Hi,
My first mail to the list.
I am trying to setup wireless (WEP based) networking using a Linksys WCF11
card. Something is wrong and I am not seeing a wlan0 interface come up.
And let me qualify this by saying I have read the both the FAQ and the manual.
And will, if I determine the problem and the solution add them to the Wiki. I
do have the wifi tools installed (iwconfig and the like).
My hardware:
Zaurus 3100c
Linksys WCF11 Wireless CF Card
I carefully followed the installation instructions from the Wiki. (did it
twice just to be sure it wasn't something I skipped).
When I plug in the card and do a "ifconfig -a" it doesn't show an interface for
wlan0.
So I did an lsmod, and hostap_cs wasn't there so I did a "modprobe hostap_cs"
followed by an "lsmod", relevant output is:
hostap_cs 55700 0
hostap 108612 1 hostap_cs
ieee80211_crypt 4864 1 hostap
At this point I pulled and reinserted the card, checking dmesg after I did so:
<7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
<6>hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
<5>pccard: card ejected from slot 1
<5>pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
<5>pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
Still no wlan0 interface.
So obviously I am missing something. A few web searches turned up some clues.
I've tried the following:
I ran "pccardctl ident" and got this output:
[---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Socket 1:
product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Wireless Network CF Card",
"ISL37300P", "RevA"
manfid: 0x0274, 0x3301
function: 6 (network)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
Created a file named /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf which contains (I tried this
with and without the version line):
[---------------------------- /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf
-----------------------------------------
card "Linksys WCF11"
version "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Wireless Network CF Card", "ISL37300P",
"RevA"
manfid 0x0274, 0x3301
bind "hostap_cs"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
Rebooted, still no wlan0 - hmmm
I tried setting up a /etc/modutils/hostap_cs.conf file as well and doing an
"update-modules":
I tried several things here, none of which were acceptable to update-modules.
I went ahead and pre-setup my /etc/network/interfaces file as shown (note the
key is garbled):
[---------------------------- /etc/network/interfaces
------------------------------
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid TBAYNEWIFI
wireless_key AAAD4D2AAAAAAA1865AAAAAE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
So while I am sure I am doing something wrong, I have no idea what it might be.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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