wlan0 on breezy with belkinF5D6020 pcmcia card

Thu Nov 17 22:41:03 UTC 2005

brian wrote:
> Hello All: just got Breezy running on my hpominbook xe4100 notebook.
> It's great - all's fine except my belkin pcmcia card. wlan0 won't come
> up. Here's what I get: ndiswrapper installs fine but 'sudo ifup wlan0'
> gives:
> 
> brian at thefergies:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
> Password:
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> Failed to bring up wlan0.
> 
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> brian at thefergies:~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
> # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
> mapping hotplug
>         script grep
>         map eth0
> 
> # The primary network interface
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid easynote
> #iface wlan0 inet static
> #wireless-channel 11
> #wireless-mode managed
> #wireless-rate 11M
> #wireless-key 1234567890
> #wireless-txpower 20
> #address 192.168.1.33
> #netmask 255.255.255.0
> #gateway 192.168.1.1
> 
> auto eth0
> 
> auto wlan0
> 
> 
> I commented out those lines thinking there may be a problem with them (I
> don't really know what they all mean anyway)
> I started looking in 'dmesg' and found lots of errors with ndiswrapper
> telling me to look in syslog. Here's what I've found in syslog:
> 
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.730000] ndiswrapper version
> 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] kmem_cache_create:
> duplicate cache ndis_mdl
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] ------------[ cut
> here ]------------
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] kernel BUG at <bad
> filename>:28043!
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] invalid operand: 0000
> [#1]
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Modules linked in:
> ndiswrapper atmel_cs atmel firmware_class orinoco_cs orinoco hermes
> rfcomm l2cap bluetooth cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_userspace
> cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative freq_table pcmcia tc1100_wmi video
> battery container i2c_acpi_ec button pcc_acpi sony_acpi ac dev_acpi
> hotkey ipv6 af_packet floppy pcspkr rtc snd_via82xx_modem snd_seq_dummy
> snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_via82xx gameport
> snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer
> snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore
> i2c_viapro i2c_core via_ircc irda crc_ccitt yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic
> pcmcia_core shpchp pci_hotplug via_agp agpgart nls_iso8859_1 vfat fat
> nls_cp437 ntfs dm_mod tsdev evdev psmouse mousedev parport_pc lp parport
> md reiserfs thermal processor fan via_rhine mii uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd
> cdrom ide_disk ide_generic via82cxxx ide_core unix vesafb capability
> commoncap vga16fb vgastate softcursor cfbimgb
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: t cfbfillrect cfbcopyarea fbcon
> tileblit font bitblit
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] CPU:    0
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EIP:
> 0060:[kmem_cache_create+940/1038]    Tainted: P      VLI
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EFLAGS: 00010202
> (2.6.12-9-386) 
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EIP is at
> kmem_cache_create+0x3ac/0x40e
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] eax: c0271146   ebx:
> cebc81e0   ecx: c5587f40   edx: cfdcb24b
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] esi: cfdcb254   edi:
> cfdcb254   ebp: cebc82d0   esp: c5587f44
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] ds: 007b   es: 007b
> ss: 0068
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Process modprobe
> (pid: 11605, threadinfo=c5586000 task=c36eba60)
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Stack: 00000010
> c0000000 00000004 c5587f84 c5586000 c0000000 c5586000 cfdc23b6 
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]        cfdcb24b
> 00000024 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 cfb6105e 00000000 
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]        cfdccac9
> cfdccad8 cfdccada cfdccade 00000000 c0000000 c0129667 c036cde8 
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Call Trace:
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [pg0
> +262345654/1069995008] ntoskernel_init+0x46/0x70 [ndiswrapper]
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [pg0
> +259850334/1069995008] wrapper_init+0x5e/0xe4 [ndiswrapper]
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [sys_init_module
> +154/370] sys_init_module+0x9a/0x172
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [sys_init_module
> +181/370] sys_init_module+0xb5/0x172
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000]  [sysenter_past_esp
> +84/117] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
> Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Code: c0 75 f8 31 c0
> eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 85 c0 75 1e ff 74 24 20 68 46 11 27 c0 e8 71 12 fe ff
> 58 5a ff 05 ac 15 37 c0 0f 8e 1a 0f 00 00 <0f> 0b 8b 6d 00 eb 97 8b 4c
> 24 04 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 89 48 18 
> 
> 
> Sorry it's so long (and it wraps funny too) When the light on the belkin
> card just starts to faintly come on I start getting strange keyboard
> behaviour (keyboard can't keep up with my typing and endless repetitions
> of keystrokes that I'm not making anymore) so I'm thinking a conflict
> somewhere. I don't know enough about how to even find what conflict, let
> alone resolve it. Please point me to where I should go next.
> Thanks in advance
> brian
> 
> 
> 

I took the liberty of cleaning up the post as it had lots of repeated 
text. You could try bringing down the interface first with "ifdown 
wlan0". Then try something like "iwconfig wlan0 essid easynote".

-- 
Regards,
  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

    Tux is the Best
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