Hello,
first I have to say, that I post the same question in alt.os.linux.gentoo.
Sorry for cross posting. I hope anyone of you can help me solving my
problem. Thx.
I have bought a D-Link DWL-G650 108MBit PCMCIA-Wireless lan card. I have an
Acer Travelmate 524tx. I want to use this card to connect to a wireless lan
at home.
The card has an Atheros chipset. So I have installed the madwifi driver.
First I jave tried to connect to the wireless lan over WPA-PSK. I did not
connect. Then I have tried to connect to an open wireless lan. There I was
successful but the I can't send or receive any data.
A ping to the router returns the error message, that there are wrong data
byte.
I have figured out that the used PCMCIA-Card chipset (O2 Micro OZ6933 /
711E1) of the Acer Travelmate 524 TX might be not compatible to the Atheros
chipset (or the used driver etc.).
I tried to use madwifi and ndiswrapper. Both did not work.
Can anyone help me?
Has anyone accompished to get the card on this cardbus chipset running?
Anyone an idea what I can do further?
Here I give you some more detailed information. I hope, this are enough. If
it is not, tell me what more information you want.
After putting the pcmcia card into the pcmcia slot lspci give me this
information:
======================= lspci ==============================================
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1621 (rev 05)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link
Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin
IV]
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
100] (rev 08)
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:13.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1
CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:13.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1
CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility
P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Then I start the wireless card by calling /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start. From
this I get the following informations:
============== net.ath0 start ==============================================
Starting ath0
Loading networking modules for ath0
modules: iwconfig essidnet iptunnel ifconfig dhcpcd apipa
iwconfig provides wireless
ifconfig provides interface
dhcpcd provides dhcp
Configuring wireless network for ath0
Connecting to "mcrhomenet" (WEP Disabled) ... ok
ath0 connected to "mcrhomenet" at 00:11:95:07:7B:AC
in managed mode (WEP disabled)
Configuring ath0 for "mcrhomenet" ... ok
Bringing up ath0
dhcp
Running dhcpcd ... ok
ath0 received address 192.168.123.100
After this both leds on the pcmcia blinks in time with each other.
Now I try to ping the wireless access point (192.168.123.1)
=============== ping 192.168.123.1 =========================================
PING 192.168.123.1 (192.168.123.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=127 time=0.167 ms
wrong data byte #12 should be 0xc but was 0x0
#8 8 9 a b 0 0 0 0 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20
21 22
23 24 25 26 27
#40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 0 0 0 0
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=127 time=1.05 ms
wrong data byte #20 should be 0x14 but was 0x0
#8 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 0 0 0 0 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22
23
24 25 26 27
#40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=127 time=1.01 ms
wrong data byte #20 should be 0x14 but was 0x7f
#8 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 7f 1 1 0 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21
22 23
24 25 26 27
#40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=127 time=0.169 ms
wrong data byte #28 should be 0x1c but was 0xc
#8 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b c 0 3 7f 20 21
22 23
24 25 26 27
#40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=127 time=1.01 ms
wrong data byte #52 should be 0x34 but was 0x11
#8 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20
21 22
23 24 25 26 27
#40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 11 95 7 7b
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=127 time=22.0 ms
wrong data byte #12 should be 0xc but was 0x12
#8 8 9 a b 12 24 60 6c 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27
#40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 11 95 7 7b
64 bytes from 192.168.123.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=127 time=0.999 ms
[...]
--- 192.168.123.1 ping statistics ---
36 packets transmitted, 18 received, 50% packet loss, time 35011ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.153/3.392/23.551/6.887 ms
Here you see the error message: wrong data byte.
I tried to ping www.google.de. But I did not get any message.
At least I give you the information ifconfig and iwconfig give me:
=============== ifconfig ===================================================
ath0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:0F:3D:AB:77:DA
inet Adresse:192.168.123.100 Bcast:192.168.123.255
Maske:255.255.255.0
inet6 Adresse: fe80::20f:3dff:feab:77da/64
Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:143 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:199
RX bytes:35678 (34.8 Kb) TX bytes:7064 (6.8 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Speicher:d8d80000-d8d90000
================ iwconfig ==================================================
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"mcrhomenet" Nickname:"mcrhomenet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:11:95:07:7B:AC
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=43/94 Signal level=-52 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
And this modules are loaded:
================= lsmod ====================================================
Module Size Used by
ath_pci 53888 0
ath_rate_onoe 7016 1 ath_pci
wlan 108988 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal 146864 2 ath_pci
pcmcia 19304 4
yenta_socket 20008 3
rsrc_nonstatic 7360 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 41892 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
battery 8164 0
processor 18612 0
ac 3300 0
button 4848 0
e100 32000 0
========================================================================
At the very end I give you some paramters of my kernel-configuration:
CONFIG_PCMCIA=m
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
CONFIG_YENTA=m
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y
I hope these information are enough for you to help me.
Best regards Christian
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