Needs help set up Sony Vaio SRX77 wireless card

Forum: Networking
Topic: Needs help set up Sony Vaio SRX77 wireless card
started by: speedy0379

Posted by speedy0379 on July 23 2005,04:58

I recently installed Debian Linux distro on my Sony Vaio SRX77 notebook.
The installation set everything up except the built-in wireless card.
It is Orinoco wireless card and it seems it is installed correctly but I can't get it connected to the router and on startup screen the system output says there is no such device.
Here are some system outputs.

Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 2780 1 (autoclean)
isofs 23092 1 (autoclean)
input 3040 0 (autoclean)
apm 8428 1 (autoclean)
orinoco_cs 3860 0 (unused)
orinoco 29172 0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes 4708 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ide-cs 3012 1
af_packet 11048 1 (autoclean)
usb-storage 54496 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
usbcore 52268 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci]
i810_audio 21372 1
ac97_codec 11252 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3268 2 [i810_audio]
e100 42868 1
ohci1394 21648 0 (unused)
agpgart 39108 4
ds 5844 2 [orinoco_cs ide-cs]
yenta_socket 8804 2
pcmcia_core 38020 0 [orinoco_cs ide-cs ds yenta_socket]
sr_mod 11640 0 (unused)
sd_mod 10764 0 (unused)
sbp2 15024 0 (unused)
ieee1394 178724 0 [ohci1394 sbp2]
scsi_mod 86052 3 [usb-storage sr_mod sd_mod sbp2]
ide-cd 27072 1
cdrom 26212 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
rtc 5768 0 (autoclean)
ext3 65388 1 (autoclean)
jbd 34628 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix 7784 1 (autoclean)
ide-disk 12448 2 (autoclean)
ide-core 91832 3 (autoclean) [ide-cs usb-storage ide-cd ide-de tect piix ide-disk]
unix 12752 207 (autoclean)
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As you can see there is few lines with orinoco stuffs when I do "lsmod" but when I try to set up new network connection with Debian's Wireless setting there is no device I can choose to configure.
How can I solve this problem?
I believe the module for the wireless card is there but strangely Xwindow cannot find the device to configure when I try.
Please someone help me with this?
Thanks guys.

Posted by Ploppy on Dec. 28 2005,19:57

Hi speedy and other notebook users ,
I had exactly the same problem , maybe its because the Orinoco gold is automatically recognized , not as a WLAN but as an ethernet-card ,
so you have to use it as "eth0". I had several other problems getting it to work:
What the is an ESSID and why didnt I need it under Windows ?
ESSID in a home WLAN can left as blank or "off/any" , its NOT the MAC adress.
Poor Documentation on the hole internet ,nor this forum, no idea why :angry:

What channel should i use ? Why isnt Windows asking for a channel ? I have no idea but after several tries I found out that only channel 1 made the connection
ready.

Posted by tempestuous on Dec. 29 2005,05:31

I see from "e100" in your lsmod that you have a wired network adaptor as well as your orinoco/hermes wifi device. So you should first run "ifconfig -a" to see which network interface is eth0 and which is eth1.
Assuming your wifi interface is eth1, do this to set it up -

iwconfig eth1 essid MYESSID key 1234567890 mode managed
pump -i eth1

Obviously, replace "MYESSID" with your SSID and "1234567890" with your WEP key.