Thanks John, that is extremely useful. I think my problem revolves around:
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
Determining IP information for wlan0...
[and it waits for a while and comes back with the standard "do you have
a problem with your cable"]
For reference...
# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:371259 Missed beacon:0
When I do:
# iwconfig wlan0 rate 11Meg
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
(The 11Meg was just a for example). I do have a Wireless Palm and it
works fine.
I I'll try the suggestion of setting things by hand tonight. Ithink the
real problem is the "Set Bit Rate" thing above.
Any ideas?
Craig
John Haxby wrote:
> Craig Jones wrote:
>
>> Details, just got a Dell inspiron 5150 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300
>> (or maybe it is the 1400, hmmm) which supposedly has a Broadcom 4301
>> chip. I ran through the INSTALL information and most things seemed to
>> work, but I can't seem to get wlan0 up.
>
>
> That's the wireless device I've got in my Inspiron 8500 and it's
> working just fine.
>
>>
>> At step 8, I did the $ ifconfig wlan0 up and it seemed to like that,
>> when I do an ifconfig after I get...
>>
>> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:6E:CE:B4
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2736 (2.6 Kb)
>> Interrupt:11 Memory:faffc000-faffdfff
>
>
> That looks OK -- it's an unconfigured wireless device. "iwconfig
> wlan0" my also be of interest. For example, mine says:
>
> Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 16
> of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15.
> Some things may be broken...
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"XYZZY"
> Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:30:AB:1B:96:3F
> Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm
> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:100/0 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:50 Invalid misc:142523 Missed beacon:0
>
>
> The warning might account for the perfect link quality and
> ridiculously low noise level, but it does work. And as root I would
> also get to see the WEP key. Note also the ESSID -- since this is at
> home I quite like that one and I might just change the real ESSID to
> that :-) Essentially this lot means that it's properly negotiated
> with the access point.
>
>>
>> I then tried a ifup wlan0 and got...
>>
>> ifup wlan0
>> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>> SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
>>
>> Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.
>
>
> That's what I would expect if you haven't got a DHCP server
> configured. Take a look in /var/log/messages to see if there's
> anything interesting. Try also configuring an address, netmask and
> broadcast address "by hand" with ifconfig.
>
> "neat", aka redhat-config-network (I think), is quite useful for
> setting up wireless devices as it gets all the configuration right for
> you and you don't need to worry about it.
>
>>
>> The only thing I am not sure about is I am using
>> kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (from fedora core 1). The website does say it
>> should be minimum 2.4.23, but other posts to the list do talk about
>> 2.4.22.
>
>
> That *should* be OK -- I've had 0.4 working with the RHEL 2.4.21 kernel.
>
>>
>> I used driver 2 from the webpage line:
>>
>> Broadcom 94306 driver1
>> <http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwareDownloadIndex.jhtml?reg=&cc=us&softitem=hb-17787-1&prodId=hppavilion385145&lc=en&plc=&sw_lang=en&pagetype=software>,driver2
>>
>>
>> <http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R65194.EXE>,driver3
>> <http://downloads.emachines.com/network/Broadcom_80211g_3_20_23_0.zip>
>
>
> I presume by "driver 2" you mean the DELL one -- that's the one I use.
>
>
>
>
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