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Re: [wlug] Wireless TCP/IP
by Bill Rosoman 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

How can you "see" the AP? (ie, how are you trying to observe it) Have you given it an IP address in the same subnet as your network cards? Wireless Ad-Hoc PC to Notepad ----------------------------- Usng PC Windows ME Zyxel USB Wlan Dell Notepad; The wifi card's a Netgear WG511. www.netgear.com I have a Dell Notepad Inspiron 2650 Intel Chip running Mandrake 10 KDE 3.2 Kernel 2.6.3-7mdk To get wlan up ============== Setup Windows PC using manual IP 192.168.0.1 mask 255.255.255.0 wifi Ad-Hoc chanel 6 Run USB Wifi Linux as SU (root) kedit /etc/wlan/wlancfg-deb1 kedit /etc/modules.conf alias eth1 prism54 ifconfig eth1 inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 route add default gw 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth1 iwconfig eth1 ESSID "deb1" mode ad-hoc channel 6 /etc/pcmcia/network start eth1 Outcome ======= Have a strong connection between computers But cannot access computers or internet No IP address No Ping etc if I reboot using LAN everything OK (Samba, Internet) Results ------- Windows machine netstat shows nothing active ping 192.168.0.5 times out ping 192.168.0.1 excellent Linux machine apradar result eth1 Scan completed : NEW AP from accesspoint scan essid.length 4 ESSID:"deb1" Mode:Ad-Hoc 1 Encryption key:off Frequency:2.437GHz quality: -56 ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. [1]+ Stopped ping 192.168.0.1 Hangs! iwlist eth1 scanning eth1 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 42:F5:A8:9E:54:CF ESSID:"deb1" Mode:Ad-Hoc Encryption key:off Frequency:2.437GHz Quality:190/0 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-245 dBm route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.0.3 * 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 sl0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default * 0.0.0.0 U 1 0 0 sl0 Does not show eth1? iwspy eth1 eth1 Statistics collected: 00:00:00:00:28:C2 : Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Link/Cell/AP : Quality:188/0 Signal level:-53 dBm Noise level:-5 dBm (updated) Typical/Reference : Quality:0/0 Signal level:-80 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"deb1" Nickname:"mordor" Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:6 Cell: 42:F5:A8:9E:54:CF Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=20/200 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:177/0 Signal level:-53 dBm Noise level:-32 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sl0 ESSID:off/any Nickname:"" NWID:8 Channel:80 Access Point: FF:BF:21:00:00:00 Bit Rate=-1.07375e+06kb/s Tx-Power=-1073746380 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry:on RTS thr=-1073746380 B Fragment thr=-1073746380 B Encryption key:0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000 Power Management:on NB sl0 is my Modem cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo: 24920 364 0 0 0 0 0 0 24920 364 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4082 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 sl0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9990 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ethereal Sending ARP packets to 127.255.255.255 So now I have a couple of issues. TIA Bill _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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Unsubscribed email addresses
by Craig Box 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Two messages today (Phil and Bill) from email addresses that are not subscribed to the list, were dropped. Please check when you are posting to the list that you are posting from the address you receive mail to! If you need to, you can subscribe multiple addresses and only receive mail to one. Craig

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Re: [wlug] I am stuck at the command line.
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

My computer said it thinks it needs some firmware and suggested a site. I am downloading this then will try to install. I found out off list that pointing and click works well, is this the road to which you were re-fering Craig? Also suggested (another point and click) is to use microsoft NDIS wrapper for wlan and kernel. Regards John PS Matt your emails are still coming to me as an off list item. I have no idea why. > > > > There are often many tricky ways to make hardware work > > on Linux, or one easy "just go down the road that makes > > it work" option. > > > > Craig

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RE: iHug / Wired Country
by Gerwin van de Steeg 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Hmm, Ihug/Wired Country wireless We've had this now for about 2+ years now, and has been working fine. Upto the last couple of months that is, starting at about the time the VoIP presentation was held at our premises. The link quality has been reduced, I've been asked to switch to a different network and back (different static ip's) whilst the gear was replaced. We've had some of the radio gear in Church Rd, Ngaruawahia, and on the Hospital die, all in the past month. One of the occasions when a radio unit had been replaced, we noticed that the unit only had a maximum arp table of 7 entries which took 3 hours to get fixed. Whilst the connections were organized by Go!Live, we had an afterhours contact phone number (the guy still works there but I'm not obliged to give people his cellphone number, and he hates being called when he's holding an arial and standing on someone's roof). Since then, the afterhours and weekend support have gone down the drain. We're now getting frequent outages ranging from a couple of minutes at 20+% packet loss, to 16+ hours of 100% packet loss. Ping times are bouncing like a maniac instead of being in a reasonably steady range. We've resorted to using nagios to monitor our incoming link and report errors and warnings, which result in me receiving on avergae about 20-30 emails a day during weekdays with respect to packet loss on the link, or ping responses exceeding 500ms. When it is working however, on a good clear sunny day, our guaranteed 512k link can get speeds much greater than this (approx ~2mb is my best sofar). Now, all the problems started to occur when we shifted to the Te Rapa area of Hamilton, we had no problems in Hillcrest. GerwinVanDeSteeg

