Hi, hope this is the right list to see who has WISP working with PLX cards?
I'm just starting out on the LRP/WISP. I am assisting someone in building a wireless Acess Point, with some added functionality. WISP looks like an ideal starting point as they want to squeeze the whole thing into 64MB Compact flash cards. A few hours in to learning LEAF with the latest version of WISP the PC boots from compact flash, wlan0 appears to be recognised as a card, the hostap_plx module is loaded, boot shows an "iwconfig wlan0 mode master" when master mode is selected (and similar - "ctrl-s" is a god send). I can make and save config changes to compact flash no problem. However I can't make the Linksys card work as a wireless card, either as plain vanilla "ad-hoc" networking with my home wireless network (you were wondering why they asked me to help, well I've done quite a bit of wireless networking), or in master mode. In ad-hoc mode no wireless packets are exchanged, in master mode, the clients don't discover the access point. Looks like this functionality only just went into WISP. The card uses the PLX PCMCIA adaptor, with standard Linksys Wireless cards (ver 3). Alas my spare PCMCIA adaptor cards are all ISA, so at the moment I don't have a lot of hardware options to try out. Is anyone successfully using these cards in WISP? With the Linksys adaptor or with i82365 ? I can not ping the cards own IP address. What diagnostic tools are available? Have I missed something basic? Syslog doesn't show anything obvious. I don't have much experience with wlan-ng or the hostap_plx adaptors having used pcmcia_cs and proprietary access points previously. However the PLX card work with Redhat 8 out of the box (although I've had more errors than I usually get with wireless cards) if you do a "modprobe orinoco_plx", and "iwconfig eth1", on the same PC, so looks like it is a driver issue with this specific wireless network card, rather than hardware. I assume the one or two "[" errors on booting are "normal" and due to some stray tests in start up scripts that haven't been removed yet. I'll probably go try the wlan-ng drivers under Redhat 8, to figure out if these drivers actually work as advertised on this hardware, but welcome any hints on what to try. Having 32MB FAT and 32MB ext partitions, I can probably add a fair few extra packages above normal if it will help diagnosing or fixing problems. Anyway my clients interesting choice of Wireless cards aside, the WISP looks like a great piece of work, and I have other projects in the pipeline that will benefit from starting with the WISP configuration. Simon PS: Can anyone recommend a good book on LRP? Sure I saw one a few months back, but every bookshop pleads ignorance. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Leaf-hardware mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-hardware
