[driverloader] Dell True Mobile 1300 on Inspiron 8500 w/SuSE 8.2

[Art Fore]

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The iwlist scan resulted in

eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:30:AB:14:FD:90
                    ESSID:"Wireless"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.442GHz
                    Quality:1/1  Signal level:-26 dBm  Noise level:-200
dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s


I was getting the following on startup

eth1      ERROR:	command 'iwconfig eth1 mode Automatic' returned
	Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
	SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

I then went into Yast and changed the wireless configuration to Managed from Automatic and that stopped and I got an IP address. (Disconnected eth0 cable) However, when I tried to access the  network it would not work and I got this from the ifconfig.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0B:DB:97:5D:66
          inet6 addr: fe80::20b:dbff:fe97:5d66/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS 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:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 Memory:faffe000-fafff080

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:B2:5F:A4
          inet addr:10.0.208.38  Bcast:10.0.223.255  Mask:255.255.240.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:feb2:5fa4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:85 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:11650 (11.3 Kb)  TX bytes:1110 (1.0 Kb)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11476 (11.2 Kb)  TX bytes:11476 (11.2 Kb)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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)

I tried the scrip shown  in the email from linuxant at norddeutsche.de,

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth1 10.0.208.36 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig eth1 up
route add default gw 10.0.208.4
iwconfig eth1 essid Wireless

But the   
route add default gw 10.0.208.4

did not work.

As far as replacing the NVIDIA card, it would be a lot cheaper to 
replace the wireless card, if I can find one that is not Broadcom.

Guess I will try to find a wireless mini pci card that is not Broadcom 
that will fit.

Art



Linuxant support wrote:

>Hi,
>
>on one of our test machines, we have a problem attaching to an access point.
>We found out that it is an extremely strange incompatibility with the video
>card. The video card is an MSI Geforce 4 Ti4200. It works perfectly under
>windows, but not under Linux with the DriverLoader. If we swap the video
>card with an Asus V7700 Geforce 2 GTS, it also works.
>
>We can see the access point when we run "iwlist scan", but when we try to
>tranmit packets we get transmission errors in adapter's statistics.
>
>We are still investigating this issue.
>
>
>You can run "iwlist scan" from a root shell to verify if your adapter
>detects your access point.
>
>I notice that you have a NVidia based card. It would be great if you could
>swap it with a different graphic adapter and test again.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Jean-Simon Durand
>Technical specialist / Linuxant
>www.linuxant.com
>support at linuxant.com
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Art Fore" <afore at sonic.net>
>To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:34 PM
>Subject: [driverloader] Dell True Mobile 1300 on Inspiron 8500 w/SuSE 8.2
>
>
>Spent 6 hours trying to get this to work with the driverloader with no
>success. Looking at the warning file in Suse, it seems none of the
>commands it sends are valid. The diag is below. Does this really work
>with the Truemobile 1300?
>
>Art
>
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