Airlink 101 Wireless woes
Forum: Networking
Topic: Airlink 101 Wireless woes
started by: jmhenry5150
Posted by jmhenry5150 on Sep. 04 2006,14:37
Hi everyone!New to Linux here (but a software developer) - so I'm not a total newb
I have successfully booted DSL onto a DELL Latitude CPi 233 - 128 mb of RAM...
I have an Airlink 101 wireless card (model: AWLC4030-II) which does power on and is identified as:
"Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000"
I have done everything I know to get it to work - so please help!
I have run through iwconfig and tried many things:
- sid in quotes, not in quoets
- wep with ":" seperating the 128bit encryption key and tried without the quotes
Nothing works. I keep getting "Connection Failed" and then the box disappears (that is very frutrating as well - I have to keep entering the wep key everytime)...
Can someone enlighten me on what to do? The only thing I need the laptop to do is be a web browser! lol
Thanks in advance!
-Mike
Posted by roberts on Sep. 04 2006,17:30
I use that very pcmcia card with ndiswrapper and it works well for me. I use the AirLink101/AWLC4030/net5211.inf as supplied by Airlink
Posted by jmhenry5150 on Sep. 04 2006,18:22
Hey roberts!Thx for the reply...
Can you please walk me thru getting it setup...? Baby-step me here...VERY appreciated if you could...
Thanks!
-Mike
Posted by roberts on Sep. 04 2006,19:42
#!/bin/bashpkill pump
mount /mnt/hda1
ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda1/Program\ Files/Airlink101/AWLC4030/net5211.inf
sleep 1
modprobe ndiswrapper
sleep 3
iwconfig wlan0 essid my_network_name
iwconfig wlan0 key xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx essid my_network_name
pump -i wlan0
This is a script that I call airlink.sh
Edit it for your specs.
I am using the actual Windows installed Airlink files on hda1
Test run it from home dir with
sudo airlink.sh
If it works for you and you want it to always run at boot time then add to /opt/bootlocal.sh
HTH
Posted by roberts on Sep. 07 2006,04:48
As a side note...That card works natively with DSL-N
Just be sure to boot nodhcp
The card appears as eth0 and iwconfig commands work fine.
No ndiswrapper required.
Posted by abcsar on Oct. 13 2006,12:04
Hello,I do not find the Wiki Sysop e-mail address, so excuse me for putting this message here, please. I have an Ovislink (108) pcmcia net card with an Atheros chipset (Atheros 5001) and my laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDS (Intel Celeron 150 MHz, 64 Mb RAM, boots DSL with "fb800x600" option). It does not work "out of the box" (wiki dixit) with DSL, (it does with DSL-N), but it takes a very little effort:
1- Go to MyDSL -> UCI and select Madwifi-NG and, in the ATerminal console, as root ("sudo su"), do this:
2- pkill pump
3- sudo sh /opt/madwifi-ng-2.4.26/madwifi_setup.sh
4- ifconfig ath0 up
5- iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXX key XXXXX
(Remember that you can search for avaliable routers with "iwlist ath0 scan")
6- pump -i ath0
(you can write steps from 2 to 6 in a file called start_wifi.sh, for example, (with "sleep 2"" between 3 and 4 and between 5 and 6), and execute it with "sudo sh start_wifi.sh")
(With DSL-N, you just need steps from 4 to 6, (write eth0 or eth1 instead of ath0))
(I had a D-Link G650+ PCMCIA net card, but it seemed not to work properly with the acx driver (neither with ndiswrapper), so I changed it for the Ovislink one)
I hope this can be usefull for Atheros card owners.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 13 2006,13:59
Side note:Why do you need the wiki sysop email? Anyways its John and WinterKnight who have access to that afaik. You could make your own wiki account too.
Posted by abcsar on Oct. 14 2006,21:57
Thank you for the advise. I have forgotten to write that the Atheros card is shown as an "AR5212" model by DSL and the graphic card as a "Trident Cyber 9525" one.