Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Bernie Gardner <bernie.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this was discussed a few weeks ago and I have tried to follow
previous advice, but I can't seem to get my linksys WPC-11 wireless
network card to work in SuSE 8.0.  It was working in 7.3 with and still
works in windows on the same computer so I know it's not a hardware
problem.  I have temporarily disabled the encryption on the wireless
hub, so the problem is not in the encryption.  I have included the
output of ifconfig and the relevant section of /var/log/messages. 
Running dhcpcd manually results in a time-out error. I would appreciate
any advice (and maybe an explanation of why SuSE apparently changed the
pcmcia setting files, included the drivers for wireless interface cards,
and yet provides absolutely no documentation on how to use them!)

Thanks

Bernie
w1az@xxxxxxxx




ifconfig output
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:7576 (7.3 Kb)  TX bytes:7576 (7.3 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:25:01:F1:AA
          inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe01:f1aa/10 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100



entry in /var/log/messages on insertion of card:

Jun  1 06:45:38 owen cardmgr[536]: socket 0: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b
WLAN Card (Prism 2.5)
Jun  1 06:45:38 owen cardmgr[536]: executing: 'insmod -v
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB//pcmcia-external/prism2_cs.o'
Jun  1 06:45:38 owen kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.13-devel1
Loaded
Jun  1 06:45:38 owen kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs
Jun  1 06:45:38 owen cardmgr[536]: + Using
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB//pcmcia-external/prism2_cs.o
Jun  1 06:45:38 owen cardmgr[536]: + Symbol version prefix ''
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen cardmgr[536]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io
0x0100-0x013f
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: hfa384x_corereset: hfa384x_corereset not
supported on pcmcia. Use driver services COR access function instead
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: ident: nic h/w: id=0x800c 1.0.0
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.0.4
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.0.3
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=1/3
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/6
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel:
PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel:
STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x02:b/t=1/1
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel:
STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen kernel: Prism2 card SN: 99SA01000000
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen cardmgr[536]: + usage: ./network [action] [device
name]
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen cardmgr[536]: +   actions: start check stop suspend
resume
Jun  1 06:45:39 owen cardmgr[536]: + Device <wlan0> not found in stab
Jun  1 06:45:40 owen kernel: p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt
prior to association, frame dropped.
Jun  1 06:45:45 owen last message repeated 2 times
Jun  1 06:45:47 owen /etc/hotplug/net.agent[1551]: No HW description
found ... exiting
Jun  1 06:45:49 owen kernel: p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit: Tx attempt
prior to association, frame dropped.