* Oliver Vecernik ml@vecernik.at [20051218 18:38]:
Michael Prokop schrieb:
This should print all your NICs, right?
Maybe there ist another problem with the WG511T hardware, let's put it away and just talk about the integrated ORiNOCO.
Ok.
After a clean boot the hardware is now up and running with WEP (I just overtyped the key for obvious reasons):
# iwconfig eth1 eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"vds" Nickname:"HERMES I" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:87:B0:F6 Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=23/92 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Ok, fine.
# mount /mnt/sda # save-config -all -file /mnt/sda/config.tbz
After booting with the following params:
fb1280x1024 grml lang=at myconfig=/dev/sda
The network is down again. It seems, that eth1 is initialized and dhcp tries to get the values *before* the `config.tbz' is read.
I have to rerun grml-network to get the WLAN working again (configuration of ssid and key is loaded correctly). Can this be automated?
Ah, hmmmm.
After booting your system without touching grml-network: Does 'Restart networking' (run as root) work for you? Or booting with additional bootoption "services=networking"?
And the connection works as soon as you deactivate WPA?
Trying to use WPA is unsuccessful, because no driver initializes the card. Trying to use grml-network does not offer the choice for WPA.
I'll take a closer look at it in the next few days, maybe I can find some more details.
And the configuration in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is ok?
As far as I can see, yes. I run the ORiNOCO card with WPA with exactly this parameters under another OS. But this is not a really grml related issue or is there maybe a prob with a kernel mod?
Well, starting with kernel 2.6.13 some changes took place, yes. But - using the appropriate configuration, driver and hardware - it should work anyway of course. There are definitely guys out there using grml with WLAN cards and WPA. ;-)
*Maybe* using a more recent kernel fixes your problem. grml develrelease 0.5-3 provides 2.6.14-grml and in the next few days another (updated) develrelease will be available. Drop me a note if you want to get access to the ISO and you'll get a mail as soon as it's available. (It's available for grml-beta-testers - http://grml.org/beta-tester/)
Just add the following lines to your ~/.xinitrc:
export LANG="de_AT@euro" export LC_ALL="de_AT@euro" setxkbmap de
I appended it to .xinitrc, but this didn't work. After some search, I changed /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to XKEYBOARD="de". Now it's working.
Attention. :)
Do not append it, because then it would be executed right after running wmii. You have to place it *before* the "exec /usr/bin/wmii" line. (Some more documentation regarding language handling will follow, I'm working on it.)
regards, -mika-