NICs & modems
Brian Reichert
> I have been known to be passable intelligent from time to time, but I am running into a serious wall here... First off, I have read almost every posting that I can lay my grubby hands on and still I have been unsuccesful at getting my Orinco Wavelan card to run.
Is your card Silver or Gold?
> I am running the 4.2 of the kernel on a Compaq Armada M700. I know the card works, because I pulled it out of my Toshiba laptop running under Linux.
I have gotten my gold card to work w/o a htich on my laptop, running 4.1.1.
> I can ifconfig the card, but I am unable to get it to communicate. If I set it to mode 1, both lights go out. If it is set to mode 3, one light flashes, but still nothing. This is driving me to drink!
Are you using WEP? How many bits? Do you have the netkey right?
> Also, any one using the Novatel Merlin wireless modem on the Ricochet network? Any pointers woulkd be greatly appreciated... Especially in the way of what the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf looks like.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim Callis
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Kim C. Callis
From: "Brian Reichert" <reic...@numachi.com>
To: "Kim C. Callis" <kca...@c2associates.net>
Cc: <freebsd...@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: NICs & modems
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:12:15PM -0700, Kim C. Callis wrote:
> > I have been known to be passable intelligent from time to time, but I am
running into a serious wall here... First off, I have read almost every
posting that I can lay my grubby hands on and still I have been unsuccesful
at getting my Orinco Wavelan card to run.
>
> Is your card Silver or Gold?
It is the Gold
>
> > I am running the 4.2 of the kernel on a Compaq Armada M700. I know the
card works, because I pulled it out of my Toshiba laptop running under
Linux.
>
> I have gotten my gold card to work w/o a htich on my laptop, running
4.1.1.
>
> > I can ifconfig the card, but I am unable to get it to communicate. If I
set it to mode 1, both lights go out. If it is set to mode 3, one light
flashes, but still nothing. This is driving me to drink!
>
> Are you using WEP? How many bits? Do you have the netkey right?
WEP is enabled with a 10 character hex key which is correct. The same key
functions for all of our linux laptops. And I double checked it on the
Airport which is providing our point to point.
Darryl Okahata
> > > I can ifconfig the card, but I am unable to get it to communicate. If I
> set it to mode 1, both lights go out. If it is set to mode 3, one light
> flashes, but still nothing. This is driving me to drink!
[ ... ]
> WEP is enabled with a 10 character hex key which is correct. The same key
> functions for all of our linux laptops. And I double checked it on the
> Airport which is providing our point to point.
If you're using an Apple Airport, you must use BSS mode (mode 1);
mode 3 is ad-hoc mode, which does not and cannot communicate with access
points like the Airport.
Unless you void the warranty, the Airport can only handle 40-bit
encryption. Make sure your keys are short enough. Also, make sure that
you've enabled encryption; setting the encryption key does not enable
encryption (it just sets the key). And make sure that you've selected
the correct key (of the four possible keys), if encryption is enabled.
Is the network name correct? It's got to match the network name on
the Airport (unless you set it to "ANY", I believe).
Is the channel correct?
See the wicontrol man page for more information.
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Andresen,Jason R.
Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> "Kim C. Callis" <kca...@c2associates.net> wrote:
>
> > > > I can ifconfig the card, but I am unable to get it to communicate. If I
> > set it to mode 1, both lights go out. If it is set to mode 3, one light
> > flashes, but still nothing. This is driving me to drink!
> [ ... ]
> > WEP is enabled with a 10 character hex key which is correct. The same key
> > functions for all of our linux laptops. And I double checked it on the
> > Airport which is providing our point to point.
>
> If you're using an Apple Airport, you must use BSS mode (mode 1);
> mode 3 is ad-hoc mode, which does not and cannot communicate with access
> points like the Airport.
>
> Unless you void the warranty, the Airport can only handle 40-bit
> encryption. Make sure your keys are short enough. Also, make sure that
> you've enabled encryption; setting the encryption key does not enable
> encryption (it just sets the key). And make sure that you've selected
> the correct key (of the four possible keys), if encryption is enabled.
>
> Is the network name correct? It's got to match the network name on
> the Airport (unless you set it to "ANY", I believe).
>
> Is the channel correct?
>
> See the wicontrol man page for more information.
Also, even if you drop the encryption stregth, can a Gold card
communicate
with a Silver Card (found in the Airport)? I thought the Gold card used
a different encryption scheme that was incompatabile with the standard
scheme that the Silver card uses.
Have you tried turning off encryption at both the card and the base
station?
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David Wolfskill
>From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jand...@mitre.org>
>Also, even if you drop the encryption stregth, can a Gold card
>communicate
>with a Silver Card (found in the Airport)? I thought the Gold card used
>a different encryption scheme that was incompatabile with the standard
>scheme that the Silver card uses.
I routinely use a Cisco Aironet 340-series card (that is capable of
"128-bit" (112 bits significant, if I recall correctly; what's at issue
for this discussion is that it is >40 bits) WEP with an Apple Airport.
I use it with WEP enabled, for that matter -- I just limit the key
length on the Aironet card.
Cheers,
david
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Kim C. Callis
pccardd[53]: Card "Lucent Technologies"("WaveLAN/IEEE")
[Version 01.01] matched "Lucent Technologies" ("WaveLAN/IEEE") [(null)]
[(null)]
pccardd[53]: Failed to allocate IRQ for Lucent Technologies
When I do a dmsg | grep pcic0 I get the following
pcic0: <VLSI 82C146> at port 0x3e0 irq 10 on isa 0
pcic0: mamagement 10
pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0
pccard1: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0
I thought maybe cleaning up the /etc/defaults/pccard.conf would make things
a little better. I changed the memory location and removed some of the irq,
and still nothing.
Any suggestions?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl Okahata" <dar...@soco.agilent.com>
To: "Kim C. Callis" <kca...@c2associates.net>
Cc: "Brian Reichert" <reic...@numachi.com>; <freebsd...@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: NICs & modems
Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:40:56 -0700
> Sender: owner-free...@FreeBSD.ORG
>
> I am getting the following message when inserting the Wavelan
>
> pccardd[53]: Card "Lucent Technologies"("WaveLAN/IEEE")
> [Version 01.01] matched "Lucent Technologies" ("WaveLAN/IEEE") [(null)]
> [(null)]
> pccardd[53]: Failed to allocate IRQ for Lucent Technologies
>
> When I do a dmsg | grep pcic0 I get the following
>
> pcic0: <VLSI 82C146> at port 0x3e0 irq 10 on isa 0
> pcic0: mamagement 10
> pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0
> pccard1: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0
>
> I thought maybe cleaning up the /etc/defaults/pccard.conf would make things
> a little better. I changed the memory location and removed some of the irq,
> and still nothing.
>
> Any suggestions?
This looks a lot like an IRQ problem. Look for available IRQs by
grepping dmesg for the string "irq" and from vmstat -i. There will be
VERY few available. Eliminate 2 and 13 which, I am told by people more
expert than I, are never available. Then edit /etc/pccard.confg to
start with the line:
irq 3 8 9 (or whatever you think is available.)
You might be able to free up IRQs by eliminating devices your don't
need (like extra serial ports or an unused parallel port). The most
likely are 8, 9, and 10. If you turn off the parallel port, that
should free up 7. Sound cards on laptops may be in a LOT of different
places. Mine is at 5. If your pcic is using an IRQ, it probably uses
10.
Good luck,
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: obe...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Kim C. Callis
interrupt total rate
ata0 irq14 1670 0
mux irq 11 1333 0
fdc0 irq6 2 0
atkbd0 irq1 295 0
pcic0 irq10 3 0
clk irq0 1308574 127
rtc irq8 1674932 228
valiant# dmesg | grep irq
pci1: <ATI Mobility-1 graphics accelerator> irq 11
pcic-pci0: <TI PCI-1450 PCI-Cardbus Bridge> irq 11
pcic-pci1: <TI PCI Config Reg> irq 11
pcic-pci1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: irq 14
ata0: irq 14
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB Controller> irq 11
chip2: <ESS Technology Maestro 2E Audio controller> irq 11
fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> irq 11
pci0: <unknown card> irq 11
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12
sio0: irq 4
sio1: irq 3
pcic0: <VLSI 82C146> irq 10 on isa0
pcic0: management irq 10
ppc0: <Parallel Port> irq 7
That is basically it right there... So I am at a loss because there is
nothing conflicting with irq 10 (as far as I can see), yet the message comes
back unable to allocate.
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From: "Kevin Oberman" <obe...@es.net>
To: "Kim C. Callis" <kca...@c2associates.net>
Cc: <freebsd...@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: NICs & modems
Darryl Okahata
> nothing conflicting with irq 10 (as far as I can see), yet the message comes
> back unable to allocate.
No, the pcic device (PCMCIA controller) uses an IRQ (IRQ 10, in
your case), but the Wavelan card *ALSO* needs an IRQ. Your problem is
that the Wavelan driver (wi0) cannot allocate an IRQ for the card.
Looking at your list, you *might* be able to use IRQ 5 (you should
really post a complete dmesg), but locating a free IRQ can be difficult,
due to quirks in various laptops (sorry, I'm not familiar with
Compaqs).
Also, you might try putting the pcic device in polling mode (not
using IRQ 10), and then using IRQ 10 for the card. However, I believe
this is not always possible, due to laptop quirks (I seem to recall that
some laptops insist on always using IRQ 10 for the PCMCIA controller).
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