kala mazoo wrote: > 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'...
The zeros in the signal level is a minor problem that is not severe enough for anyone to spend time fixing. Please ignore it for now. The fact that you see the AP's MAC address implies association, and the presence of the encryption key means that it has authenticated. Everything looks normal. > 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 "sortta"? This is _exactly_ what you should see. > What is the purpose of the wmaster0 interface, and when does it get used? > Issuing 'ifconfig' returns ; With mac80211, multiple interfaces of multiple types are supported. The master controller for all of these is 'wmaster0'. It is always there, but you can ignore it. > 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) Was this IP address obtained by DHCP or did you manually assign it? If the former, then all is working in the Linux box. In either case, I would look to problems with the Windoze setup. Their wizards make everything look deceptively simple, but often it doesn't work. In addition, make sure that all firewalls are off until you get it working. Then turn them back on separately on both ends and fix any problems that turn up. What does a 'route' command show on the Linux box? Can the Linux box ping localhost? If the answer is yes, what does 'ping 192.168.1.123' show? Finally ping the default gateway shown in the route command output. If that works, your Linux box is doing exactly what it should. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
