Mandrake 8.1 and Orinoco Gold - Page 2

03-25-2002

Slackware got it's chance, and lost.
I'm back to mandrake 8.2 and all I want now is a 'set up the damn router and internet sharing for dummies'
The cards seems to work fine, it's something else thats disturbing the hole thing.
I know I have contact with my ISP with the wlan card, but WHY don't the mandrake system accept it?

03-25-2002

I just upgraded to 8.2 and it broke my PCMCIA availability. I was hoping to kismet-stumble this weekend but no........... Even compiling and installing pcmcia_cs from scratch did no good. Did anyone else go from 8.1 to 8.2 and have it work?

-SAU

03-25-2002

is your kernel compiled with wireless extensions enabled? (check for /proc/net/wireless). if not you have to recompile your kernel with that enabled by uncommenting the CONFIG_NET_RADIO in the kernel config.

then you can go ahead and apply your prefered schmoo patch to the pcmcia-cs wireless dir and rerun the configuration deal and recompile the modules. if you choose the pf_netlink patch you will prolly need to compile linux-wlan-ng to get the wlanng-ctl utility or the orinocoSniff.c util to drop it into promisc mode before you start kismet.

personaly I am using the pf_packet patch and then manualy applied portions of one of the older wavestumbler patches directly to the driver to enable the /proc/hermes/dev/cmd stuff because it will monitor all the channels for new aps instead of just one. I can then drop the card in promisc mode when i want to zero in on one channel and view the packets directly in any pcap aware program on the fly with iwpriv

either way you need to make sure it installed the module into the modules dir when you make install and that the kernel is loading the orinoco_cs driver instead of say the mwavelan_cs driver. if you have pcmcia or any of the internal kernel modules enabled the pcmcia-cs package prolly wont bother to install them unless you cd to the wireless dir and make install manualy

slackware 8.0
kernel 2.4.18,
pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 (orinoco_cs 0.09b)
wireless extensions v12
wireless_tools.23
libpcap-current

orinoco gold firmware 6.18 or so... i had to downgrade to make it work it promisc mode

hope some of that helps someone or another...

03-26-2002

I now reinstalled my laptop instead of the upgreade (didn't loose much) and now it works (sort of). For some reason the upgrade messed up my wireless networking ability so my choice was live with it or reinstall.

I now have wireless running again but now things like kismet are broke. To fix that I got the latest libpcap and compiled it but it didn't produce the needed shared object files. I created those today with the help of a HOWTO file. Kistmet runs but it doesn't function.

I previously chose to upgrade because I had heard that the newest kernels (>=2.4.16) were more wireless friendly than the older ones. But since I had lots of trouble with them (compiling and getting them to boot) and MDK 8.2 just got released and it had a new (2.4.18) kernel, I jumped on the upgrade. I wasted several days trying to get that going and several more hours on libpcap and kismet.

Long story.... be content with what you have. If it doesn't work now, upgrading to get to to work better may or may not help. I'm not a limux newbie and I still find myself lost in a sea of libraries and c code that others hack together to make semi-stable, semi-reliable software.

To end this silly (long) post. Now I lost my Orinoco Gold card I did all this for. I still have my company assigned cisco WiFi card.

03-27-2002

Zero,
I am going to install slackware on my old laptop and see if I can get it up an configured. Can you tell me which software packages you used to get it running and configured with your cards?
Thanks
johnmac

03-25-2002	#16 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Back to mandrake Slackware got it's chance, and lost. I'm back to mandrake 8.2 and all I want now is a 'set up the damn router and internet sharing for dummies' The cards seems to work fine, it's something else thats disturbing the hole thing. I know I have contact with my ISP with the wlan card, but WHY don't the mandrake system accept it?

03-25-2002	#17 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	MDK 8.2 bummer I just upgraded to 8.2 and it broke my PCMCIA availability. I was hoping to kismet-stumble this weekend but no........... Even compiling and installing pcmcia_cs from scratch did no good. Did anyone else go from 8.1 to 8.2 and have it work? -SAU

03-26-2002	#19 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	laptop redux I now reinstalled my laptop instead of the upgreade (didn't loose much) and now it works (sort of). For some reason the upgrade messed up my wireless networking ability so my choice was live with it or reinstall. I now have wireless running again but now things like kismet are broke. To fix that I got the latest libpcap and compiled it but it didn't produce the needed shared object files. I created those today with the help of a HOWTO file. Kistmet runs but it doesn't function. I previously chose to upgrade because I had heard that the newest kernels (>=2.4.16) were more wireless friendly than the older ones. But since I had lots of trouble with them (compiling and getting them to boot) and MDK 8.2 just got released and it had a new (2.4.18) kernel, I jumped on the upgrade. I wasted several days trying to get that going and several more hours on libpcap and kismet. Long story.... be content with what you have. If it doesn't work now, upgrading to get to to work better may or may not help. I'm not a limux newbie and I still find myself lost in a sea of libraries and c code that others hack together to make semi-stable, semi-reliable software. To end this silly (long) post. Now I lost my Orinoco Gold card I did all this for. I still have my company assigned cisco WiFi card.

03-27-2002	#20 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	ZeroBreka, Slackware question Zero, I am going to install slackware on my old laptop and see if I can get it up an configured. Can you tell me which software packages you used to get it running and configured with your cards? Thanks johnmac

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03-25-2002	#18 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	is your kernel compiled with wireless extensions enabled? (check for /proc/net/wireless). if not you have to recompile your kernel with that enabled by uncommenting the CONFIG_NET_RADIO in the kernel config. then you can go ahead and apply your prefered schmoo patch to the pcmcia-cs wireless dir and rerun the configuration deal and recompile the modules. if you choose the pf_netlink patch you will prolly need to compile linux-wlan-ng to get the wlanng-ctl utility or the orinocoSniff.c util to drop it into promisc mode before you start kismet. personaly I am using the pf_packet patch and then manualy applied portions of one of the older wavestumbler patches directly to the driver to enable the /proc/hermes/dev/cmd stuff because it will monitor all the channels for new aps instead of just one. I can then drop the card in promisc mode when i want to zero in on one channel and view the packets directly in any pcap aware program on the fly with iwpriv either way you need to make sure it installed the module into the modules dir when you make install and that the kernel is loading the orinoco_cs driver instead of say the mwavelan_cs driver. if you have pcmcia or any of the internal kernel modules enabled the pcmcia-cs package prolly wont bother to install them unless you cd to the wireless dir and make install manualy slackware 8.0 kernel 2.4.18, pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 (orinoco_cs 0.09b) wireless extensions v12 wireless_tools.23 libpcap-current orinoco gold firmware 6.18 or so... i had to downgrade to make it work it promisc mode hope some of that helps someone or another...