[lwlan-user] ifconfig doesn't show RUNNING

[Marcos Hacker]

Just a follow up to my original problem. This may be more appropriate for 
the developer list.

The driver I ported from the 2.4 kernel to the 2.6 kernel was missing calls 
to netif_carrier_on(). I added the call along side setting the macmode to 
WLAN_MACMODE_IBSS_STA.

        netif_carrier_on(wlandev->netdev); // Sets IFF_RUNNING (visible in 
ifconfig)

        wlandev->macmode = WLAN_MACMODE_IBSS_STA;


Thanks for the replys!
marcos

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Gee, David" <david at allpowerfuldave.com>
To: Marcos Hacker <mfhacker at hotmail.com>
CC: linux-wlan-user at lists.linux-wlan.com
Subject: Re: [lwlan-user] ifconfig doesn't show RUNNING
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:14:04 +0100

Ah yes, I would imagine that does mean something. I've just been playing
around with my ethernet card, which isn't plugged in, and I did and ifup
eth0 and noticed that I got

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:76:3A:A1:78
           inet addr:10.255.253.1  Bcast:10.255.253.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST 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:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
           Interrupt:169 Base address:0xe00

which is very similar to what you got. Given that mine wasn't connected
to anything, maybe your problem is just that it's not associating to the
other PC's wireless card correctly?

Regards
David

Marcos Hacker wrote:
 > Both. I can't ping the card locally or from another machine. I am
 > trying to establish an ad-hoc connection to another pc. The other pc
 > is running 2.4.22_FC1. I thought the absence of RUNNING from the
 > ifconfig listing might have indicated a problem.
 >
 > thanks for the input,
 > marcos
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > ----Original Message Follows----
 > From: "Gee, David" <david at allpowerfuldave.com>
 > To: Marcos Hacker <mfhacker at hotmail.com>
 > CC: linux-wlan-user at lists.linux-wlan.com
 > Subject: Re: [lwlan-user] ifconfig doesn't show RUNNING
 > Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:44:14 +0100
 >
 > When you say you cannot ping the card, do you mean you cannot ping it
 > from a remote machine or you cannot ping the card from the machine
 > itself? If its the former, it's more likely a firewall issue as from the
 > output of ifconfig it all looks good.
 >
 > Regards
 > David
 >
 > Marcos Hacker wrote:
 > > Hi. I am trying to get a prism2 PCMCIA card running under Fedora
 > 2.6.14_FC4
 > > with the 0.2.3 driver. The driver installs, recognizes the card,
 > etc. When I
 > > try ifconfig, the information returned does not show RUNNING.
 > >
 > > wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:68:00:00:9B
 > >           inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255
 > Mask:255.255.255.0
 > >           inet6 addr: fe80::202:68ff:fe00:9b/64 Scope:Link
 > >           UP BROADCAST 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:1000
 > >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
 > >           Interrupt:3 Base address:0x2100
 > >
 > > I'm not sure if it's related, but I can not ping the card. It
 > doesn't appear
 > > to be receiving packets.  Any ideas or suggestions are greatly
 > appreciated.
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > > marcos
 > >
 > >
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