Knoppix WLAN issue

[hmeyer]

Hello,

I'm running a HD-install of Knoppix 3.6 on a pretty old Laptop (a Siemens 266MHz Machine), and try to get WLAN running with a Corega PCCL-11 (Prism 3.0 chipset) PCMCIA-Card.
I want to connect to the net via my netgear fm314p router, which is running fine (and can be accessed from WinXP via WLAN nicely).
I first tried to use the prism2_cs module, but it didn't work.

I've now configured around a bit (see below), and have a situation, where my wlan sometimes works - I can ping a lot of hosts around the world with good ping-times (but icmp_seq is not continuiosly - there are hops of 10-20).
But I can't really have traffic: web browsing or apt-get install didn't work. And sometimes even the pings don't work.
What is wrong here?


I created an entry in /etc/pcmcia/config like:


card "Corega PCCL-11 WLAN PCMCIA"
version "corega","WL PCCL-11","ISL37300P","RevA"
minfid 0xc00f, 0x0000
bind "orinoco_cs"

my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:


auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
adress 192.168.0.127
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1
wireless_essid Bacterioides
wireless_mode managed


my /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts looks like:


case "$ADRESS" in
*,*,*,00:09:41:1B:E7:90)
ESSID="Bacterioides"
MODE="Managed"
CHANNEL="4"
KEY="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
RATE="11M"
esac



When I boot up, dmesg says:


orinoco 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
eth0: Hardware identity 801b:0000:0001:0000
eth0: Station identity 001f:0004:0001:0003
eth0: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.3.4
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC adress 00:09:41:1B:E7:90
eth0: Station name "Prism I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 0, io 0x100-0x13f

this looks good....and 4 lines later:


eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
hermes @ IO 0x100: Timeout waiting for command 0x0002 completition
eth0: Error -110 disabling MAC port



iwconfig now says:


lo no wireless extensions
eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Bacterioides" Nickname:"murkel"
Mode: Managed Frequency:2.427GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:2C:67:E6
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=6/92 Signal level=140/152 Noise level=114/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


ifconfig only lists lo

no I try


ifup eth0

ifconfig now lists:


eth0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:09:41:1B:E7:90
inet Adresse:192.168.0.127 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Senderwarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:185 (185.0 b) TX bytes:396 (396.0 b)
Interrupt:0 Basisadresse:0x100



Please help me!
Thanks a lot.

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