This has had me going for a few weeks now!
I'm running Debian unstable on a Dell Latitude C600 with an inbuilt
3COM NIC which comes up as eth0. No problems there in setting up the
network.
I plug in a Cisco 350 wireless PCMCI card. I've got the Cisco
utilities to set up LEAP authentication after which I get "Associated"
so the card is working just fine I think, looking at
/proc/drivers/aironet/eth1/Status
I do iwconfig and I see both eth1 and wifi0:
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lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"XXXX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0C:CE:85:7C:E7
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:11/10 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:910 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2905 Missed beacon:0
wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"nexus"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0C:CE:85:7C:E7
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:11/10 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:910 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2905 Missed beacon:0
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First off I don't understand why I have both eth1 and wifi0 - seem the
same?
Anyhow I put the following into /etc/network/interface:
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iface wifi0 inet static
address 152.83.74.14
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 152.83.74.255
gateway 152.83.74.177
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Then "ifup wifi0" and I see in ifconfig:
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wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-0B-FD-57-78-99-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:125.83.74.14 Bcast:125.83.74.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1
RX packets:96 errors:864 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:864
TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:8995 (8.7 KiB) TX bytes:954 (954.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
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Looks okay but I can't seem to get to the network. Ping to IP
addresses just sits there!
If instead I ifup eth1 then the machine hangs within a few minutes :-(
Any ideas?
Thanks
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