OESF Portables Forum
Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Angstrom & OpenZaurus => Topic started by: bigj on September 24, 2004, 08:35:37 pm
-
I've installed OZ 3.5.1 w/ the 64/0 image. When I insert my Pretec wlan card it binds it to eth0 and it doesn't work. I've been told that is should bind to wlan0. Anyway to force it to bind to wlan0 and could this be why my card isn't working? Thanks.
bigj
-
I'm using a Pretec CF WLAN card on OZ 3.5.1 (SL-5500, 64/0) with OPIE 1.1.6 and it works perfectly, usually without any additional configuration. It binds to eth0, and I've been leaving the networking set to 'any', and it associates right away with the access point (at which point the light on the card stops flashing and remains on). I've only used it with non-WEP APs so far.
Can you give more information on what happens when you try to use it? BTW, I've found that it seems to work best to power on the Z, plug in the card, then start Network... otherwise, go into the eth0 configuration menu, re-scan the neighborhood, and see if it will re-configure the setup automatically.
-
My Pretech had been working fine before upgrading to 3.5.1. After the upgrade it would bind to eth0 but not work; I noticed that ifconfig and friends were showing the wrong MAC address for the card. - and my AP was filtering on MAC addresses. ifconfig'ing it to the correct MAC solved the problem. Hope it does for you too.
-
The card finally started working. I did what you stated cyboreal and booted it up and then inserted the card. Once it a while it doesn't work after a hard reset. If I run 'udhcp' from the CLI it grabs and IP and off I go. I'll need to look into why dhcp is failing on it. Thanks.
bigj