Author Topic: Symbol Spectrum 24 Wifi Card On C1000 (Read 10024 times)

nilch · « **on:** April 14, 2005, 12:40:01 pm »

Allright, searched the forums and non of the solutions worked for me...

I plug in my Symbol Networker Card (wifi) and the light dont blink on when inserted, or even when I do the connect.

To get the connection globe icon - I did a wizard -> detect after changing the file /etc/pcmcia/spectrum.conf and commenting out line 3 and uncommenting line 2 etc

Do I have to make any entries to the wlan-ng.conf file to get this card to work ?

The card just stays idle and no lights light up at all (no blinking either).

Cardctl ident shows product info "Symbol..." with a manfid on Socket 0 but no product info available on Socket 1

iwconfig shows no wireless extensin son lo
and wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b .....

But there is a warning mesg - "Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 14 of Wireless Extensions while this program is using version 13. Some things may be broken... "

nilch · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2005, 02:24:48 pm »

an update

Only when I insert an entry for a LAN Card thru the Settings -> Network applet and then do connect, do I see the light on the Wifi card flashing, but if I remove the LAN card entry and instead do a Wireless LAN Card entry, then connect leads to no light activity at all on the card.

The point is with a LAN card entry, there is no way to put in the ESSID and WEK keys, so that must not be a solution
(as defined in this thread - https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...cket+wifi+card#
)

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ZeeUser said:

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To get the Symbol Wireless Networker working with the C3000:

Enter these commands into the terminal:
su
cd /home/etc/pcmcia
vi spectrum.conf

Delete the # from the begining of the second line
Enter a # at the beginning of the third line
Save the changes
Reboot

After trying that out I still had no luck. I deleted all previous wifi devices from list in the network setup then tried Settings -> Network -> Wizard -> detect. Clicked yes all the way through and it worked!

Let me know if the aforementioned doesn't work
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mtnkill · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2005, 10:59:46 pm »

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an update

Only when I insert an entry for a LAN Card thru the Settings -> Network applet and then do connect, do I see the light on the Wifi card flashing, but if I remove the LAN card entry and instead do a Wireless LAN Card entry, then connect leads to no light activity at all on the card.

The point is with a LAN card entry, there is no way to put in the ESSID and WEK keys, so that must not be a solution
(as defined in this thread - https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...cket+wifi+card#
)

I've been looking into the same thing. It's late, but the only thing I can find so far is that there doesn't appear to be a spectrum_cs library to bind to. Can anyone confirm? Going to bed.

shane

nilch · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2005, 11:32:38 pm »

This thread is the key
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1224

and this link for iwconfig usage
http://www.linuxforum.com/man/iwconfig.8.php

I am falling asleep right here so will explain in the morning - got to hit the sack.
But it worked :-)

nilch · « **Reply #4 on:** April 15, 2005, 11:49:10 am »

OK, to update my sleepy last post -

The trick to get the Spectrum24 Card to work on the C1000 was to follow these directons first

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To get the Symbol Wireless Networker working with the C3000:

Enter these commands into the terminal:
su
cd /home/etc/pcmcia
vi spectrum.conf

Delete the # from the begining of the second line
Enter a # at the beginning of the third line
Save the changes
Reboot

You can replace the reboot with this command as su in terminal
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

The reinsert your wireless card into the Zaurus.

Next in the Network app - select the wizard and " LAN Card" and do a detect and click yes onto the end - this will add a "Common LAN Card" to the settings (and not a Wireless LAN Card) - strange as it may seem but the LAN card at least brings to life the wireless card and I can see some light activity on the card.

To get connected with your wireless access point (even with WEP enabled)
go to terminal and enter the command

iwconfig eth0 essid "xxxxxxx" key <key code in hex>

Now you can click onthe globe connect button and say connect using the Common LAN card and lo and behold - its actually connects to the wireless internet.

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I dont know why the Wireless LAN Card setting never works.

I tried editing the Card info in Spectrum.conf and used the bind to "prism2_cs", but that doesnt work. I thought the Spectrum24 cards were prism based.

Also included card info in wlan-ng.conf, but still no go - at least this way I get a wlan and a lo interface, but that doesnt work really.

