[Cialug] DSL and wireless

[Tom Sellers]

Sorry I haven't responded.  I am traveling this week and have not been able to even think about trying this.  See my comments below.  I appreciate your assistance!

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, jrnosee at gmail.com <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: jrnosee at gmail.com <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL and wireless
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 11:16 AM
> Can you post dmesg?  Is DSL loading your
> PCMCIA properly?
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> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM,
> Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>
> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:
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> > I loaded DSL on a USB stick so that I could boot up my
> laptop in Linux rather than try to use my other old laptop.
>  It works if I connect it directly to a cable but wireless
> is another story.  The DSL site says that the Cisco wirless
> 350 PCMCIA card works out of the box but I can't seem to
> make it work at all.  The laptop (IBM Thinkpad R60)actually
> has a built in Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG network card.
>  It appeared that this card does not work well with DSL so
> I chose to insert a Cisco 350 card that I had laying around
> since it was said to work out of the box.
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> > Anyone have any experience with DSL running
> wirelessly?  Suggestions?
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> Have you tried turning it off and back on again? Is
> it definitely plugged in?

Yes.  The PCMCIA 350 card is plugged into the slot.  I can get some information that indicates the card is plugged in but it does not seem to absolutely confirm that it is a Aironet 350 card.  

If I fire up Windows on the same laptop it recognizes the card.

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> Seriously, that's not a lot of information to go on.

I appologize for the lack of information but I am not that knowledgeable of Linux operation.  Most of my experience has been Windows related.  I am still trying to learn Linux and have not had any experience of adding new devices that were not detected during install.  That is why I chose this card since DSL indicated it was basically plug and play.

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> Is is not detecting the WiFi interface(s)*?

No

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> Is it detecting the interface but not any wireless
> networks?

No

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> Is it detecting but not joining wireless networks?

No

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> Is it joining networks but not letting you assign an

Not sure how to answer this for sure.  I can attach this laptop to my home network with a cable.  I just can't get it to recognize either the internal wireless card or the PCMCIA card that I plugged in.

It never gets to the point where it would assign or pick up an IP address.

> address?
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> Is it configuring an address but not passing traffic?

No

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>         Zach
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> *On a related note, the Intel 3945 is supported by iwlwifi,
> which is in the mainline kernel since like 2.6.24, so it
> probably works now even if it didn't before as long as
> you've got a sufficiently new kernel.

I will try to fire it up again this evening if I get back at a reasonable time and provide the kernel version.  I worked last night until after 10:00 PM.



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