Help: AirDash WRUB-2011i from AshtonDigitalForum: Networking Topic: Help: AirDash WRUB-2011i from AshtonDigital started by: josiahbryan Posted by josiahbryan on Oct. 02 2006,15:55
Hey all -I've got an AirDash WRUB-2011i Wirless USB Stick from Ashton Digital. Plug it into my board running DSL. 'dmesg' reports that hotplug loads prism2_usb, and an lsmod | grep prism confirms that prism2_usb and some other prism modules load, yet I cannot get a device to show up in ifconfig. I cannot even "ifup" or "ifconfig <ipaddress> <deviceice>" or "ifconfig <device> up" - all fail with an error message saying it couldn't find named device. I've tried "wlan0", "wifi0", "eth1", etc....the only devices in ifconfig are lo0 and eth0. (No, dmesg reported no errors - just showed prism loaded and init'd) Any ideas on how to troubleshoot or procede? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 02 2006,16:12
Did you configure it yet?You can try the prism2 tool in DSLPanel (see < http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/DSLPanel > ) Posted by josiahbryan on Oct. 02 2006,16:17
Right now, the board DSL is running on is headless (it's inside a sealed box, tied to a din rail and relay rack running a fountain and some other industrial perks, sitting next to a pond here at Hq) - but anyway, is there any similar command to the Lua prism config tool that can be run from the command line (ssh)? Or how about, what does the config tool do - can I do that manually from the terminal?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 03 2006,14:04
If you really want to do it just from a console terminal...That prism2 lua tool creates a script that calls
But you could use the lua tool over ssh by forwarding X (ssh -X), which, if you don't need to just use the console and prefer a gui, may be easier/preferrable for you. Posted by josiahbryan on Oct. 03 2006,21:22
Wonderful! Works great.....in Infrastructure, anyway.When I try to do an "iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc" it fails with:
Is this a prism "bug" - that it won't work in ad-hoc, only infrastructure mode? Or is there some way of setting ad-hoc that I'm unaware of? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 04 2006,04:23
I assume you've previously had it working in ad-hoc mode before?Maybe the prism2 in DSL isn't compiled with that mode... (The only thing I picked up was for madwifi in the forums) Posted by josiahbryan on Oct. 04 2006,11:27
No, i've nevre had DSL running in Ad-Hoc, so im not quite sure how to do it. However, with FC3 on an HP Tablet PC (TC 2000), I've ran ad hoc using just that command "iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc", then set the essid with iwconfig as well. It would associate and communicate with win2k and winxp machines configured for ad-hoc as well ("computer-to-computer" in windows lingo.) But back to the airdash - no, i havn't used it in ad-hoc, but i would assume the hardware would support it, it just sounds like a driver issue. Is that error message from the driver or is it indicative of hardware rejection? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 04 2006,15:17
Well I think it's the included prism2 driver, you could try another version I suppose.Just looked it up, and it does look like your device does support ad-hoc mode anyways. |