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mrmarley

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,21:24

Hi everyone!

After I spend 2 days trying to setup my wlan pcmcia card, I hope you guys in the forum can help me.
First I hope that DSL will detect the card automatically, but that did not work.
So I tried to get it to work through madwifi(no wifi0 is created, the wlanconfig said: "No such device") and ndiswrapper, that did not work, too.
So you are my last hope

My Hardware:
IBM Thinkpad 380z
300 mbz, 64 mb RAM
and an Atheros Wlan Card plugged into the pc card slot.

The Info of the PCMCIA Tool say:
PRODID_1="Atheros Communication, Inc."
PRODID_2="AR5001-0000-0000"
PRODID_3="Wireless LAN Reference Card"
PRODID_4="00"
MANFID=0271,0012
FUNCID=6

Windows XP accept the Card and work like a charm(with the driver installed).

Thank you for help ;)

Onyarian

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,22:11

My Atheros pcmcia works perfect.

It works with madwifi-ng embeded in DSL 3.2, you don't need ndiswrapper. It's recognice as ath0 (no wifi0).

type:
iwconfig
you see: eth0 no wireless extensions
lo no wireless extensions
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
etc...

type:
sudo ifconfig ath0 up
iwlist ath0 scan (this gives you information of the access point)
sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "blablabla" (type the essid of the access point)

now the next depends if you connect with or without DHCP
I make it without DHCP:
sudo ifconfig ath0 <my IP adress> netmask <netmask> up
sudo route add default gw <my gateway address>

now the next depends if you connect with WEP encryption
sudo iwconfig ath0 key <wep key in hex> or
sudo iwconfig ath0 key <"s:ASCII string of key">

and that's all for my conection, it works perfectly.

To connect after a boot, I have nade a file .sh with all this instructions and with an icon on desktop. So when I want to connect I click on this icon and RUN.

OK?

mrmarley

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,22:30

Hi!
First thank you for the very fast reply!
When i type "iwconfig" in the console only the loopback device is detected
"lo no wireless extensiones"
thats why i mess around with ndiswrapper and the madwifi thing as uci.

roberts

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,23:56

mrmarley, what version of DSL are run running?
madwifi was upgraded in v3.2. Please try v3.2

mrmarley

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Posted: Jan. 24 2007,20:48

Hi again!
I use dsl-3.2 but the card is not usable.
I type iwconfig and only
"lo no wireless extensiones" appears...
But in the PCMCIA tool the card is present, so what can i do?

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