Wireless driver packages for Puppy2

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BlackAdder · #16 Post by **BlackAdder** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 00:54

tempestuous,
The rt2500 dot pup works fine for me too. It did not seem to need the qt3 pup get either. Once installed, the module gets loaded automagically during the boot sequence. Must find out how.
Did a crude speed comparison by downloading from Mark's dot pup site. The file was 3.3MB. Results:

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rt2500 linux driver
test 1     48 secs
test 2     57 secs
ndiswrapper
test 1     45 secs
test 2     57 secs

There was a reboot betwen tests. I have no idea why the speeds were slower on the second test of each config. The speed would not have been gated by the link speed (ADSL 512Kbps) - should have really done an ethernet download for comparison.
edit 14June - The above comment was totally wide of the mark. Must get my head together some time. Of course the line speed would be the constraining factor. Will try again using local machine to machine transfer some time soon.

BlackAdder · #17 Post by **BlackAdder** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 01:14

Raffy,
The wifi dot pup contains listings of adapters known to be supported by the included drivers. The listings are part of the HowTo.
The list below (extracted from the HowTo) would also relate to tempestuous' rt2500 dot pup that was recently posted. The lists were constructed from an examination of the .inf files, the ndiswrapper wiki and whatever other sources yielded useful stuff.

Driver file: rt2500

VID:PID 1814:0201

Ralink RT2500 Wireless LAN Card
ASUS 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Card
ZPlus-G361 802.11g WLAN PCI Adapter
ZPlus-G360 802.11g WLAN mini-PCI Adapter
ZPlus-G160 802.11g WLAN CardBus Adapter.
AT&T Plug&Share 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter
AT&T Plug&Share 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Adapter
AMIT 802.11 g Wireless LAN PC Card
AMIT MINI 802.11 g Wireless LAN PC Card
AMIT PCI 802.11 g Wireless LAN PC Card
CastleNet WP1280 802.11 g Wireless LAN Card
Edimax EW-7108 Series 802.11g Wireless LAN PC Card
Edimax EW-7128 Series 802.11g Wireless LAN PCI Card
Hawking HWC54GR Hi-Speed Wireless-G CardBus Card
Hawking HWP54GR Hi-Speed Wireless-G PCI Card
Gigabyte WIKG mini PCI WLAN Card
Gigabyte WMKG Cardbus WLAN Card
Billionton 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN Card
Also 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN Cards from ASUS, AMIGO, QCOM, WLAN

Obviously, not all adapters have been tested as working with Puppy.
There is a list of working adapters (Puppy1) on the wiki. In many cases the identification of adapters is somewhat vague because the maker gives very little information.
How do you think we might consolidate and extend the lists and make them easily accessible?

pakt · #18 Post by **pakt** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 06:32

pakt wrote: I finally had a chance to test two cards that have rt2500 chipsets: ASUS WL-107G and Gigabyte GN-WMKG.
<text removed>
These tests where done using the 'standard' Puppy2 kernel. I'll test with my speedstep kernel as soon as I can and report back.

I re-ran the tests using my Puppy2 speedstep-kernel. The cards worked as before. I also tested with the wlan card in the bottom PCMCIA slot and a USB2 adapter card in the upper slot of an IBM Thinkpad T20. The wlan card was almost hidden under the USB card...

Results: Both cards worked fine. I had booted Puppy2 from a USB pen plugged into the USB2 adapter (fast and versatile

). Connection quality went down to 87/100 from 88/100

Btw, as I am on dial-up, my modem is THE bottleneck and so a throughput test would seem to be meaningless

Paul

BlackAdder · #19 Post by **BlackAdder** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 08:39

Tested the acx100 driver witha D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA adapter.
Process was as follows:

copied the firmware to /lib/firmware and renamed the .bin files as recommended.
modprobe acx
this loaded without errors and the card light flashed - presumably as the result of the firmware being downloaded.
iwconfig .....
adapter shows as wlan0. as expected
dhcpcd .....

no association with the router, and the following error message in dmesg:

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wlan0: association FAILED: peer sent response code 18 (Assoc denied: requesting STA doesnt support all data rates in basic set)
get_mask 0x00000000, set_mask 0x00000000 - after update
acx_set_status(0):STOPPED
closed device

Google showed others with the same problem. A similar recent report was found on the Linux Format site.
Close, but no cigar yet....sorry. Any suggestions?
ndiswrapper works okay, but there was a user complaint about peaks of high procesor usage. Not seeing that myself.

smog · #20 Post by **smog** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 12:56

I installed the ipw3945 dot.pup and eth0 was created but I am not able to configure the device using ifconfig or iwconfig because when I use these commands for setting essid and the key it says the operation is not allowed.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

tempestuous · #21 Post by **tempestuous** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 15:47

BlackAdder wrote:copied the firmware to /lib/firmware and renamed the .bin files as recommended.
modprobe acx
this loaded without errors and the card light flashed - presumably as the result of the firmware being downloaded.

Sounds about right. Let's check the exact details - according to http://acx100.erley.org/acx_fw/acx1xx.htm -
RADIO11.BIN renamed to tiacx100r11 and
WLANGEN.BIN renamed to tiacx100

... but there's a report here http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? ... _id=257272
that there's a different DWL-650+ (with Maxim radio) which needs different firmware.
dmesg will show "requesting firmware image 'tiacx100c0D'" The critical part is "0d" If so, you need -

ACX100.bin renamed tiacx100 and
RADIO0d.BIN renamed tiacx100r0d

tempestuous · #22 Post by **tempestuous** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 15:49

smog,
I need more information, like the output of dmesg after each step ...
but are you sure that eth0 is your wifi interface? It might be your LAN interface.
eth1 might be what you need.

smog · #23 Post by **smog** » Tue 13 Jun 2006, 19:18

tempestuous

Thanks for responding so fast.

I have tried to bring up both eth0 and eth1 but neither works.

I have copied a bit of the dmesg output which seems to refer to the IPW3945.

If you could try to point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it because I love Puppy but I need to use wireless.

Thanks again.

dmesg output is:

ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corproation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.0.0
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

When I try to set the essid I get:
# Error for wireless request "set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not supported.

eth1 gives the same result except the final comment is "No such device"

tempestuous · #24 Post by **tempestuous** » Wed 14 Jun 2006, 00:35

First give us details of your hardware - laptop brand and model, and internal wifi adaptor model, if known.
Boot up, but don't modprobe the driver yet.

1. Run "ifconfig". Report.
2. Run "iwconfig". Report.
3. Load the driver - "modprobe ipw3945" and run "dmesg". Report.
4. Run "ifconfig". Report.
5. Run "iwconfig". Report.

BlackAdder · #25 Post by **BlackAdder** » Wed 14 Jun 2006, 00:39

Success!

The DWL-650+ adapter has the original acx100 hardware. It is now working. My problem was that there were two versions of WLANGEN.BIN sculling around, and I was using the wrong one.
Thanks, tempestuous for your patience.

For others who have the DWL 650+ adapter:

After you have installed acx100-20060215.pup
download the two files ....RADIO11.BIN and .....WLANGEN.BIN_1.9.8.b (the full names are much longer) from the section labelled dlink_dwl650+ at http://acx100.erley.org/acx_fw/acx1xx.htm
Move or copy the files to /lib/firmware
rename WLANGEN.BIN to tiacx100
rename RADIO11.BIN to tiacx100r11
now you can use modprobe acx; iwconfig... and either dhcpcd or ifconfig etc. as outlined in the dot pup readme.

This driver supports a wide range of TI-based adapters, but each needs its own firmware, making the install process a bit trickier than for some others. I should know, having fallen into at least one trap.

smog · #26 Post by **smog** » Wed 14 Jun 2006, 15:57

Tempestuous

My laptop is a Samsung Q35 Centrino Duo. As far as I can tell, I assume the wireless card is an Intel PRO 3945ABG, is there any other card on Centrino?

The outputs from the commands you want are included below.

I have got my Q35 working using the IPW3945 linux driver in Ubuntu, which I am using now, so I hope I can get it working in Puppy too.

Thanks for your input.

Hope this is enough info.:

ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

dmesg
024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH7: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1d.2
ICH7: chipset revision 2
ICH7: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MHV2080AH PL, ATA DISK drive
hdb: DV-W28EA, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 141398112 sectors (72395 MB)
native capacity is 156301488 sectors (80026 MB)
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0x37
hda: 141398112 sectors (72395 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
libata version 1.20 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x25a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 5, io base 0x00001820
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 5, io base 0x00001840
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 5, io base 0x00001860
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001880
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 5, io mem 0xd8444000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
hdb: ATAPI 63X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 1419kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Registering unionfs 20060417-0541
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Adding 1228916k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1228916k
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:05.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:05:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.5
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:00:f0:7f:0f:0e
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:05:09.0
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:05:09.0 [144d:c504]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0298, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xd8000000 - 0xd80fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x60000000 - 0x61ffffff
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/k ... cmcia.html for details.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown

ran dotpup and modprobed ipw3945, then did ifconfig eth0 up

iwconfig gave no change from above
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F0:7F:0F:0E
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:5

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

dmesg
irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 141398112 sectors (72395 MB)
native capacity is 156301488 sectors (80026 MB)
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0x37
hda: 141398112 sectors (72395 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
libata version 1.20 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x25a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 5, io base 0x00001820
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 5, io base 0x00001840
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 5, io base 0x00001860
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001880
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 5, io mem 0xd8444000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
hdb: ATAPI 63X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 1419kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Registering unionfs 20060417-0541
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Adding 1228916k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1228916k
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:05.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:05:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:05:09.5
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:00:f0:7f:0f:0e
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:05:09.0
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:05:09.0 [144d:c504]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0298, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xd8000000 - 0xd80fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x60000000 - 0x61ffffff
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/k ... cmcia.html for details.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.0.0
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

