Hi,
I'm halfway through installing debian (potato) on a IBM Thinkpad 390.
All has gone well to this point but now I need the network to get
packages, and all I have is a SMC2632W wireless lan card.
The potato PCMCIA setup recognized the card and loaded the wvlan_cs
driver. I downloaded a copy of the wireless-tools to configure the card,
and that seems to work too. IE, after boot (or /etc/init.d/pcmcia
restart) ifconfig shows the card configured, as does iwconfig.
The default route has been installed properly too.
But pings to other machines just time out (no errors). The only other
symptoms of failure are an error message from the wvlan_cs driver (which
does not seem fatal) and the fact that no device file (/dev/eth0)
is created.
Here is the dmesg output:
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22
kernel build: 2.2.19pre17 unknown
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf80
00:03.0 -> irq 11
00:03.1 -> irq 11
Intel PCIC probe:
TI 1250A rev 02 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:03, mem 0x8000000
host opts [0]: [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34]
host opts [1]: [pci + serial irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37]
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,7,9,10 PCI status changes
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f
0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
wvlan_cs: WaveLAN/IEEE PCMCIA driver v1.0.5
wvlan_cs: (c) Andreas Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wvlan_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0180-0x01bf
wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth0
wvlan_cs: Firmware return ``first'' = 0x0006, please report...
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 e0 29 9e 53 51
wvlan_cs: Firmware return ``first'' = 0x0006, please report...
wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 e0 29 9e 53 51
And iwconfig:
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"trombla" Nickname:"rover"
Frequency:2.437GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
Access Point: 00:90:4B:08:30:28
Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:ABCD-EABC-DE
Power Management:off
Link quality:13/92 Signal level:-89 dBm Noise level:-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:1
(names changed to protect the paranoid). All this seems correct (the AP
MAC address is right, for instance. And the led on the card is steady
amber, indicating a solid connection.
Here is ifconfig's output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:9E:53:51
inet addr:192.168.123.3 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x180
Note that there are some TX packets (from my ping attempts), but nothing
ever comes back.
I'm stuck! Any ideas ?
Thanks very much for any help you can give,
Alan
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