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Topic: Wireless Cardbus Network Card, Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b Wireless

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ke4nt1

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Posted: July 24 2004,02:39

For my laptop, I picked up one of these pcmcia wireless lan cards today.
Plugged it in, booted DSL, and it worked...

Or so I thought.. figured I had to set the wep, but NO...

Well.. almost... Lights Up... !!!

When you bootup it shows....

cardmgr[59]: starting, version is 3.1.33
cardmgr[59]: watching 2 sockets
cardmge[59]: Card Service release does not match
cardmgr[59]: Socket 0 : PROXIM Rangelan-DS/LAN PC CARD
cardmgr[59]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
cardmgr[59]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
cardmgr[59]: + debian network setup
cardmgr[59]: + /sbin/ifup wlan0
cardmgr[59]: + ifup ignoring unknown interface wlan0

and when you shutdown .......

cardmgr[59]: executing: './wlan-ng stop wlan0'
cardmgr[59]: + /sbin/ifdown wlan0
cardmgr[59]: + ifdown: Ignoring unknown interface wlan0
cardmgr[59]: + /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 down
cardmgr[59]: executing: 'modprobe -r prism2_cs

I've searched thru the forums for some details.
Most posts tell of either great success or failure/compile driver...

Any ideas? Seems like I'm real close...
The driver is listed in dmesg as the prism2_cs irq3 io=0x0100 - 0x013f

[URL] http://www.directron.com/rangelands.html]Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA[/URL]

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ke4nt1

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Posted: July 24 2004,10:02

OK here is my current progress so far for this damn PROXIM RangeLAN-DS wireless card...

<<"ifconfig">>

lo link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:25 erroes:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:25 erroes:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2800 (2.7 KiB) TX bytes:2800 (2.7 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-60-xx-xx-xx-xx-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:102.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:27 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:647118 (631.9 KiB) TX Bytes:) (0.0 Kib)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

<<"iwconfig">>

lo no wireless extensions

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"box" Nickname:"box"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.447Ghz Access Point: 00:0F:xx:xx:xx:xx
<-- this is my mac for router, ...it found it by itself -->
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power:-1064919200 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0/1 Signal Level:-90 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 RX invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Surely, I'm making some good progress here.... Still no internet or pings, though...
Does any of this look either real good, or real bad ??
Any Ideas?

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Posted: July 31 2004,14:18

I FINALLY got this wireless card working....

<<EDIT>>
I'm guessing this will work for ANY prism2 chipset.
GIve it a try, and feecback...
<</EDIT>>

wlcardconfig just dies, it says no wireless card found.
iwconfig usually shows nothing lo - no wireless extensions
netcardconfig shows no network card found..

Using some other tools I found gave me the results posted
earlier in this thread, but no wireless connection .. Boo..

Here's what I did to get this prism2 chipset working..

type in a shell as sudo su...

"wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable" <enter>

and the shell reports...

"message=lnxreq_ifstate
ifstate=enable
resultcode=success

now, type

"wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=linkkor authtype=opensystem" <enter>

and the shell reports...

"message=lnxreq_autojoin
ssid='linksys'
authtype=opensystem
resultcode=success"

Now, I go to the "netcardconfig" option in the menu,
It asks me to try DHCP, click "yes"
It reports "OK"

and I'm ONLINE .... totally unsecure, but it's a start..

WOOHOO !!

now to get the wep code in there too..
maybe add it to the last line before running netcardconfig..

YES,YES,YES.. give my creation LIFE AAAHAHAHHAA

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ke4nt1

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Posted: July 31 2004,22:55

bump

Ian
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Posted: Oct. 26 2004,02:31

Good Man!! I have been fighting with a 3com card which gave the same problems as your card, could be rebranded, and with two lines in the console it works!!! Thanks a ton!

Ian

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