New kernel for Orinico/Symbol/Socket users

[Laze]

javab0y - there is no way to pm you - but e-mail at mss[at]stofa[dot].dk

[Anonymous]

Laze,

When I get on my other machine (Linux) I will email you the kernel...I am 99% sure the hostap drivers will work for you.

Yzord,

Please try the following...apparently the wlan-ng.conf has bad info for the prism_cs driver...use this instead of the other WCF12 reference in the wlan-ng.conf:

card \"Linksys WCF12 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card\"
version \"Linksys\", \"Wireless CompactFlash Card\"
bind \"prism2_cs\"

Also, remove the entry from the host_ap.conf please.  Then reboot.  I am hopeful this will work for you. If it does not, try this in the wlan-ng.conf:

card \"Linksys Wireless CompactFlash Card\"
manfid 0x028a, 0x0673
bind \"orinoco_cs\"

Reboot again.  Report back if either of these was successful.

[Laze]

javab0y: Will \"normal wifi\" then also work?

[Anonymous]

Yes it should.  Actually hostap is one of the more \"thorough\" drivers...so I think you will me fine.

[Laze]

Okay - looking forward to try it..

[Laze]

javab0y - didn\'t get anything from you :-)

[Anonymous]

Laze,

I just sent it, but you won\'t receive it until tomorrow because I just switched ISPs and the DNS needs to propogate (your provider is rejecting the mail because it can\'t find my domain).  Check your mail and as soon as the DNS propogates (likely beginning after midnite PST), you should be good to go.

[Laze]

Super..

[yzord]

Yzord,

Please try the following...apparently the wlan-ng.conf has bad info for the prism_cs driver...use this instead of the other WCF12 reference in the wlan-ng.conf:

card \"Linksys WCF12 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card\"  
version \"Linksys\", \"Wireless CompactFlash Card\"  
bind \"prism2_cs\"

Also, remove the entry from the host_ap.conf please.  Then reboot.  I am hopeful this will work for you. If it does not, try this in the wlan-ng.conf:

card \"Linksys Wireless CompactFlash Card\"  
manfid 0x028a, 0x0673  
bind \"orinoco_cs\"  

Reboot again.  Report back if either of these was successful.

Okay, the first method did not work, same issues as before, yadda yadda yadda.

However, the second method worked (using the orinoco driver)! After a bit of coaxing, (cardctl reset, followed by CardResume, then qpewlan0), iwconfig came up with eth0 having a bunch of info. At this point, runnning wellenreiter and setting the name to eth0, plus autoconfig will use the orinoco driver, allows it to work.

However, there is some issues though. At this point, Kismet is not working anymore (understandable, as it is using a non prism2 driver) and I\'m not sure if I can go online anymore (cant seem to connect properly). I will do some more tests later and report as to wifi usage.

Anyone know how to use the graph in Wellenreiter?

Yz

[Anonymous]

Yzord,

Did you edit the kismet.conf file to use the orinoco driver?

[yzord]

Hey javab0y,
Thanks for the tip about the kismet.conf driver setting- unfortunately, it didnt work (\"source=orinoco,eth0,kismet\"),. Kismet now wont work at all (gives me a \"Cannot connect to Server\" error everytime).

Also, I realized something that makes the orinoco driver impossible to keep for long term use. While it will work fine with Wellenreiter, changing the driver to orinoco_cs makes the Z recognize the wifi card as a LAN card instead. Because of this, the network connector will not allow me to use the WIFI connection settings to log into access points (as it thinks it\'s a lan card). Therefore, it\'s impossible to use it like a normal wifi card... Is there a way around this (like making it come up as wlan0 instead of eth0)?

Yz

[Anonymous]

Hmmmm...that one I have to think about...I run my wifi card on eth0 all the time.  At any rate, I would assume that you should be able to bind the wifi card to wlan0 with a few ifconfig calls.  I need to look/think about this.

As for the kismet issue..when you get the cannot connect to server...do you have the rest of the output?  That typically means the kismet_monitor and server didn\'t fire up to listen on 2501.  You may wish to fire these up one at a time.  There should be other error messages when you run it...that show the problem in greater detail.  Run it from the command line and you will see the problems.  Also...what version of Kismet are you running?

[crazy-b]

javab0y: could I get a version of your kernel with hostap-drivers, too? or do you plan to make them public? Since I have a prism2 card, which works with the wlan-ng-drivers, but I\'d really like to have wireless extensions and iwpriv working (corrently showing 0 private ioctls)

[ZeeUser]

I have been trying for the past two days to get Wellenreiter II working with the latest version of theKompany ROM, with no success. Extensive searches of the Sharp and ZUG forums led me to the javab0y kernel. A post in this thread mentions that after the kernel update the Version tab of the Sytem Info app should show \"Compiled by:
javab0y@savoirtech.com\". However, after numerous updates it still shows \"compiled by: root@localhost.localdomain\". Iwconfig confirms that there are still no wireless extensions.  Here are the steps I took to flash the kernel:
1) Extracted zImage.bin from RAR archive
2) Placed zImage.bin and updater.sh (from latest tkcROM) in root of empty, FAT-formated SD card
3) Followed instructions here

I also tried the kernel update with an empty, FAT-formated CF card. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!



Zaurus SL-C760
tkROM 2.5.1
Netgear MA701 CF WI-FI Card
256MB Panasonic SD
128MB Sandisk CF

[Richjn]

ZeeUser

The kernel that displays root@localhost etc is mine there are three available from ZUG downloads and all supply wireless exstensions.

Toi check if you have wireless exstensions functioning.

1) Insert your wifi card
2) Connect to AP
3) From the console type iwconfig

If you get some text about wireless your up.

To install Wellenreiter you need wellenreiter libpcap libopie1 libopie2 which if you are using a 7/8x0 with tkc rom 2.5.1 is all available from the proto feed.

Richard