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wireless Ad-hoc, 2 IBM Thinkpads, Orinoco Gold
Hi,
I am desperate. I tried to get a wireless Ad-Hoc connection with WinXP sp1 and my two laptops for 2 days now. It did not work. So I switchet to knoppix. Any better here either. I searched for all the information I could find on the Internet and this board. I configured my Orinoco Gold cards with wlcarconfig, asigned static ips, checked the signals with wavemon. The cards keep sending signals (tx in wavemon) but there is no rx. They keep blinking, it makes me real nervous.
So I think the cards seem to work correctly, but they do not connect. What in hell am I doing wrong? Does anybody have a solution for my problem? I really need this wireless connection.
Thanks for every response, fluppel
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Can you give the results of running the following commands:
ifconfig -a
iwconfig
lsmod
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I am running a Thinkpad 380XD with a Dell Truemobile 1150 wlan card (its a rebadged Orinoco Gold).
All I can get it to do is flash its lights. the Knoppix (and Kanotix too) wlancard config utils says "No Card Detected", usually (I was able to get it to go through after running wlan-ng from /etc/pcmcia/). On boot it modprobes orinoco, orinoco_cs and hermes. lsmod shows those as being in. Ifconfig -a shows eth0 as being there with no IP, no packets sent or recieved (or even dropped) but a slew of errors under tx. iwconfig shows it as being there, seemingly ok except the access point being 44:44:44:44:44:44 (which seems odd to me). I'd copy and paste it, but I'm not on that machine now (since that one doesnt have net or lan access currently.
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Check lsmod again and see if there is a 1 next to orinoco_cs. Also, what are the errors under tx. And, under iwconfig does it show your card in managed mode?
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Its in managed mode, and orinoco_cs has a 1. As far as the errors, I have no clue. Relative Linux newbie with zero wlan experience. when I get home and I plug into my home network, I'll post the logs I have of iwconfig, ifconfig, lsmod, and lspci (borrowing a computer at the moment since I am not near where I live, was out of town for a court hearing).
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It looks like you have your card properly configured but it's not seeing your AP, and your laptop is not getting a dhcp assigned IP address.
Do you have a router/AP and is it configured for dhcp? If not, what kind of setup do you have.
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One more thing, it looks like you are using channel 12. Did you buy this card outside the US? You may have to change that if it's not compatible with your AP.
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Forget that last post. I'm looking at the wrong table.
Sorry.
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Its a router/AP, and as far as dhcp config, I am not sure. Its not my AP.
As far as specs, its a Netgear MR814 v2 router.
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