Wireless connectionForum: Networking Topic: Wireless connection started by: beep_gr Posted by beep_gr on May 15 2007,20:33
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.. Posted by torp on May 16 2007,00:31
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 Posted by torp on May 16 2007,00:33
to scan just use the following command;iwlist ath0 scan torp Posted by beep_gr on May 16 2007,16:56
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... Posted by torp on May 17 2007,01:49
i would google the "pump" command, see what you can do with it, or how to troubleshoot it. were you able to scan?torp Posted by beep_gr on May 18 2007,19:00
Well, after the pump command, my antenna ath1 from ifconfig is down... Posted by beep_gr on May 28 2007,18:13
Well, after a long time I realized that I have to run the file 'madwifi-ng-2.4.26.uci' Do I have to run the 'madwifi.dsl' ? I ask you because When I run 'sudo sh /opt/madwifi-ng-2.4.26/madwifi_setup.sh' I receive the following error: insmod: a module named wlan already exists insmod: a module named wlan_acl already exists insmod: a module named wlan_ccmp already exists insmod: a module named wlan_scan_ap already exists insmod: a module named wlan_scan_sta already exists insmod: a module named wlan_tkip already exists insmod: a module named wlan_wep already exists insmod: a module named wlan_xauth already exists insmod: a module named ath_hal already exists insmod: a module named ath_rate_sample already exists insmod: a module named ath_pci already exists wlanconfig: ioctl: Invalid argument On ifconfig command I have no ath* interface up... Any help? |