Subject: Re: SPARCbook and PCMCIA
To: Mike Parson <mparson@bl.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/02/2005 13:19:05
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Hello,

> wi0: flags=3D8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> 1500
> 	ssid myssid
> 	powersave off
> 	address: 00:20:a5:00:00:08
> 	media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS2)
> 	status: no network
> 	inet 192.168.15.45 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255

Looks good.
When it hooks up with an AP it should add something like this::
        bssid 00:0c:41:51:2b:f6 chan 1


> I've never played with wireless under *nix before, so the above is as
> close as I've gotten.  The "status: no network" tells me I'm still
> missing something. (the ssid *is* set to my net's ssid in the real
> output).

Hmm, do you use WEP? If you do you need to tell wi which key to use.
This may not work though - some people reported problems with WEP. ( I
don't use it - my AP filters solely by MAC address ) This would be
ifconfig wi0 nwkey "xxxxx"

> I don't seem to have the /dev/rwd0 stuff, so I can't read the
> disklabel!
> (oops) Got the major/minors for that?

mknod -l should tell you:
wd character major 26 block major 12

on -current you can just use
MAKEDEV wd0

> > No news on X though - I didn't get the graphics chip to switch to 16
> > or 32bit colour yet, the SPARCbook 3 Technical Manual is incomplete
> > and at times misleading.
>=20
> You'll figure it out, I've got faith. =3D)

We'll see ;)

have fun
Michael

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