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WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
i configured the wlan with 3 qnx6.3.2 machines, the problem was that the machine could not ping thru one another, i 
think the driver add on should be okay, here is my script:
io-net -d orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip
ifconfig en0 192.168.1.1

and the nicinfo output:
ORiNOCO 802.11 Wireless Ethernet Controller

Physical Node ID ........................... 00022D 01B57F
Current Physical Node ID ................... 00022D 01B57F
Current Operation Rate ..................... 11.00 Mb/s half-duplex
Active Interface Type ...................... Unknown
Maximum Transmittable data Unit ............ 1514
Maximum Receivable data Unit ............... 1514
Hardware Interrupt ......................... 0x3
I/O Aperture ............................... 0x300 - 0x33f
Promiscuous Mode ........................... Off
Multicast Support .......................... Enabled

Station Name ...............................
Network Name (SSID) ........................
Channel: ................................... 4294967295
BSS Type ................................... Unknown

Packets Transmitted OK ..................... 5
Bytes Transmitted OK ....................... 210

Packets Received OK ........................ 3
Bytes Received OK .......................... 0

Hope anybody could figure out this problem, thx.

Eric
RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
You should maybe add a "sleep 3" or a "waitfor /dev/io-net/en0" in your
script before performing the ifconfig. It also appears that the nicinfo
you have in incompatible with the network driver, as the SSID and
channel are not being displayed correctly. Also, IRQ 3 is normally used
for serial ports, so this could also be a problem. If you are using
devp-pccard, try starting it with a different IRQ with the '-i' command
line option.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:38 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

i configured the wlan with 3 qnx6.3.2 machines, the problem was that the
machine could not ping thru one another, i think the driver add on
should be okay, here is my script:
io-net -d orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip
ifconfig en0 192.168.1.1

and the nicinfo output:
ORiNOCO 802.11 Wireless Ethernet Controller

Physical Node ID ........................... 00022D 01B57F
Current Physical Node ID ................... 00022D 01B57F
Current Operation Rate ..................... 11.00 Mb/s half-duplex
Active Interface Type ...................... Unknown
Maximum Transmittable data Unit ............ 1514
Maximum Receivable data Unit ............... 1514
Hardware Interrupt ......................... 0x3
I/O Aperture ............................... 0x300 - 0x33f
Promiscuous Mode ........................... Off
Multicast Support .......................... Enabled

Station Name ...............................
Network Name (SSID) ........................
Channel: ................................... 4294967295
BSS Type ................................... Unknown

Packets Transmitted OK ..................... 5
Bytes Transmitted OK ....................... 210

Packets Received OK ........................ 3
Bytes Received OK .......................... 0

Hope anybody could figure out this problem, thx.

Eric

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Re: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
> You should maybe add a "sleep 3" or a "waitfor /dev/io-net/en0" in your
> script before performing the ifconfig.
thx, actually i typed the above commands in the terminal after its boot up, so no need to wait 
> It also appears that the nicinfo
> you have in incompatible with the network driver, as the SSID and
> channel are not being displayed correctly. 
yes, i am also confused about this, but the orinoco 802.11b pc card only goes with this driver, and in ap mode, it also 
displayed like this, but could work very fine.
> Also, IRQ 3 is normally used
> for serial ports, so this could also be a problem. If you are using
> devp-pccard, try starting it with a different IRQ with the '-i' command
> line option.
the "pin" output gave me the IRQ for this network pc card, so 3 should be okay? thx
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:38 AM
> To: drivers-networking
> Subject: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card
> 
> i configured the wlan with 3 qnx6.3.2 machines, the problem was that the
> machine could not ping thru one another, i think the driver add on
> should be okay, here is my script:
> io-net -d orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip
> ifconfig en0 192.168.1.1
> 
> and the nicinfo output:
> ORiNOCO 802.11 Wireless Ethernet Controller
> 
> Physical Node ID ........................... 00022D 01B57F
> Current Physical Node ID ................... 00022D 01B57F
> Current Operation Rate ..................... 11.00 Mb/s half-duplex
> Active Interface Type ...................... Unknown
> Maximum Transmittable data Unit ............ 1514
> Maximum Receivable data Unit ............... 1514
> Hardware Interrupt ......................... 0x3
> I/O Aperture ............................... 0x300 - 0x33f
> Promiscuous Mode ........................... Off
> Multicast Support .......................... Enabled
> 
> Station Name ...............................
> Network Name (SSID) ........................
> Channel: ................................... 4294967295
> BSS Type ................................... Unknown
> 
> Packets Transmitted OK ..................... 5
> Bytes Transmitted OK ....................... 210
> 
> Packets Received OK ........................ 3
> Bytes Received OK .......................... 0
> 
> Hope anybody could figure out this problem, thx.
> 
> Eric
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Networking Drivers
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9546


RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
Are you saying that the wireless card worked OK in ap mode with IRQ 3?
If so, then IRQ 3 should be fine. Are you starting all adhoc machines
with the same SSID and channel?


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:11 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

> You should maybe add a "sleep 3" or a "waitfor /dev/io-net/en0" in
your
> script before performing the ifconfig.
thx, actually i typed the above commands in the terminal after its boot
up, so no need to wait 
> It also appears that the nicinfo
> you have in incompatible with the network driver, as the SSID and
> channel are not being displayed correctly. 
yes, i am also confused about this, but the orinoco 802.11b pc card only
goes with this driver, and in ap mode, it also displayed like this, but
could work very fine.
> Also, IRQ 3 is normally used
> for serial ports, so this could also be a problem. If you are using
> devp-pccard, try starting it with a different IRQ with the '-i'
command
> line option.
the "pin" output gave me the IRQ for this network pc card, so 3 should
be okay? thx
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:38 AM
> To: drivers-networking
> Subject: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card
> 
> i configured the wlan with 3 qnx6.3.2 machines, the problem was that
the
> machine could not ping thru one another, i think the driver add on
> should be okay, here is my script:
> io-net -d orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip
> ifconfig en0 192.168.1.1
> 
> and the nicinfo output:
> ORiNOCO 802.11 Wireless Ethernet Controller
> 
> Physical Node ID ........................... 00022D 01B57F
> Current Physical Node ID ................... 00022D 01B57F
> Current Operation Rate ..................... 11.00 Mb/s half-duplex
> Active Interface Type ...................... Unknown
> Maximum Transmittable data Unit ............ 1514
> Maximum Receivable data Unit ............... 1514
> Hardware Interrupt ......................... 0x3
> I/O Aperture ............................... 0x300 - 0x33f
> Promiscuous Mode ........................... Off
> Multicast Support .......................... Enabled
> 
> Station Name ...............................
> Network Name (SSID) ........................
> Channel: ................................... 4294967295
> BSS Type ................................... Unknown
> 
> Packets Transmitted OK ..................... 5
> