From: Richard T. S. <rs...@pa...> - 2006-02-09 02:46:15
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I have been asleep at the switch and my gumstix is about 200 revs behind. So, I built the latest and things have changed: among other things /etc/pcmcia is gone. I went back through versions and it went away with r775. So, is r774 as far as I can go with the original connex 400xm and cfstix? Or has the whole wifi thing been redone? The reason I ask is that I had scripts that would modify various thing in and under /etc so that wifi came up on my WEP network without a lot of typing. Richard |
From: Dave H. <dhy...@gm...> - 2006-02-09 05:12:58
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Hi Richard, On 2/8/06, Richard T. Stofer <rs...@pa...> wrote: > I have been asleep at the switch and my gumstix is about 200 revs behind. > So, I built the latest and things have changed: among other things > /etc/pcmcia is gone. Rev 773 is the last rev which has 2.6.11. Rev 775 starts with 2.6.15. I'm not familiar with the pcmcia stuff. I suspect things moved around a bit with the new kernel and udev, etc. -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ |
From: Bryan A. <bpadams@MIT.EDU> - 2006-02-09 14:11:53
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I just made the same change (on a 200cnx) last night, and found the same thing. My solution was to stick hostap_cs at the bottom of /etc/modules, and then add a few lines (iwconfig the mode and essid) to the S40network script in /etc/init.d/. That works, but if someone knows of a better setup, I'm all ears. --Bryan Richard T. Stofer wrote: > I have been asleep at the switch and my gumstix is about 200 revs behind. > So, I built the latest and things have changed: among other things > /etc/pcmcia is gone. > > I went back through versions and it went away with r775. > > So, is r774 as far as I can go with the original connex 400xm and cfstix? > Or has the whole wifi thing been redone? The reason I ask is that I had > scripts that would modify various thing in and under /etc so that wifi came > up on my WEP network without a lot of typing. > > Richard > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |
From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2006-02-09 16:46:58
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On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Bryan Adams wrote: > I just made the same change (on a 200cnx) last night, and found the > same thing. My solution was to stick hostap_cs at the bottom of / > etc/modules, and then add a few lines (iwconfig the mode and essid) > to the S40network script in /etc/init.d/. > > That works, but if someone knows of a better setup, I'm all ears. I would have thought, though I'm not sure, that the place to include iwconfig stuff would be in a pre-up script in /etc/network/interfaces C |
From: Martin B. <bry...@da...> - 2006-02-09 17:06:59
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Hi Bryan, Could you forward your /etc/modules + S40network (anonymized if necessary)? -Martin On 09/02/2006, at 9.11, Bryan Adams wrote: > I just made the same change (on a 200cnx) last night, and found the > same thing. My solution was to stick hostap_cs at the bottom of / > etc/modules, and then add a few lines (iwconfig the mode and essid) > to the S40network script in /etc/init.d/. > > That works, but if someone knows of a better setup, I'm all ears. > > --Bryan > > > Richard T. Stofer wrote: >> I have been asleep at the switch and my gumstix is about 200 revs >> behind. >> So, I built the latest and things have changed: among other things >> /etc/pcmcia is gone. >> I went back through versions and it went away with r775. >> So, is r774 as far as I can go with the original connex 400xm and >> cfstix? >> Or has the whole wifi thing been redone? The reason I ask is that >> I had >> scripts that would modify various thing in and under /etc so that >> wifi came >> up on my WEP network without a lot of typing. >> Richard |
From: Bryan A. <bpadams@MIT.EDU> - 2006-02-09 17:48:12
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the content of the files is appended. my modifications are basically 3 lines ("hostap_cs" in /etc/modules and the two iwconfig lines in /etc/init.d/S40network). as craig mentioned, the commands should probably be in if-up.d (or pre-if-up.d) so that they're run anytime an ifup command is issued (as the S30network script does). my concern is that the if-up.d scripts are called once for each interface, and i only want iwconfig called once, for the wlan0 interface. my method also stinks b/c it hardcodes the essid (in my case, "StataCenter"). it would be better if that were picked up automatically, but i'm not fluent in iwconfig and, since it's working, i should probably move on to other (non-networking) related stuff. so if someone posts a more-savvy method, i'll use that instead. --bryan ---------------------------- # more /etc/modules # MMC support -- comment out the next two lines to enable CF #mmc_block #pxamci # Compact Flash support -- uncomment next line to enable pxa2xx-cs hostap_cs #GPIO proc_gpio # # more /etc/init.d/S40network #!/bin/sh # # Start the network.... # start() { echo "Starting network..." /sbin/ifup -a iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed iwconfig wlan0 essid StataCenter } stop() { echo -n "Stopping network..." /sbin/ifdown -a } restart() { stop start } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart|reload) restart ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 esac exit $? Martin Brynskov wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > Could you forward your /etc/modules + S40network (anonymized if necessary)? > > -Martin > > On 09/02/2006, at 9.11, Bryan Adams wrote: > >> I just made the same change (on a 200cnx) last night, and found the >> same thing. My solution was to stick hostap_cs at the bottom of >> /etc/modules, and then add a few lines (iwconfig the mode and essid) >> to the S40network script in /etc/init.d/. >> >> That works, but if someone knows of a better setup, I'm all ears. >> >> --Bryan >> >> >> Richard T. Stofer wrote: >>> I have been asleep at the switch and my gumstix is about 200 revs >>> behind. >>> So, I built the latest and things have changed: among other things >>> /etc/pcmcia is gone. >>> I went back through versions and it went away with r775. >>> So, is r774 as far as I can go with the original connex 400xm and >>> cfstix? >>> Or has the whole wifi thing been redone? The reason I ask is that I had >>> scripts that would modify various thing in and under /etc so that >>> wifi came >>> up on my WEP network without a lot of typing. >>> Richard > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |