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Apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.1.2 & RHEL 2.1
by Oliver Jones 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

I've identified my problem with Apache crashing in response to HUP and USR1 signals. As suggested it appears to be PHP's fault. If I removed php from the equation the crashes go away. I've filed a bug with RedHat describing the problem. Hopefully they release an errata soon. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132488 Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

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RE: [wlug] iHug / Wired Country
by David Nicholls 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Well ive been with satlan for about two years now, maybe about 3 outages total. When I ring them (almost anytime too) instant friendly response and they can usually tell me what they think the prob is too. Setup: This includes installing linux on a box for you (if you wish) as a router/web server/firewall/whatever/the aerial, first months rent, fixed ip addr (telecom don't give that usually from what I see), ... And as I said before for me service ranks way up there, and I will pay just for that. I don't know what their boundries are sadly. Id suggest ringing them. Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Lawson [mailto:daniel(a)meta.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:43 am Subject: Re: [wlug] iHug / Wired Country Joseph Gibbs wrote: >thats fine if one wants to pray $450 for setup... (according to their >website) And paying a lower setup is fine if you want to put up with connectivity and packet loss issues :) Daniel

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I am stuck at the command line.
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

I am attempting to install a driver set for my usb wireless adapter. The instructions I have are: ********************************************************* *** SMC WLan USB Card 11Mbps *** *** Linux Device Driver *** ********************************************************* 1. Install driver a) untar the package using the command: ---> tar zxvf SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W.tar.gz b) cd SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W c) ./setup.sh 2. Support a) Support RedHat 7.1, Redhat 7.2, Redhat 7.3 b) linux-kernel 2.4.17, 2.4.18 3. Module Parameters| --------------------| |------ In order to reconfigure the USB card you have to use one of the applications which comes with the driver. fvnet(command line utility) or xvnet (a graphical interface for the X windows), or the wireless tools (not tested and not recommended). For help for the fvnet and xvnet applications use the corresponding man pages. (man xvnet or man fvnet). Some of my attempts to write a command are: john(a)linux:~> su Password: linux:/home/john # ---> tar zxvf SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W.tar.gz bash: ---: command not found linux:/home/john # / tar zxvf SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W.tar.gz bash: /: is a directory linux:/home/john # tar zxvf SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662.tar.gz tar: SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors linux:/home/john # The folder is called SMC2662WV2 Linux.tar.gz Clicking this folder gives SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W Which shows on the location bar: tar:/home/john/SMC2662WV2_Linux.tar.gz I THINK that I am only a keystroke or two from getting this :-( Regards John

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Re: [wlug] I am stuck at the command line.
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Negative, We did try but time and the possibility that we needed drivers was against us. I am now trying to set up a SuSE distro. I am SO looking for that road that makes it work. in the meantime I will take the feel good points for actually typing a couple of commands (albeit list assisted) correctly. Regards John. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > Cool, I got the thing to extract and setup. I thought I > > would be tricky and run "iwconfig" > > but it reports back no wireless devices. I guess I need > > to read up some more before proceeding further. At least > > I made some progress. > > Thanks for the help so far. Regards John > > Without wanting to sound unhelpful, we got this wireless > card working at the Installfest, did we not? > > There are often many tricky ways to make hardware work on > Linux, or one easy "just go down the road that makes it > work" option. > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Re: [wlug] I am stuck at the command line.
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Cool, I got the thing to extract and setup. I thought I would be tricky and run "iwconfig" but it reports back no wireless devices. I guess I need to read up some more before proceeding further. At least I made some progress. Thanks for the help so far. Regards John ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:44, Matt Brown wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > I'll step through and point out what was wrong with each > > command. > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:24, jaytee(a)clear.net.nz wrote: > > > > > linux:/home/john # ---> tar zxvf > > > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W.tar.gz > > > bash: ---: command not found > > .. > > > > linux:/home/john # / tar zxvf > > > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W.tar.gz bash: /: is a directory > > > > I'm not quite sure where the / here comes from, it is > > what is causing the problem. > > > > > linux:/home/john # tar zxvf > > > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662.tar.gz tar: > > > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such > file or directory > > > 6) If you can see the filename > > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662.tar.gz in the output of the > previous command continue, otherwise go back to step 1 > > It looks like those filenames are subtly different. > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662W.tar.gz versus > SMC_USB_WIRELESS_2662.tar.gz (without a "W" following the > 2662). Make sure you use the correct one for the "tar" > command, depending on what the file is actually called. > > John McPherson > > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > [Attachment: jrm21(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz.sig]

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iHug / Wired Country
by Joseph Gibbs 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Hi, Looking at getting wireless internet and phone package from wired country, through ihug. Will probably get the 1 or 2mbit deal. Has anyone had any experiences with them? I checked the wlug pages, not much info about them though. I'm interested in the quality of service they provide, and any other experinces you could share for/against getting this service. thanks, Joseph.

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