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Title: Planex Wireless Card Not Working
Post by: mivilleb on October 15, 2006, 07:19:31 am

Hi,

I installed OpenZaurus (3.5.4.1) on my akita and now my Planex card GW-CF11X does not work anymore. I used to work with the original Sharp ROM and Cacko 1.23.

The details:

Socket 0:
  product info: "PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS INC.", "PLANEX GW-CF11X Wireless CF Card", "", ""
  manfid: 0xd601, 0x0010
  function: 6 (network)

Is it possible to make it work on OpenZaurus?

The network tool does not show the MAC address for the card under wlan 0.

Thanks for any help,

Bernard

Title: Planex Wireless Card Not Working
Post by: daufoo on October 15, 2006, 08:58:00 pm

Mine is Terrier, I'm using the same card as you and 3.5.4.1 (Oz/OPIE), I have no problem getting it work.

When you say it does not work, what exactly does the card resposne? Does the led flashing?

Also, are you using WEP or PSA?
I failed to connect to my network (WEP enabled) before, then I realise I have to do a search (one of the option in network settings) for it to find the AP.

It might not be the problem you had though (since you mentioned you can't even display the MAC address of your card), just wonder if it is activated or not.

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Hi,

I installed OpenZaurus (3.5.4.1) on my akita and now my Planex card GW-CF11X does not work anymore. I used to work with the original Sharp ROM and Cacko 1.23.

The details:

Socket 0:
  product info: "PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS INC.", "PLANEX GW-CF11X Wireless CF Card", "", ""
  manfid: 0xd601, 0x0010
  function: 6 (network)

Is it possible to make it work on OpenZaurus?

The network tool does not show the MAC address for the card under wlan 0.

Thanks for any help,

Bernard
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Title: Planex Wireless Card Not Working
Post by: DaemonsGR on October 16, 2006, 05:30:17 pm

I use it perfectly with OZ!
Give as more info plz.

Title: Planex Wireless Card Not Working
Post by: mivilleb on October 16, 2006, 07:03:38 pm

Hi,

I do not have much more info. Using cardclt ident gives:

Socket 0:
  product info: "PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS INC.", "PLANEX GW-CF11X Wireless CF Card", "", ""
  manfid: 0xd601, 0x0010
  function: 6 (network)

(this is a prism3 card).

When I put the card in, it does say:

Succesfully activated card in socket #0

The Link green light does not come on, like it used to do with Cacko.

When I go to the Network software, it does show a choice for:

Ethernet  (wlan0)

with the arrow down.

When I eject the card the Ethernet (wlan0) says disconnected. So OZ does do something with the card but what I do not know.

I click on Configure (With Ethernet wlan0 highlighted) and the DHCP is selected, which is what I want, but I can not find anyplace to setup WEP or SSID.

When I click on Start/Stop the IP address is 0.0.0.0, the Subnet Mask is 0.0.0.0 the MAC Address and Broadcast fields are empty.

I click on start and it fails.

Since there is no Mac address in the field, I guess OZ did not recognized the card properly.

When I try Wellenreiter II, and start snifer it says:

Can't bring interface 'wlan0' up. No such file or directory even if the Network software says that there is an Ethernet card with wlan0!

What can I do to make my WiFi card work?

Any help will be relly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bernard