Its finally the eth0 interface setup by the LAN card that did the work (after the iwconfig command)

Thanks to all (in those threads).

mtnkill · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2005, 03:11:21 pm »

Great work, nilch. Works like a champ. The only issue I have with this method is that the iwconfig info. doesn't survive a reboot. I imagine you can put it in rc.local, or make an rc.net or somesuch, but I don't know if I'd be comfortable putting my WEP key in a plain-text file.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Mickeyl · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2005, 05:04:30 am »

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I tried editing the Card info in Spectrum.conf and used the bind to "prism2_cs", but that doesnt work. I thought the Spectrum24 cards were prism based.

Also included card info in wlan-ng.conf, but still no go - at least this way I get a wlan and a lo interface, but that doesnt work really.

prism-based is not enough

The spectrum24 cards use a prism chipset but it requires firmware uploading on insert/resume. This is what spectrum_cs is about.

nilch · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:08:39 pm »

Thanks Mickeyl for the explanation. Here I was tearing out my hair from my head trying to work out why binding to prism_2 will not work.

Its good to have guys like you around who explain things in plain terms to us bumbling fools. And particularly you - you have been of help from Python to QT to what not here in the forums.

All right, so here's another question :-)

While the setup I described does connect well to my Home AP with WEP on, it doesnt at all connect to the free public wifi hotspot at Bryant park for ex.

I have the command
iwconfig eth0 essid "bryantpark.org" -> no go
iwconfig eth0 essid "bryantpark.org" key off -> no go
iwconfig eth0 essid "bryantpark.org" enc off -> no go

How am I supposed to make it connect to a public wifi spot - any special tricks ?

JoP · « **Reply #8 on:** May 17, 2005, 03:35:30 pm »

nilch, I had exactly the same problem and was doing same things you did till I, finally, got to this thread.
Yes, it works now, but I don't really like things working "automagically"...
Besides, does anyone know which are the japanese options in wizard/wireless?

I'll try to go a bit inside the problem (as much as my limited knowing allows me ) and see if I can find some explanation, if not a way to fix it.

Thanks a lot for your work, guys! Now my C-1k can be used as it was supposed to.

I tried installing spectrum24 driver but I always get an error when decompressing files, have you noticed that? I downloaded the ipk several times. Should it be a different one for C-1k?

BTW, dmesg brings out nothing weird for me when detecting my Symbol card.

Ryo · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2005, 12:41:43 am »

Hi, I am a new Zaurus user. I still have the Japanese Qtopia and I am having trouble finding the terminal screen. I have never used Zaurus before, can anyone tell me how to access the terminal screen?
I have tried to click on everything...
Thanks.

nilch · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2005, 09:27:21 am »

Must be there in the CD that came with the Zaurus. It doesn't come installed by default.

Or else check out the feeds and you will find third party terminal programs (Konsole) which are even better - in terms of fonts for bette reading and functionality

One link I could find was this
http://www.externe.net/zaurus/feeds/6000/
should work on your Zaurus too hopefully, or just google for better sites

Allbest

Ryo · « **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2005, 09:45:37 pm »

Thanks for the response. I just found the qterminal on the install disk.
I think the problem was that I have trouble understanding Japanese...
It's my first linux pda...

Thank you again for the help.

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Must be there in the CD that came with the Zaurus. It doesn't come installed by default.

Or else check out the feeds and you will find third party terminal programs (Konsole) which are even better - in terms of fonts for bette reading and functionality

One link I could find was this
http://www.externe.net/zaurus/feeds/6000/
should work on your Zaurus too hopefully, or just google for better sites

Allbest
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maslovsky · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2005, 04:37:39 pm »

Just to let you know, guys, old Socket/Symbol cards are working perfectly with the current Cacko 1.23 development version without any tweaking. Just like it worked on previous Zaurus models. Stay tuned, Cacko 1.23 is coming soon

nilch · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2005, 06:03:34 pm »

Oh, all my tweaks and learing for nothing

But seriously I am glad Maslovsky to have this coming down the line - things working out of the box (or ROM in this case)

Cheers

oztrich · « **Reply #14 on:** August 04, 2005, 07:15:30 pm »

I picked up a C3100 to replace my C860 (man, I miss the Cacko ROM.... ) and I can't for the life of me get my Symbol Spectrum 24 CF card working.

Followed all the instructions in this thread to the letter and the card appears to connect ok. But when I fire up NetFront I get an error pop-up with 'TCP write error'.

Anyone else had this problem and managed to find a way round it?

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