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> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:18:02 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: More on ASUS WL-138G V2
> CC: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 2.6.18 doesn't support 4318. Try 2.6.22 or 2.6.23 if you want proper
> functionality. However, it would be good if you tried 2.6.24, 2.6.25 or
> wireless-dev (with>new>firmware, of course), as we are having extreme
> problems with it, and you (from AU, which is outside of the US - what
> channels can you use in AU?) can help>debug it.
>
Hello again,
Well, things have moved along a bit here -- nothing works,
but it all looks like it wants to...
Upgraded to 2.6.24, now using b43 driver + debug on
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong....anyhow, the background realm consists of
my son's XP box, running one of the same cards with the asus proprietary
drivers + config frontend, and is setup in so called 'softAP' mode instead of
'station' mode, I'm telling it channel 1...and no additional encryption (which
I hope infers WEP only encryption), it's network IP is set on 192.168.1.0/24
space, and as far as the blowz' box is concerned, everything it's end is
hunky-dory. Except it can't seemingly see this machine at all...
....on this linux end (and being all new to this), I'm not sure if what I'm
seeing is actually correct. For instance ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"dfg"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1B:FC:61:19:58
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:1122-3344-55
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
...the AP Mac is that of the XP box -- I didn't expect to see 'Link Quality:0
Signal level:0 Noise level:0'...
Looking at the same situation from another point of view....;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:FC:61:19:58
ESSID:"dfg"
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=73/100 Signal level=-15 dBm Noise level=-52 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000004c4c6c18b
....and I'll convince myself that sortta looks correct...but shouldn't the
link/signal/noise stats have appeared in the output of iwconfig? Why are they
not?
What is the purpose of the wmaster0 interface, and when does it get used?
Issuing 'ifconfig' returns ;
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:FC:61:15:E1
inet addr:192.168.1.123 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-1B-FC-61-15-E1-0A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
...and I've no idea if that's correct, whether wmaster0 has to be ifconfigured
or not, or indeed whether wlan0 has to be bridged or not, because I'm having
trouble finding any good, new, recent documentation about some of this stuff...
All the zeros are correct - as far as XP and this box are concerned, there is
no route to either host
...I'm seeing a lot of this in dmesg....
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
b43-phy0 debug: RX: Packet dropped
....and 2.6.24 breaks lircd-0.8.2 so my IR remote control is lame (^;
....am I doing something wrong here, or am I seeing 'the problem'?
Regards,
Donald
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