Wireless broken after upgrade.

orjanp · 2006-01-16 19:58:24

Did an upgrade. After a reboot my wireless card didn't work anymore.

I did use the Orinoco drivers before, but now both Orinoco and Hostap drivers are loaded. Why? This is done by hwdetect during boot.

The wir extension are found with iwconfig using Hostap drivers.

lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"asdf"  
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: 00:05:3C:04:84:57   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"asdf"  
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: 00:05:3C:04:84:57   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:1  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

lspci give this type of wireless card

02:02.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

Did use orinoco drivers before, and it did work fine. Have tried the Hostap drivers, but I didn't get it to work. Didn't get an ip from AP

Now, it seems like I have no choice, since the wir card is not detected when I use the Orinoco drivers. And like before, when using Hostap drivers I'm not able to get an ip from AP when doing a dhcpcd wlan0.

Hvar done som searching on the forum without any luck.
Any ideas?

This is my rc.conf

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by hwdetect
MOD_BLACKLIST=()
#
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a module with a ! to disable it
#
MODULES=(!usbserial edev e100 p4-clockmod cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
HOSTNAME="ArchThinkpad"
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0)
#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
#
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up.  These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network-profiles
#
#NET_PROFILES=(main)

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !hotplug !pcmcia network netfs crond cpudyn hplip cups alsa)


# End of file

Orjanp...

rayjgu3 · 2006-01-16 23:19:43

in rc.conf
wifi0="dhcp"
or
wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 wifi0 *or* wlan0)

orjanp · 2006-01-17 00:08:42

Yes, I know I'm missing that in my rc.conf. But I have never needed to have it there before. I configure the wireless card after boot manually.

Why is both the Orinoco and Hostap drivers loaded? Hwdetect must detect my card wrong.

Orjanp...

rayjgu3 · 2006-01-17 01:47:23

id guess you were using hotplug (which handled alot) before -Syu now you are not so you gotta get in there & add that stuff try it if it dont work than you gott dig more
it could be hwdetect is miss reading your hard ware in which case add unneeded module to blacklist in rc.conf

orjanp · 2006-01-17 05:36:13

Why didn't I think of that? Well, it worked, so thanks.

Hwdetect loads three or four times as many modules compared to hotplug. Is that how it's suppose to be?

Orjanp...

ben017f · 2006-01-20 00:08:48

I'm having similar issues with an orinoco card.. i have added hostap and hostap_cs to the blacklist part of rc.conf, but it still get's loades at boot and i have the wifi0 interface that i don't want.

Also as a bit of an aside when I finally get my card working, I'll need to change my MAC address to connect to the wireless network... does anyone know of a way to do it fairly easily? (Under gentoo I added a couple of lines to the preup{} function in /etc/conf.d/net, but it feels a bit clunky!)

tranxene · 2006-02-09 21:18:38

Me too, i can't connect to any WEP encrypted network with my orinoco pcmcia card after the installation of 'Noodle' Since then I have read all threads including this topic and it seems there are no real solutions apart from blacklisting the hostap modules.

And like mentioned in the message above - this also happend in vain because even after blacklisting these modules they are loaded all the same:

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MOD_BLACKLIST=(hostap hostap_cs)

# lsmod | grep hostap
hostap_cs              61592  1 
hostap                117892  1 hostap_cs
ieee80211_crypt         5120  1 hostap
pcmcia                 33708  2 orinoco_cs,hostap_cs

# iwconfig wlan0 key 'my_hex_key'
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Some precisions: under 'Wombat' my orinoco ran like a charm and even now everything seems alright - apart from the WEP encryption. So, is there really no way to solve this problem?

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#1 2006-01-16 19:58:24

Wireless broken after upgrade.

#2 2006-01-16 23:19:43

Re: Wireless broken after upgrade.

#3 2006-01-17 00:08:42

Re: Wireless broken after upgrade.

#4 2006-01-17 01:47:23

Re: Wireless broken after upgrade.

#5 2006-01-17 05:36:13

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#6 2006-01-20 00:08:48

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#7 2006-02-09 21:18:38

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