[nycbug-talk] Newbie: Aironet 350 PCMCIA; How to join WEP network

[Michael Morefield]

---On Jan 26, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Kliment Andreev wrote:---
I was running this card on my old laptop. As far as I remember, I was using
an0 driver. Can you send me the output of /var/log/messages
and give me the output of  "ifconfig". What's in your conf file for the card
(key, passphrase, etc...). I remember getting some weird messages on the
console (like expected 300 got 250 or something) but besides that it was
working perfect.
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Ok, thanks.  By the way, this machine is a Toshiba Portege 7010CT.  I don't
have any conf file for the card -- just trying to get it up using the command
line.  Here is the info you requested:

Immediately after boot, running "ifconfig" yields:

lp0: flags=8810<POINTTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP, LOOPBACK, RUNNING, MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
pp0: flags=8010<POINTTOPOINT, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTTOPOINT LINK2, MULTICAST> mtu 552
faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
an0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	inet6 fe80:20d:29ff:fe3a:64f1%an0 prefixlen64 scopeid 0x6
	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
	ether 00:0d:29:3a:64:f1
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
	status: no carrier
	ssid: " "
	stationname FreeBSD
	channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 200
	wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
	wepkey 1:128-bit

Relevant portions of "dmesg" (Sorry, I'm retyping this by hand, so am not
including the whole thing -- hope that is OK.):

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #3 
[...]
pci_cfgintr_unique: hard-routed to irq 11
pci_cfginter: 0:11 INTA routed to irq 11
pcic0: <Toshiba ToPIC97 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88000000
pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
pci_cfgintr_linked: linked (61) to hard-routed irq 11
pci_cfgintr: 0:11 INTB routed to irq 11
pcic1: <Toshiba ToPIC97 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 11.1 on pci0
pcic1: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88001000
pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic1
[...]
pccard: card inserted, slot 1
pccard: card removed, slot 1
pccard: card inserted, slot 1
an0: <Aironet PC4500/PC4800> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 1 on pccard1
an0: got RSSI <-> dBM map
an0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:29:3a:64:f1 

The contents of /var/log/messages is similar to the dmesg.  Here are to parts
that don't seem to be in the dmesg results:

Jan 26 17:23:27 SPARROW PCCARDD[58]: CARD "CISCO SYSTEMS" ("350 Series Wireless
LAN Adapter") [[none]] [[none]] matched "Cisco Systems" ("350 Series Wireless
LAN Adapter") [[null]] [[null]]

[...]
Jan 26 17:23:59 sparrow login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
Jan 26 17:24:44 sparrow pccardd[58]: pccardd started

Then I run:

ancontrol -a 00:50:18:05:1A:40 [the access point as displayed by my mac with
airport card]
ancontrol -K 2
ancontrol -W 1
ancontrol -e 0
ancontrol -n [Name]

The password is in the chip, channel is already set to channel 6, which is
correct.  "ifconfig an0" results in:

an0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	inet6 fe80:20d:29ff:fe3a:64f1%an0 prefixlen64 scopeid 0x6
	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
	ether 00:0d:29:3a:64:f1
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
	status: no carrier
	ssid: "[Name]"
	stationname FreeBSD
	channel 6 authmode SHARED powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 200
	wepmode ON weptxkey 1
	wepkey 1:128-bit

"ping nycbug.org" results in:
ping: cannot resolve nycbug.org: Host name lookup failure

/var/log/messges now includes the following lines at the end:

Jan 26 18:13:53 sparrow dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available
Jan 26 18:17:23 sparrow dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available
Jan 26 18:18:05 sparrow last message repeated 4 times
Jan 26 18:28:53 sparrow last message repeated 11 times
Jan 26 18:39:14 sparrow last message repeated 7 times
Jan 26 18:47:42 sparrow last message repeated 9 times

Best,
Michael

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