Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] centrino and WEP: half a success
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From: Andrea R. <mai...@is...> - 2004-01-11 18:23:04
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Hi there! First of all I would like to thank the developers for their great job: the wireless card of my Toshiba Portege R100 is eventually working! My config: the card should be an Intell PRO/Wireless Lan 2100 (lspci give unknown device, though), Im'm using ndiswrapper 0.4 and intell2100b.zip drivers (from the ndiswrapper home page). With no encription the card is working just fine. I tried to set a 40bit key (following the various tips found in this mailing list). I cna set it and I can get it working, but for not more than a couple of minutes, either in restricted and open modes. Then the connection stops working. Anyone with a similar problem? Any idea? Once again thanks for your work. Regards, Andrea |
From: Stefan <ste...@gm...> - 2004-01-11 19:49:28
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Hello, > With no encription the card is working just fine. I tried to set a > 40bit key (following the various tips found in this mailing list). I cna > set it and I can get it working, but for not more than a couple of > minutes, either in restricted and open modes. Then the connection stops > working. > Anyone with a similar problem? Any idea? I had this problem a few weeks ago, and I experianced it yesterday when installing Gentoo over my Wireless card. It stopped after the basic system was installed. If I remember right I saw this in Windows too, but windows automatically reconnected. Maybe such a daemon would help in Linux too. I a message stating that the wireless connection is lost, and after two secounds the connection was up again. /Stefan |
From: Nils T. <nil...@un...> - 2004-01-13 15:44:48
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Andrea Rossato wrote: > Hi there! > First of all I would like to thank the developers for their great job: > the wireless card of my Toshiba Portege R100 is eventually working! > My config: > the card should be an Intell PRO/Wireless Lan 2100 (lspci give unknown > device, though), Im'm using ndiswrapper 0.4 and intell2100b.zip drivers > (from the ndiswrapper home page). > > With no encription the card is working just fine. I tried to set a 40bit > key (following the various tips found in this mailing list). I cna set > it and I can get it working, but for not more than a couple of minutes, > either in restricted and open modes. Then the connection stops working. > Anyone with a similar problem? Any idea? Hi, I have the same card on an IBM ThinkPad R40 2722-5MG. Without WEP the connection is very stable, but with a 104 bit key set, the connection sometimes stops working after one hour, sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after two hours,... |
From: Andrea R. <mai...@is...> - 2004-01-13 17:41:23
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Nils Trebing wrote: > I have the same card on an IBM ThinkPad R40 2722-5MG. Without WEP the > connection is very stable, but with a 104 bit key set, the connection > sometimes stops working after one hour, sometimes after 5 minutes, > sometimes after two hours,... I sort of solved with a bash scrip in the background that keeps setting the key every 10 seconds. Brute force, I know, but I do not see other solutions so far. #!/bin/bash a=`ifconfig wlan0` while [ "$a" != "" ] do iwconfig wlan0 key open aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aa a=`ifconfig wlan0` sleep 10 done exit 0 Andrea |
From: Giridhar P. <gi...@lm...> - 2004-01-13 17:57:20
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Could it be some kind of power management settings interfering? What if you ping every 5 seconds? Is there any setting in the inf file that can be changed to keep the card not drop connection? Giri. |
From: Andrea R. <mai...@is...> - 2004-01-13 21:35:08
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Giridhar Pemmasani wrote: > Could it be some kind of power management settings interfering? What > if you ping every 5 seconds? Is there any setting in the inf file that > can be changed to keep the card not drop connection? I tried pinging every 5 seconds but the connection got dropped...so I would think that this could be unrelated to a power managment problems. I had a look to the inf file but I'm not able to see anything that could cause this strange behavour. This only thing that I've got quite clear is the fact that resetting the key brings the connection back. Thanks for your kind attention. Andrea |
From: Stefan <slu...@kl...> - 2004-01-23 20:27:16
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Nils Trebing sagte: > Andrea Rossato wrote: >> Hi there! >> First of all I would like to thank the developers for their great job: >> the wireless card of my Toshiba Portege R100 is eventually working! >> My config: >> the card should be an Intell PRO/Wireless Lan 2100 (lspci give unknown >> device, though), Im'm using ndiswrapper 0.4 and intell2100b.zip driver= s >> (from the ndiswrapper home page). >> >> With no encription the card is working just fine. I tried to set a 40b= it >> key (following the various tips found in this mailing list). I cna set >> it and I can get it working, but for not more than a couple of minutes= , >> either in restricted and open modes. Then the connection stops working. >> Anyone with a similar problem? Any idea? > > Hi, > > I have the same card on an IBM ThinkPad R40 2722-5MG. Without WEP the > connection is very stable, but with a 104 bit key set, the connection > sometimes stops working after one hour, sometimes after 5 minutes, > sometimes after two hours,... I have the same problem with the current CVS versionand 128-Bit WEB, two weeks ago everythink was fine. The connection was stable without problems. Now the problem occours, when I receive a lot of data. But what I see is, that my access point L-DINK AP 900+ is rebooting??? Is the box out of order, buggy firmware or a problem with the ndiswrapper= ? Best Regards Stefan L=FCthje |
From: Stefan <slu...@cl...> - 2004-01-23 22:08:08
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Stefan L=FCthje sagte: > > Nils Trebing sagte: >> Andrea Rossato wrote: >>> Hi there! >>> First of all I would like to thank the developers for their great job= : >>> the wireless card of my Toshiba Portege R100 is eventually working! >>> My config: >>> the card should be an Intell PRO/Wireless Lan 2100 (lspci give unknow= n >>> device, though), Im'm using ndiswrapper 0.4 and intell2100b.zip drive= rs >>> (from the ndiswrapper home page). >>> >>> With no encription the card is working just fine. I tried to set a >>> 40bit >>> key (following the various tips found in this mailing list). I cna se= t >>> it and I can get it working, but for not more than a couple of minute= s, >>> either in restricted and open modes. Then the connection stops workin= g. >>> Anyone with a similar problem? Any idea? >> >> Hi, >> >> I have the same card on an IBM ThinkPad R40 2722-5MG. Without WEP the >> connection is very stable, but with a 104 bit key set, the connection >> sometimes stops working after one hour, sometimes after 5 minutes, >> sometimes after two hours,... > > I have the same problem with the current CVS versionand 128-Bit WEB, tw= o > weeks ago everythink was fine. The connection was stable without proble= ms. > > Now the problem occours, when I receive a lot of data. But what I see i= s, > that my access point L-DINK AP 900+ is rebooting??? > > Is the box out of order, buggy firmware or a problem with the ndiswrapp= er? After an Firmwareupdate from 2.56 to 2.61, the AP is not crashing anymore= , but the WLAN card Intel 2100 3B hangs again during a high traffic rate. Best Regards Stefan L=FCthje |