Okay, I've been bludgeoning my skull with the walls of my apartment for
the past couple of days and I've made some progress but now I'm stumped.
I've got an SMC2632W on my Laptop which is using RedHat 6.1 with a
custome compiled kernel (2.4.1). I've finally got it so that it appears
that the card is talking to my DLink but for some reason I cannot access
the network.

Now, to test that I was actually connecting to the access point, I tried
blocking out my card's mac address using the settins on the access
point. Sure enough, when I activate the blocking the light on the card
started blinking and I got transmission errors. When I de-activated the
blocking everything was back to normal with a steady light. So, my
impression is that the card is talking to the base station.

So, at this point it APPEARS that everything's talking but yet I cannot
access the network for some reason.

When I insert the card, here's what I see:

Feb 23 00:42:52 localhost cardmgr[4061]: initializing socket 0
Feb 23 00:42:52 localhost cardmgr[4061]: socket 0: Intersil PRISM2
Reference Design 11Mb/s WLAN Card
Feb 23 00:42:52 localhost cardmgr[4061]: executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
Feb 23 00:42:52 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + modprobe: Can't locate module
prism2_cs
Feb 23 00:42:52 localhost cardmgr[4061]: modprobe exited with status 255
Feb 23 00:42:52 localhost cardmgr[4061]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.1/pcmcia/prism2_cs.o'
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.7 Loaded
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3,
io 0x0140-0x017f
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: ident: nic h/w: id=0x8002 1.0.0
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 0.3.0
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 0.7.6
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
MFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
CFI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x02:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
PRI:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x03:var=0x01:b/t=1/2
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
STA:SUP:role=0x00:id=0x04:var=0x01:b/t=1/4
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
PRI-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
STA-CFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x02:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel:
STA-MFI:ACT:role=0x01:id=0x01:var=0x01:b/t=1/1
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost kernel: Prism2 card SN: 39 39 53 41 30 31 30
30 30 30 30 30
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=1Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost
cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=false
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true
Feb 23 00:42:53 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=e2:35:48:55:11
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey1=29:2b:b5:1b:cc
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey2=3d:cd:22:0b:c8
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey3=97:c7:4d:a6:50
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_mibset
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
mibattribute=dot11DesiredSSID=pinochio
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + message=dot11req_associate
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + peerstaaddress=no_value
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: +
associatefailuretimeout=no_value
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + cfpollable=no_value
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + cfpollreq=no_value
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + privacy=no_value
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + listeninterval=0
Feb 23 00:42:54 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + resultcode=success
Feb 23 00:42:55 localhost cardmgr[4061]: + usage: /sbin/ifport interface
[auto|10baseT|10base2|aui|100baseT|##]

Okay, so after getting that if I run ifconfig I see:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:9E:73:97
         inet addr:10.0.0.10 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
         RX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0

Now, that's if I hard code the IP address. If I put in DHCP mode it
will try to look up an IP but fail. Now, I checked the DLink and sure
enough it is connecting to the network. My DHCP server is serving up an
IP address to it and I can ping it without a problem (if it matters, in
this case the DLink is running on IP 10.0.0.9).

So, I'm stumped. Does anybody out there have suggestions as to what
would cause this problem and how I might go about fixing it?

Thanks!

---Steve

 <mailto:sternobigbrother.net>

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