Openzaurus 3.5.2 & Netgear Ma701

[sraun]

I've just flashed my SL-5500 to OpenZaurus 3.5.2, opie, 32+32.

I've got a CF memory card, but haven't been able to afford an SD one (yet).

I've got a Netgear MA701 CF network card, I can't get any connectivity.

I'm using an open WAP - no encryption, no nothing (yeah, I know - but I live in a house with steel siding - one of the things I want to do is test the Faraday Cage in the 802.11b spectrum. I know it's good for blocking TV!)

I've got DCP turned on. I've been poking and prodding - if I do a start/stop for wlan0 or wifi0, I get Signal 71%, Noise 71%, Quality 0%. IP address is currently showing 0.0.0.0 for both.

I've done a rescan neighborhood many times - nothing.

Green light on the card is flashing once or twice per second.

I've been going through the forums reading all the posts that say 'wireless' or 'netgear', and none of them helped.

If I eject and pull the card, the wifi0 and wlan0 connections disappear.

I'm very new to the Zaurus (I haven't had it a week yet) - suggestions? Preferably very detailed?

[drewb]

From the tools screen, select Network, choose wlan0, then click configure.  Set the mode to managed, then rescan the neighborhood.  You should see your AP come up.

Select it for your SSID and everything should work.

Also, there's a mistake floating around about /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf.  You should append this stanza to the hostap_cs.conf file:

card "NETGEAR MA701 Wireless CF Card"
   manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
   bind "hostap_cs"


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Drew

[dino]

I have a Netgear MA701 CF and OZ 3.5.2 also.  I have an access point with wep encryption turn on.  There was nothing special I did to get it running, it just worked.    You may want to edit your interfaces file by hand, eject your card, and then reinsert it.  My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like:

root@collie:/etc/network# cat ./interfaces
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(, ifdown(

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# Wireless interfaces
iface wlan0 inet static
        gateway 192.168.1.32
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        address 192.168.1.35
        wireless_key 1111111111 [1]  [2]  [3]  [4] open key [1]
        wireless_essid any
        wireless_mode Managed
iface atml0 inet dhcp

# Wired or wireless interfaces
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth1 inet dhcp

# Zaurus usbnet
iface usbd0 inet static
        gateway 192.168.129.200
        down changedns -r  129.162.80.2
        up changedns -a  129.162.80.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        address 192.168.129.201

root@collie:/etc/network#

[sraun]

From the tools screen, select Network, choose wlan0, then click configure.  Set the mode to managed, then rescan the neighborhood.  You should see your AP come up.

Select it for your SSID and everything should work.

Tried that, no joy.  

Also added the bit to hostap_cs.conf - made no difference.

When I go to eject the card, it's identified as a "ZCOMAX AirRunner/XI300" - I note that the last entry before what you said to add is for that card, and has identical information.

So, still not working.

[JohnKiniston]

I've got one of these cards, and so did a friend of mine.

My card always worked great with my Zaurus, His however only worked about 30% of the time, It would show up as a unknown memory card to the Z the rest of the time.

Have you tried to configure it by hand with konsole?

iwconfig wlan0 essid networkname
iwconfig wlan0 key hexkey
ifconfig wlan0 up
udhcpc wlan0

You can skip the iwconfig wlan0 key line if your not using wep encryption.

[sraun]

Tried these three commands - currently running no encryption.

iwconfig wlan0 essid networkname

No message, presume no problems

ifconfig wlan0 up

No message, presume no problems

udhcpc wlan0

This command got a response! And presumably a bad one.

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udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
SIOCGIFINDEX failed!: No such device
Suggestions?

[JohnKiniston]

After you did the iwconfigs and udhcpc does a ifconfig on wlan0 show an ip address from your access point?

Does a iwconfig wlan0 show it attached to your access point?

[sraun]

After you did the iwconfigs and udhcpc does a ifconfig on wlan0 show an ip address from your access point?

Nope - stil 0.0.0.0. Isn't that expected from the error message right after the udhcpc?

Does a iwconfig wlan0 show it attached to your access point?

Here's the output:

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ieee 802.11b ESSID: "my-wireless"
Mode: Managed  Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44  Bit Rate: 2Mb/s
Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8  RIS thr: off  Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/70 Signal level:-73dBm Noise level:-73dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0