Just a quick question but do you have the firmware for the card installed? I don't know if debian includes it or not with their driver, but you may need to setup the firmware:
http://prism54.org/firmware/ This could cause the problems you are seeing. -David On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:49, Brian McCullough wrote: > --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > All, > > I have been re-reading the recent messages regarding 802.11 use and > have, I thought, followed everything that was relevant to my situation, > but still have some funny behaviour ( and a lack of communication! ). > > > I have a Netgear MR814 v2 access point, and the laptop has an SMC 2835W, > which seems to be liked by the built-in Prism 54 driver in my Debian > 2.6.8 kernel. > > I have found that I can configure the Netgear box by physically > connecting the laptop to one of the LAN ports, and so have changed the > IP address ( my internal LAN is 192.168.1. ) because the default > 192.168.0.1 was not compatible with the environment. So far, so good. I > then changed the ESSID, and left WEP off ( for now ). I also changed > the default channel 11 to 9. > > My reading seemed to indicate that the Netgear wanted to be the DHCP > server for anything connecting on the wireless port, so I assigned a few > addresses and enabled that. > > I then went to the laptop and, following the instructions given in a > message in my archives, did the following: > > ifconfig eth0 down > iwconfig eth0 essid my_essid channel 9 key off > ifconfig eth0 up > > Unfortunately, when I issue "dhcpd eth0", I get "no such command". In > network/interfaces, I have included "iface eth0 inet dhcp" ( working > =66rom memory, so may have mis-spelled something ). > > When the wired card is plugged in to the laptop and into the Netgear, an > address is assigned to eth0. > > When I connect wirelessly, funny things happen. > > I issue the ifconfig down command and neither ifconfig nor iwconfig show > anything for eth0. I issue the iwconfig command and ESSID and channel > are as set. I issue the ifconfig up command and both lights on the SMC > card flash in varying ways. I check ifconfig and iwconfig and find that > ifconfig does not have an address and iwconfig, each time that I issue > it, reports a different frequency and no ESSID. > > Where do I go from here? > > > Thank you, > Brian > > > > --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ-- > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- David A. Cafaro dac(at)trilug.org Admin to User: "You did what!?!?!" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