From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2006-02-10 00:34:08
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On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Bryan Adams wrote: > the content of the files is appended. my modifications are > basically 3 lines ("hostap_cs" in /etc/modules and the two iwconfig > lines in /etc/init.d/S40network). > > as craig mentioned, the commands should probably be in if-up.d (or > pre-if-up.d) so that they're run anytime an ifup command is issued > (as the S30network script does). my concern is that the if-up.d > scripts are called once for each interface, and i only want > iwconfig called once, for the wlan0 interface. You can do it for just wlan0 if you have a "pre-up /path/to/some/ script" under the wlan0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces > my method also stinks b/c it hardcodes the essid (in my case, > "StataCenter"). it would be better if that were picked up > automatically, but i'm not fluent in iwconfig and, since it's > working, i should probably move on to other (non-networking) > related stuff. so if someone posts a more-savvy method, i'll use > that instead. I think if you're not hardcoding the ESSid, but just want whatever's there, then you can use the "special" ESSid "any" which will match the strongest signal. C |
From: Martin B. <bry...@da...> - 2006-02-10 02:59:23
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Thanks Bryan and Craig. It's working -- except we're having problems with the AmbiCom CF WiFi card and the driver. Hostap spews a few lines now and then, or hangs. Sometimes wlan0 will get an IP address, but I can't change settings (e.g. essid) with iwconfig. Orinoco just refuses to do anything. Not really sure what it takes to fix it. Is there a good walkthrough of linux wifi cf driver tweaking debugging that you (or anyone) could point me to? I've trawled the gumstix mailing list but nothing seems to nail it down. I'm on r794, cfstix 200, AmbiCom WL1100B. Thanks for all the helpful comments on the list in general. :-) -Martin On 09/02/2006, at 19.33, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Bryan Adams wrote: > >> the content of the files is appended. my modifications are >> basically 3 lines ("hostap_cs" in /etc/modules and the two >> iwconfig lines in /etc/init.d/S40network). >> >> as craig mentioned, the commands should probably be in if-up.d (or >> pre-if-up.d) so that they're run anytime an ifup command is issued >> (as the S30network script does). my concern is that the if-up.d >> scripts are called once for each interface, and i only want >> iwconfig called once, for the wlan0 interface. > > You can do it for just wlan0 if you have a "pre-up /path/to/some/ > script" under the wlan0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces > >> my method also stinks b/c it hardcodes the essid (in my case, >> "StataCenter"). it would be better if that were picked up >> automatically, but i'm not fluent in iwconfig and, since it's >> working, i should probably move on to other (non-networking) >> related stuff. so if someone posts a more-savvy method, i'll use >> that instead. > > I think if you're not hardcoding the ESSid, but just want > whatever's there, then you can use the "special" ESSid "any" which > will match the strongest signal. > > C |
From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2006-02-10 10:18:34
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If the card is being properly recognized on the bus, then the best place to look for help is probably a generic linux PCMCIA or Compact Flash forum where people will have more experience with getting such cards to work under linux. The gumstix-specific stuff appears to be working now for you, and the question is more of a userspace one, which will apply on any linux platform which is trying to use that card/driver. C On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Martin Brynskov wrote: > Thanks Bryan and Craig. It's working -- except we're having > problems with the AmbiCom CF WiFi card and the driver. Hostap spews > a few lines now and then, or hangs. Sometimes wlan0 will get an IP > address, but I can't change settings (e.g. essid) with iwconfig. > Orinoco just refuses to do anything. Not really sure what it takes > to fix it. > > Is there a good walkthrough of linux wifi cf driver tweaking > debugging that you (or anyone) could point me to? I've trawled the > gumstix mailing list but nothing seems to nail it down. I'm on > r794, cfstix 200, AmbiCom WL1100B. > > Thanks for all the helpful comments on the list in general. :-) > > -Martin > > On 09/02/2006, at 19.33, Craig Hughes wrote: > >> On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Bryan Adams wrote: >> >>> the content of the files is appended. my modifications are >>> basically 3 lines ("hostap_cs" in /etc/modules and the two >>> iwconfig lines in /etc/init.d/S40network). >>> >>> as craig mentioned, the commands should probably be in if-up.d >>> (or pre-if-up.d) so that they're run anytime an ifup command is >>> issued (as the S30network script does). my concern is that the >>> if-up.d scripts are called once for each interface, and i only >>> want iwconfig called once, for the wlan0 interface. >> >> You can do it for just wlan0 if you have a "pre-up /path/to/some/ >> script" under the wlan0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces >> >>> my method also stinks b/c it hardcodes the essid (in my case, >>> "StataCenter"). it would be better if that were picked up >>> automatically, but i'm not fluent in iwconfig and, since it's >>> working, i should probably move on to other (non-networking) >>> related stuff. so if someone posts a more-savvy method, i'll use >>> that instead. >> >> I think if you're not hardcoding the ESSid, but just want >> whatever's there, then you can use the "special" ESSid "any" which >> will match the strongest signal. >> >> C > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through > log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD > SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |