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[fecfe000-fecfe7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x846/0x6a00) is not claimed by any active driver.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[08004603004f4545]
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 8250
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0b.0
eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 08:00:46:06:58:39, IRQ 9.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 100001-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
PCI: Enabling device 00:09.0 (0006 -> 0007)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0
[...]

here my ifconfig:

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:1D:76:1A
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:06:58:39
inet addr:192.168.0.122 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1393 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1018054 (994.1 KiB) TX bytes:148603 (145.1 KiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:583 (583.0 b) TX bytes:583 (583.0 b)

my lscpi:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 02)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller] (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
00:0d.0 FLASH memory: Sony Corporation Memory Stick Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20)

parts of my /var/log/messages:

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[...]
Jan 24 09:35:08 box daemon.info init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: './network check eth0'
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: './network stop eth0'
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: + /sbin/ifdown eth0
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: + ifdown: Ignoring unknown interface eth0
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: + /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe -r orinoco_cs'
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe -r orinoco'
Jan 24 09:35:14 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe -r hermes'
Jan 24 09:35:17 box syslog.info System log daemon exiting.
Jan 24 09:36:42 box syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.2.2
Jan 24 09:36:42 box daemon.info pumpd[316]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:00:39) Sat Jan 24 09:36:42 2009
Jan 24 09:36:42 box daemon.debug pumpd[316]: HOSTNAME: requesting box
Jan 24 09:36:42 box daemon.debug pumpd[316]: PUMP: sending discover
Jan 24 09:45:24 box auth.info login(pam_unix)[310]: session opened for user dsl by LOGIN(uid=0)
Jan 24 09:45:29 box daemon.err modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 24 09:45:29 box daemon.err modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 24 09:47:09 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=tty1; PWD=/home/dsl; USER=root; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gtkfind
Jan 24 09:48:08 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=pts/0; PWD=/home/dsl; USER=root; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gtkfind
Jan 24 09:49:01 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=pts/0; PWD=/etc/network; USER=root; COMMAND=/bin/vi interfaces
Jan 24 09:49:59 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=pts/0; PWD=/var/log; USER=root; COMMAND=/bin/vi auth.log
Jan 24 09:52:24 box daemon.err modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 24 09:52:24 box daemon.err modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 24 09:52:24 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=tty1; PWD=/home/dsl; USER=root; COMMAND=/bin/rm -f /tmp/mydsl/*.app
Jan 24 09:52:24 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=tty1; PWD=/home/dsl; USER=root; COMMAND=/bin/rm -rf /tmp/mydsl.installed/*
Jan 24 09:52:24 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=tty1; PWD=/home/dsl; USER=root; COMMAND=/bin/rm -rf /tmp/mydsl.menu/*
Jan 24 09:52:24 box authpriv.notice sudo: dsl : TTY=tty1; PWD=/home/dsl; USER=root; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -h now
Jan 24 09:52:25 box daemon.info init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Jan 24 09:52:31 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: './network check eth0'
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: './network stop eth0'
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: + /sbin/ifdown eth0
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: + ifdown: Ignoring unknown interface eth0
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: + /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe -r orinoco_cs'
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe -r orinoco'
Jan 24 09:52:32 box daemon.info cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe -r hermes'
[...]

and finally parts of my stats:

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[...]
dsl-4.4.10 Sat Jan 24 22:26:17 2009
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 496.317
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 989.59

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 262328320 72302592 190025728 0 2957312 30720000
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 256180 kB
MemFree: 185572 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 2888 kB
Cached: 30000 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 21296 kB
Inactive: 11636 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 256180 kB
LowFree: 185572 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
FULLNAME="Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter"
DRIVER="orinoco_cs"
search
nameserver 213.191.92.86
nameserver 62.109.123.7
nameserver 192.168.0.1
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:1D:76:1A
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:06:58:39
inet addr:192.168.0.122 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1182676 (1.1 MiB) TX bytes:179609 (175.3 KiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:583 (583.0 b) TX bytes:583 (583.0 b)

apm 9736 1 (autoclean)
mousedev 3832 0 (unused)
hid 22788 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev hid]
cloop 39364 0 (unused)
af_packet 13608 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 44388 0 (unused)
ymfpci 43340 0
ac97_codec 12108 0 [ymfpci]
uart401 6052 0 [ymfpci]
sound 55244 0 [uart401]
soundcore 3428 4 [ymfpci sound]
eepro100 19412 1
mii 2240 0 [eepro100]
serial 52196 0 (autoclean)
ohci1394 22888 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183300 0 [ohci1394]
usb-uhci 21708 0 (unused)
usbcore 58240 1 [hid usb-uhci]
orinoco_cs 4468 1
orinoco 32940 0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes 5124 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds 6536 1 [orinoco_cs]
yenta_socket 9700 1
pcmcia_core 39840 0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
ide-cd 28768 0
ide-scsi 9264 0
rtc 7004 0 (autoclean)

[...]

Socket status: 30000419
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x3e8-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0003:0006
eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 3.06
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: MAC address 00:60:1D:1D:76:1A
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
[...]

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