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

[Art Fore]

New discovery. In windows, the network card ip address is 10.0.208.36 
and interrupt 11, the wireless at 10.0.208.38, interrupt 5. (all from DHCP)

In Linux (from DHCP), the ip address are the same as in windows, but the 
wireless driver, bcmwl5driverloader, is interrupt 11, same as NVIDIA and 
several other items. This makes no sense at all. How can the wireless be 
interrupt 5 in windows and 11 in Linux? Also the interrup for the 
network card is not shown.

Also, in windows, I normally do not connect the network card cable and 
the wireless is still 10.0.208.38 and it works.

Can anyone explain what is happening?

Art

Art Fore wrote:

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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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