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Title: Put Wifi Card Up (planex Gw-cf11x)
Post by: enodr on April 07, 2006, 01:56:28 pm
Note: I have posted this topic in Networking / Security, but it may be more appropriate here as it is a Sharp ROM related issue...


I have read all the topics related to wifi for two days and I haven't be able to do a very simple thing: I want to bring up the wlan0 interface (Planex GW-CF11X) on my SL-C3200 using Sharp ROM.

- Using the desktop icon "Connect", my card wakes up, seems to scan the available networks, but then goes down after 1 minute. Note: I don't want to connect to any network, just bring it up and play with it, for example to list the available AccessPoints available in my area. Btw looking at /home/QtPalmtop/apps/__6x010netconnect.desktop shortcup, there is no "exec=" directive but an "Embedded=network_connect" but no network_connect command found in defaut paths...

- Using the terminal, I was not able to find out what commands where used to bring it up. I suspect this has something to with: cardctl scheme default (spits out some errors about not being able to ramwrite the prism2_pm.hex firmware), or cardctl scheme CardResume (does nothing)... I looked in /etc/wlan but there are a bunch of scripts and I can't find the good one.

I am very surprised that I can't find this answer on the web, this seems to be such a simple need. I just want to bring up my network card and then play with iwconfig, iwpriv and iwlist !

Please help..........
Title: Put Wifi Card Up (planex Gw-cf11x)
Post by: bluedevils on April 07, 2006, 02:41:41 pm
To view available networks you probably want to look into kismet and wellenreiter (I always spell it wrong).
Title: Put Wifi Card Up (planex Gw-cf11x)
Post by: enodr on April 07, 2006, 03:50:00 pm
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To view available networks you probably want to look into kismet and wellenreiter (I always spell it wrong).
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I have successfully installed Wellenreiter, but I need to "wake up" the card to use it (the default script does not work, ie just doing a cardctl CardResume and cardctl qpewlan0 does not work. I believe this is because the Planex need its firmware being uploaded first).

As the Zaurus has "etc" dirs everywhere I really can't understand what gets called when you click on the network connect icon. There must a script somewhere, but where??
Title: Put Wifi Card Up (planex Gw-cf11x)
Post by: /dev/null on October 02, 2007, 02:55:26 pm
Quote from: enodr
Note: I have posted this topic in Networking / Security, but it may be more appropriate here as it is a Sharp ROM related issue...


I have read all the topics related to wifi for two days and I haven't be able to do a very simple thing: I want to bring up the wlan0 interface (Planex GW-CF11X) on my SL-C3200 using Sharp ROM.

- Using the desktop icon "Connect", my card wakes up, seems to scan the available networks, but then goes down after 1 minute. Note: I don't want to connect to any network, just bring it up and play with it, for example to list the available AccessPoints available in my area. Btw looking at /home/QtPalmtop/apps/__6x010netconnect.desktop shortcup, there is no "exec=" directive but an "Embedded=network_connect" but no network_connect command found in defaut paths...

- Using the terminal, I was not able to find out what commands where used to bring it up. I suspect this has something to with: cardctl scheme default (spits out some errors about not being able to ramwrite the prism2_pm.hex firmware), or cardctl scheme CardResume (does nothing)... I looked in /etc/wlan but there are a bunch of scripts and I can't find the good one.

I am very surprised that I can't find this answer on the web, this seems to be such a simple need. I just want to bring up my network card and then play with iwconfig, iwpriv and iwlist !

Please help..........

hi enodr, does planex Gw-cf11x work  good with sharp rom? I try a cf wifi no problem (driver, modules etc)..
Title: Put Wifi Card Up (planex Gw-cf11x)
Post by: ljonesj on October 03, 2007, 11:02:58 am
i know from personaly the planex card works for the sharp rom and the sharp based roms

p.s. why did the site move i thought it went down permentaly i tried google and found it again thank goodness the site is great glad i found it again