BlackAdder · #27 Post by **BlackAdder** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 01:16

Checked out transfer speeds between machines using an rtl8180-based adapter (802.11b). Each test was run just twice; the file transferred was 4995KB; one machine attached via ethernet to the router, the machine using wireless was 3m from the router. Results:

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r8180 driver     17 secs
ndiswrapper      16 secs

Given that the timing was done by simple observation, there does not seem to be a really significant difference in speed under those conditions. Rate was around 300KB/sec or 2.5Mbps, a long way below the rated speed of the wireless adapter - but not unexpected.

tempestuous · #28 Post by **tempestuous** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 01:19

dmesg shows these 2 lines -

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b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)
...
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:00:f0:7f:0f:0e

As I suspected, eth0 is your ethernet adaptor, a Broadcom BCM4400 series. Puppy has loaded the opensource b44 module for it ... which may not work. You might need the proprietary bcm4400 driver ... but that's another story.

And I just read about an important extra step which is not included in the README. So try this -

modprobe ipw3945
## now we need to start the regulatory daemon
/sbin/ipw3945d
## now bring up the wifi interface - eth1 in your case
ifconfig eth1 up

Now run ifconfig and iwconfig to see if eth1 looks healthy. If so, continue to set up the connection with "iwconfig eth1 ..."

fudgy · #29 Post by **fudgy** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 10:29

Hi,

My question is how the hostap driver works with prism2/2.5 cards.
~# ifconfig wlan0 up
~# iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed essid test key 1:2:3:4:5:6
ok, then
~# dhcpcd wlan0 hangs,
~# dhcpcd wifi0 works.

I can connect to AP's, but not manually. All i know is, that starting WAG at this point, then push 'Toggle DHCP' works.. I wanted to know how i can get it to work from the console (which commands) yust to learn something about whats happening here.

Do you have any experience ?

fudgy

tempestuous · #30 Post by **tempestuous** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 11:04

There are two amendments I need to make to the hostap_README -
1. after "modprobe hostap_cs" run "ifconfig wlan0 up"
2. before running dhcpcd do this - "rm /etc/dhcpc/*.pid"

Now "dhcpcd wlan0" might work OK (?).
Or, keenerd could jump in and tell us what WAG does differently.

With Linux wifi drivers, "wifi0" is usually a "placeholder" or "virtual interface" for the true interface.

smog · #31 Post by **smog** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 12:08

Tempestuous,

You are an absolute genius!!!!!!

I am writing this on my fully working wireless link on PUPPY 2 using the IPW3945 dotpup.

What can I say, this is fantastic. Thanks VERY much

Cheers

(I assume from your location you are an Australian. I now have to say I won't even begrudge you winning the Ashes back this year because of the help you have given me!!!)

fudgy · #32 Post by **fudgy** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 12:52

[quote="tempestuous"]
[...]
With Linux wifi drivers, "wifi0" is usually a "placeholder" or "virtual interface" for the true interface.[/quote]

thank you, no its only dhcpcd is not backgrounding with wlan0... so it looks like this:

sh-3.00# iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
-> Interface is down after changeing mode, so followed by
sh-3.00# ifconfig wlan0 up
sh-3.00# iwlist wlan0 scan [you should see scan results... or interface down...]
sh-3.00# iwconfig wlan0 essid test key 1:2:3:4:5:6
sh-3.00# dhcpcd wlan0 &
[1] 24994
sh-3.00# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:2D:41:C8
inet addr:192.168.0.6 (...)

thats all. Great work. Thanks.

fudgy

tempestuous · #33 Post by **tempestuous** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 13:46

Good news smog. I will amend the ipw3945 README shortly.
I don't assume the Ashes will return to Australia next time. It appears the English now have a good cricket team.

fudgy, do you think that the dhcpcd command should always be backgrounded as you did?

smog · #34 Post by **smog** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 17:17

tempestuous

To put the finishing touch to this I am trying to automate the process of connecting the wireless access on boot. I have put all the commands (including the /sbin/ipw3945d) into the ipw3945-connect file but this doesn't seem to work, should I be doing something different?

If this is not an easy answer don't worry about spending time on it, it is not essential.

Thanks again

fudgy · #35 Post by **fudgy** » Thu 15 Jun 2006, 18:35

/* fudgy, do you think that the dhcpcd command should always be backgrounded as you did? */

-- no, actually i would recommend it for people with prism-card + Texas Instruments PCMCIA adaptor + Intel Chipset. Not more. It might be difficult to figure out why this happens.

We should wait a few days, maybe there's more feedback. If its really important one may ask the dhcpcd-devels and/or on Netstumbler forum. (Ch.Devine e.g.)

-- By default, the hostap_cs starts in mode Master. Likely this is on all machines. This means, if you type:
~# iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed essid wropen
then the interface will go down. This guy was confused by exactely this one:
http://www.netstumbler.org/showthread.p ... ght=dhcpcd

Greetings,
fudgy

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