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Topic: Wireless connection, How to configure cards

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beep_gr

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Posts: 8
Joined: Feb. 2007

Posted: 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..

torp

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Posts: 172
Joined: July 2005

Posted: 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

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torp

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Posts: 172
Joined: July 2005

Posted: May 16 2007,00:33

to scan just use the following command;

iwlist ath0 scan

torp

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beep_gr

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Posts: 8
Joined: Feb. 2007

Posted: May 16 2007,16:56

Quote (torp @ May 15 2007,20:31)

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

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...