Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:38:00 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: Pete Muller <pete_m@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running 2 wireless cards Message-ID: <20020920063800.GT208@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <00cf01c2606e$1fa7e0c0$6401a8c0@tulips> References: <00cf01c2606e$1fa7e0c0$6401a8c0@tulips>
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can you show your wicontrol scripts? and the output of "ifconfig -a"?
and of "wicontrol -i wi0" and "wicontrol -i wi1".
tell me whether i have this wrong: you have 2 cards in one computer, at
you're trying to get them both to communicate with a card in a laptop
running in host mode?
are either of the cards associating? if you assign wi1 an IP, say:
ifconfig wi1 inet 192.168.20.222
can you then ping the ip?
-Adam
>> (09.19.2002 @ 2322 PST): Pete Muller said, in 3.8K: <<
>
> Hi all,
>
> Old 233mhz Vectra, FBSD v4.5
>
> I'm struggling to get 2 Orinoco Silver .11b cards to run on FBSD v4.5. Each
> card is in an ISA adapter.
>
> The box does nat through the wired NIC to the world. (3Com 3C905 card)
>
> One wireless card is set up as the 192.168.10 network, the second being the
> 192.168.20 network.
>
> The problem I'm having is getting the *second* card to work. I can ping it,
> the lights are on, but the card is not talking. I've "wicontrol'd" this
> thing to death... trying every conceivable combination of settings, still
> with no luck. btw: I'm trying to talk to it using a Dell laptop running W2k
> with [another] Orinoco Silver card (same cards in the FBSD box).
>
>
> Here are the relevant parts of my config:
>
> ----- /etc/rc.conf ------->
>
> natd_program="/sbin/natd"
> natd_enable="YES"
> natd_interface="xl0"
> natd_flags="-dynamic"
> gateway_enable="YES"
> firewall_enable="YES"
> firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall"
> firewall_type="OPEN"
> firewall_quiet="NO"
> firewall_logging_enable="YES"
> log_in_vain="YES"
> #---- and here's the stuff for the PCMCIA adapter ----
> pccard_enable="YES"
> pccard_mem="DEFAULT"
> portmap_enable="YES"
> accept_sourceroute="NO"
> # script to configure first card (wi0)
> /usr/local/sbin/wireless.sh [[these are my wicontrol parameters]]
> # script to configure second card (wi1)
> /usr/local/sbin/wireless1.sh
>
> <<------ end of /etc/rc.conf -------
>
>
> ------- kernel config file ------>
>
> # PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
> device card
> # The first pair of lines are for direct assignment
> # The second pair of lines are for polling mode
> #device pcic0 at isa? irq 4 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000
> #device pcic1 at isa? irq 5 port 0x3e2 iomem 0xd4000
> device pcic0 at isa? port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000
> device pcic1 at isa? port 0x3e2 iomem 0xd4000
>
> <<-------- end of kernel config snippet -------
>
>
> I've experimented with direct port assignments... cards seem to both "come
> alive" either way. Currently running in polling mode.
>
>
> -------- /etc/defaults/pccard.conf ------->
>
> # Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE -- Dual Wireless NICs - test
> #
> card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
> config 0x1 "wi0" ?
> config 0x1 "wi1" ?
> insert /etc/pccard_ether "wi0" start
> insert /etc/pccard_ether "wi1" start
>
> <<-------- end of /etc/defaults/pccard.conf snippet --------
>
>
> -------- relevant lines of dmesg output ------->
>
> pccard: card inserted, slot 0
> pccard: card inserted, slot 2
> wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0
> wi0: Ethernet address: 00:02:2d:2b:4c:6d
> wi1: <WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x280-0x2bf irq 5 slot 2 on pccard2
> wi1: Ethernet address: 00:02:2d:0a:dd:7c
>
> <<-------- end of dmesg output snippet -------
>
> ====================
>
> The *only* thing I've noticed is a slight difference in what echos to the
> screen when the cards "come up" during bootup.
>
> The sequence I see/hear:
>
> - tone when wi0 comes up
> - a line echos to the screen similar to the wi0 line in dmesg
> - ~10 seconds later a second line echos spelling out config information of
> the interface (not the config of the card)
> - tone when wi1 comes up
> - a line echos to the screen similar to the wi1 line in dmesg
> - ~10 seconds later something like "pccard running" (or some simple two word
> message) echos
>
>
> These latter lines echoing to the screen (the final line that shows for each
> card during bootup) do *not* show in dmesg (sorry... I'm a
> beginner at this, so I don't know if I'm describing this correctly<g>).
> There is definitely a difference in what I'm seeing on the screen during
> bootup for the 2 cards.
>
> Card wi0 *always* works -- and I have *never* been able to "talk" to wi1....
> no matter what I've tried.
>
> Any suggestions for this rank beginner?
>
> Advice greatly appreciated.... thx
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>> end of "Running 2 wireless cards" from Pete Muller <<
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