[driverloader] Belkin F5D7000 and Red Hat 9 [eid-20040531-c48]

[Dave Lichtenstein]

Woo-Hoo!! I'm connected! This is my first email sent from Linux! Your
final suggestion to change the line in ifcfg-wlan0 did the trick. It
seems pretty cool that I'm able to use a state of the art periferal
(Belkin F5D7000 wireless 802.11g) with Linux. Thanks to driverloader!
Jonathan you've been great help. Thanks! I'm going to give this a few
days to check for stability and then you'll most certainly receive my
$19.95.

For reference here's the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:

# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
USERCTL=3Dno
PEERDNS=3Dyes
GATEWAY=3D
TYPE=3DWireless
DEVICE=3Dwlan0
HWADDR=3D
BOOTPROTO=3Ddhcp
NETMASK=3D
ONBOOT=3Dyes
DHCP_HOSTNAME=3D
IPADDR=3D
NAME=3D
DOMAIN=3D
ESSID=3Dbelkin54g
CHANNEL=3D11
MODE=3DAuto
KEY=3D1111111111
RATE=3DAuto

Note: Nothing shows up in network devices using redhat-config-network. I
guess that's not important?

Also, I have this line in etc/modules.conf:=20

alias wlan0 driverloader

(I may have added that manually. Is it important?)

Anyway, it's working! Thanks again.

Dave

----- Original Message -----

From: Linuxant support (Jonathan) [support at linuxant.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:40 AM
To: dave at electricseaturtle.com
Subject: Re: [driverloader] Belkin F5D7000 and Red Hat 9
[eid-20040531-c48]

Hi,

please edit the file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0' and
change the line :

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DEVICE=3Deth1

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to

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DEVICE=3Dwlan0

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Then, try again all the same commands from the previous email and send
us again the output of these commands.

Regards,


Jonathan

Technical specialist / Linuxant

www.linuxant.com

support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message -----

From: dave at electricseaturtle.com
To: support at linuxant.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: [driverloader] Belkin F5D7000 and Red Hat 9
[eid-20040531-c48]

Ok, here's the info you requested. A couple of notes:


1. the signal level is listed as: signal level:-53 dBm. I don't know if
this is high or low but the adaptor registers "excellent" signal
strength when I'm on XP and I have a laptop next to me which receives
the same "excellent" signal strength from the AP.
2. In places the essid and wep key seem not set for wlan0. I've set
these over and over again using iwconfig but they keep getting reset
(probably when the device fails to get activated with
redhat-config-network. (I tried disabling wep on the AP for testing
purposes but the stupid windows adaptor config interface can't seem to
accept that wep has been turned off and I wasn't able to connect. I, of
course will try this again if this is an issue.)

Thanks for your help!

Dave

-----Original Message-----

From: Linuxant support (Jonathan) [mailto:support at linuxant.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:21 AM
To: dave at electricseaturtle.com
Subject: Re: [driverloader] Belkin F5D7000 and Red Hat 9
[eid-20040531-c48]

Hi,

everything seems fine, the module is correctly loaded and we can see
access
points in the output of the 'iwlist scanning' command. The wireless
configuration you have done for the 'wlan0' device seems to be
correctly
entered.

The problem is probably related to IP routing. Please send us the
output
of
the following commands entered in a root shell while you are close to
the
access point you are trying to connect to.

---
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

iwlist wlan0 scanning

ifdown wlan0

ifup wlan0

ifconfig -a

iwconfig

ip route

ip addr

cat /etc/resolv.conf

ping www.linuxant.com -I wlan0 -c 5

ping 63.246.159.50 -I wlan0 -c 5

tail -f -n 30 /var/log/messages

---

Regards,

Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com

----- Original Message -----

From: dave at electricseaturtle.com
To: support at linuxant.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: [driverloader] Belkin F5D7000 and Red Hat 9
[eid-20040531-c48]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your speedy replies on all this. I think I'm almost
there...?
No, I can't configure the device with redhat-config-network. My adaptor
is not listed and if I choose something else I get an error when I try
to activate. So attached is the latest driverloaderdiag file. Hope you
can help me to get this thing to work! It seems close...

Thanks.

Dave