Epox EWL-C11 Wireless Card

[Brujah]

Hy Users,

I am totally new to Knoppix and Debian and so have my problems with getting all Hardware running.

I used the Tool to install WLAN Cards but after that
the Light is still blinking, and so I think something is wrong.


An iwconfig tells me this:

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"familie_doebele" Nickname:"lapi"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.457GHz Cell: 02:23:6A:C0:29:7D
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/242700000
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:1111-2222-3333-4444-0000-0000-00 Security modepen
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


And a lsmod tells me this:

orinoco_cs 4916 0
orinoco 35372 0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes 5156 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]


Do I need something more ?

I cutted it a bit.
What can I do next ?

Markus

[tearinghairout]

An iwconfig tells me this:

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"familie_doebele" Nickname:"lapi"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.457GHz Cell: 02:23:6A:C0:29:7D
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/242700000
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:1111-2222-3333-4444-0000-0000-00 Security modepen
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I think that all this is saying that your hardware is basically recognised and working, so you are definately on the right track. Don't worry too much about the version 15/16 message. I get that all the time and don't seem to have any problems.

The question is, what other wireless device are you trying to talk to?
Do you have some sort of a wireless access-point or are you trying to talk to another computer with a wireless card?

If you have an access-point, I think they configure things like the ESSID for you, otherwise you have to configure these manually.

THO

[RogerL]

An iwconfig tells me this:

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 15
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...

This is a serious BUG in knoppix that I tried to report.
But the bug page did not work...

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"familie_doebele" Nickname:"lapi"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.457GHz Cell: 02:23:6A:C0:29:7D
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/242700000

Do you see the Sensitivity thing...
It should be more like 1/3
Another thing to check is
# iwlist eth1 freq
It should give you a list of possible frequences, but it won't...

/RogerL