IPW2200 wireless card failing to connect to Cisco 857W wireless router
Hi,
I am sending you some text files of outputs for the wireless attempts!
With the wireless connect I don't seem to be even able to associate at all any more with my wireless AP?? ----In the beginning I could but as soon as I ran ifconfig iwi0 dhcp it would disassociate. Now it doesn't work at all! Same config parameters where used as on SXCE b_111 which worked without a problem!
Under the file scan it has a hidden ssid but with bssid begining: 00:1a, the other hidden AP's are also mine but are 3Com wireless AP's in bridge mode not my Cisco router!
The wep key is a 40-bit hex key which should be 10 Hex digits and all put in fine, not sure why it's only showing 4 *'s though??
The file pkginfo shows that the driver SUNWipw is in the system.
prtconf is an output of prtconf -v.
profile shows you the profile I created for association with my wirelss AP.
Hope this helps you guys somehow. Just hope that I can figure out what's going on with my wireless as not being able to connect is difficult - means less time getting to know BeleniX as I can't do anything with it!!
Regards
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IPW2200 wireless card
Hi,
Forget about looking for a HotSpot or tilting your laptop at the airport to get a WiFi connection. It seems like most metro areas have EVDO Rev A coverage now, and most major cities have EVDO at least. When I tested the EVDO card I synchronized my mail using the 1xRTT network literaly in the middle of a desser in Arizona. It looks like the EVDO coverage in this area is pretty good.
http://www.niton.com
IPW2200 wireless card
Hi,
Forget about looking for a HotSpot or tilting your laptop at the airport to get a WiFi connection. It seems like most metro areas have EVDO Rev A coverage now, and most major cities have EVDO at least. When I tested the EVDO card I synchronized my mail using the 1xRTT network literaly in the middle of a desser in Arizona. It looks like the EVDO coverage in this area is pretty good.
http://www.niton.com
IPW2200 wireless card
I can't remember the command that I used to upgrade it was in an email from Sriram which I seem to have misplaced for the moment!
Basically using spkg there was an option to see all available upgrades and then I used spkg upgrade .... again followed by something else which I don't recall but upgraded me to version 0.8 based on build 111 was it??
Sorry I can't provide more information at this time.
IPW2200 wireless card failing to connect to Cisco 857W wireless
Hi,
I am sending you some text files of outputs for the wireless attempts!
With the wireless connect I don't seem to be even able to associate at all any more with my wireless AP?? ----In the beginning I could but as soon as I ran ifconfig iwi0 dhcp it would disassociate. Now it doesn't work at all! Same config parameters where used as on SXCE b_111 which worked without a problem!
Under the file scan it has a hidden ssid but with bssid begining: 00:1a, the other hidden AP's are also mine but are 3Com wireless AP's in bridge mode not my Cisco router!
The wep key is a 40-bit hex key which should be 10 Hex digits and all put in fine, not sure why it's only showing 4 *'s though??
The file pkginfo shows that the driver SUNWipw is in the system.
prtconf is an output of prtconf -v.
profile shows you the profile I created for association with my wirelss AP.
Hope this helps you guys somehow. Just hope that I can figure out what's going on with my wireless as not being able to connect is difficult - means less time getting to know BeleniX as I can't do anything with it!!
Regards
File attachments:
[pkginfo.txt]:
http://www.belenix.org/files/pkginfo.txt
[profile.txt]:
http://www.belenix.org/files/profile.txt
[prtconf.txt]:
http://www.belenix.org/files/prtconf.txt
[scan.txt]:
http://www.belenix.org/files/scan.txt
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Original attachments can be found at:
http://www.belenix.org/node/419
IPW2200 wireless card
I can't remember the command that I used to upgrade it was in an email from Sriram which I seem to have misplaced for the moment!
Basically using spkg there was an option to see all available upgrades and then I used spkg upgrade .... again followed by something else which I don't recall but upgraded me to version 0.8 based on build 111 was it??
Sorry I can't provide more information at this time.
IPW2200 wireless card
Thanks Moinak for the reply which evidently hasn't shown up here yet??
The link you gave me shows the output of 'wificonfig' when not run with any following syntax!
Hence again, a profile was created by using: 'wificonfig createprofile Cisco essid=Cisco encryption=wep wepkey1=abcd......'
Then initiating a connect sequence: 'wificonfig connect Cisco'
Bring up the wireless interface: 'ifconfig iwi0 up'
Finally use dhcp to obtain IP information: 'ifconfig iwi0 dhcp'
Before the upgrades it connected but as soon as 'ifconfig [...] dhcp' was run it disassociated.
Now I can't even connect. Using Sun literature I found a was to do this using 'dladm connect-wifi' which also didn't work.
As it is the syntax I am using to create the profile is the SAME as using SXCE which theoretically should have the same wificonfig version and same ipw driver version. Only now I cannot connect at all :-(
Using SXCE I had to always plumb the interface first then bring down the rtls0 wired interface before it would allow me to obtain IP information using dhcp. That was ok as I could at least connect but now I cannot at all!!
I have read that wificonfig v0.2 is needed in order to use wep. With the updates that probably is what is being run or a later version but why won't it even associate?
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P.s. for my other post about multimedia I will post the information soon, currently I am booted into Linux as where the laptop is has no wired connection making it impossible if I reboot to send or receive anything.
Also there seems to be really strange delay with these forums?? Is it being cached somewhere along the way I wonder as I am receiving emails acknowledgments of new posts but nothing showing..... oh well teething problems I guess
IPW2200 wireless card
Thanks Moinak for the reply which evidently hasn't shown up here yet??
The link you gave me shows the output of 'wificonfig' when not run with any following syntax!
Hence again, a profile was created by using: 'wificonfig createprofile Cisco essid=Cisco encryption=wep wepkey1=abcd......'
Then initiating a connect sequence: 'wificonfig connect Cisco'
Bring up the wireless interface: 'ifconfig iwi0 up'
Finally use dhcp to obtain IP information: 'ifconfig iwi0 dhcp'
Before the upgrades it connected but as soon as 'ifconfig [...] dhcp' was run it disassociated.
Now I can't even connect. Using Sun literature I found a was to do this using 'dladm connect-wifi' which also didn't work.
As it is the syntax I am using to create the profile is the SAME as using SXCE which theoretically should have the same wificonfig version and same ipw driver version. Only now I cannot connect at all :-(
Using SXCE I had to always plumb the interface first then bring down the rtls0 wired interface before it would allow me to obtain IP information using dhcp. That was ok as I could at least connect but now I cannot at all!!
I have read that wificonfig v0.2 is needed in order to use wep. With the updates that probably is what is being run or a later version but why won't it even associate?
----------------
P.s. for my other post about multimedia I will post the information soon, currently I am booted into Linux as where the laptop is has no wired connection making it impossible if I reboot to send or receive anything.
Also there seems to be really strange delay with these forums?? Is it being cached somewhere along the way I wonder as I am receiving emails acknowledgments of new posts but nothing showing..... oh well teething problems I guess