wlanctl-ng and iwconfig issues

Forum: Laptops
Topic: wlanctl-ng and iwconfig issues
started by: MASSRADIUS

Posted by MASSRADIUS on Dec. 31 2004,08:38

Hi,

Just starting with DSL and I'm having some wireless issues with my PCMCIA card. I read an older post on configuring a Linksys WPC11 v3 card and tried the below:

wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable

never made it past this point as I got a "wlanctl-ng: No such device" error. I also tried:

iwconfig wlan0 essid "massradius" > Massradius is my essid

and got "Error for wireless request "set ESSID (8B1A) : Set failed on device wlan0 : No such device"

any ideas?

Posted by Massradius on Jan. 03 2005,21:47

I just ordered a Prisim Orinico Silver card...hopefully this will work. Any idea what the below errors are telling me?

Posted by AwPhuch on Jan. 03 2005,23:38

Did you setup the wireless portion using the DSL Panel...you must supply the correct SSID, encryption key and channel for it to work properly....I believe it should take effect immediately...if it doesnt then try to turn off the drivers and re-enable

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by MassRadius on Jan. 06 2005,05:11

I did an got "No Wireless Network Card found". I get the same msg for the Linksys wpc11 v3 and now I'm getting it with the Prisim Orinico Silver card (both 80211b). Both work fine in windows and DSL detects both on startup (it says loading card mgr etc.) so I'm not sure why it suddenly can't see it when I'm logged in....any ideas?

Posted by caulktel on Jan. 06 2005,05:42

I'm using a Orinoco Gold card with my laptop, and I don't have to configure anything, it just works. I also use a Linksys wpc-11 v3 card, also without configuration, it just works. I am running DSL .9.2 from the hard drive, but I don't think that should matter.

Posted by OK on Jan. 06 2005,23:23

Any idea why it doesn't even detect it? Is it because I'm running it from a CD?

Posted by AwPhuch on Jan. 07 2005,17:37

Quote (Guest @ Jan. 06 2005,18:23)

Any idea why it doesn't even detect it? Is it because I'm running it from a CD?

Does your older hardware work with cardbus?

Check to ensure you pcmcia card is "true" pcmcia and not cardbus

Gold strip where pins go into card = cardbus
no strip = pcmcia

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Massradius on Jan. 10 2005,21:31

How do you check your PCMCIA card? I'm asuming you're not talking about the Linksys card (it's got a gold strip but at the end near the pins but not actually over the pins as it's on a different side of the rectangle). My PCMCIA card is covered with a little door that opens when I slide the linksys card in...how can I get to it without messing up the computer (it's an IBM thinkpad X31 and my employer owns it so I don't want to ruin it..plus it's fairly new).

So does DSL only work with PCMCIA or cardbus? Sorry for all the questions but I'm a complete Linux noob

thanks for your time

Posted by Bingo on Jan. 10 2005,22:44

I just was looking around a bit more and it looks like you were talking about the wireless card....and this definetly looks like cardbus (i.e. gold stripe). Am I sunk? Which wireless card should I get?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 12 2005,03:59

DSL works with PCMCIA and Cardbus.

HOWEVER, many older laptop computers do NOT work with Cardbus devices so if this is the case, then you are sunk.

Generally speaking with some exceptions, if you can sucessfully use a Cardbus device on a laptop while running Windows, then you can probably get it to work while running DSL.

Posted by MASSRADIUS on Jan. 12 2005,06:02

Hi Guys,

I'm surfing the web using DSL and my linksys WPC11 v4 wireless card. Sorry for all the trouble. The package said it was v3 but yesterday I turned the thing over and noticed it was version 4! Anyway I downloaded the WinXP drivers from realtek (specifically net8180.inf) and after stepping through NDISWrapper everything is working.

I actually saved the Net8180.inf directly to my C drive, booted up DSL, mounted my hardrive pointed to /mnt/hda1/net8180.inf. The key here was mounting my hard drive....finally figured out that's what the panel in the corner does! Once I did that I just ran the wlanconfig followed by netcardconfig and I'm up and running. If anyone is confused on how to do this (with the linksys wpc11 v4 card). I'd be happy to help