Feisty wireless with orinoco

[Michele Zarri]

On 5/28/07, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:
> The latest progress getting Feisty to work with the Orinoco WiFi card
> on my T21 is ... none :-(
>
> I have just tried the Mepis 6.0 live DVD and this works fine, as does
> Knoppix.  Only Ubuntu seems to exhibit this problem (as below).
>
> I would appreciate any hints or tips.
>
> Many thanks,
>     Bruce
>
> On 26/04/07, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed Feisty on a Thinkpad T21 that was running sarge.
> >  I am having a problem getting Feisty to use my trusty orinoco
> > wireless card.  I have worked through the troubleshooting guide here:
> >
> >  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide
> >
> > ... but to no avail :-(
> >
> > Here´s what I see:
> >
> > lshw shows the following (which looks fine to me):
> > *-network
> >        description: Wireless interface
> >        physical id: 1
> >        logical name: eth1
> >        serial: 00:02:2d:66:7e:9c
> >        capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
> >        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15
> > firmware=Lucent/Agere 7.28 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b
> >
> > pccardctl ident (looks good too):
> > Socket 0:
> >   product info: "Avaya Communication", "Avaya Wireless PC Card",
> > "Version 01.01", ""
> >   manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
> >   function: 6 (network)
> >
> > iwconfig (again, just what I would expect for this network which uses
> > a very crude hidden ssid & MAC address filter and no encryption):
> > eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"setnet"  Nickname:"alice"
> >           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:39:8A:68:73
> >           Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
> >           Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Encryption key:off
> >           Power Management:off
> >           Link Quality=42/92  Signal level=-52 dBm  Noise level=-94 dBm
> >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> >
> > Even wavemon shows everything working just as I would expect.
> >
> > BUT when I try to start the network I get this:
> >
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> > DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> > No DHCPOFFERS received.
> >
> > If I use a static IP config it appears to be applied (or so says
> > wavemon) but I can´t ping anything.  I get ¨no route to host¨.
> >
> > It is as if there is a disconnect between the orinoco hardware+drivers
> > (which all look good) and the Linux socket stuff (which seems to be
> > unable to connect to the orinoco stuff).
> >
> > Can anyone please point me to documentation I missed or perhaps give
> > me some tips?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >     Bruce
>
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Hello Bruce,

I use my laptop (compaq + Orinoco USB WLAN) with Ubuntu for business
and I really need the WLAN access therefore I did not dare to upgrade
to Feisty yet. Having said that,  in 2 weeks time I will have
sufficient time to give a try to feisty and eventually revert to edgy
if things go wrong. So if you can hold on a bit more I will tell you
how it went for me.

The only real issue for me is to find a compelling reason why I should
upgrade to Feisty (which I have currently installed on my desktop at
home).

Cheers,

Michele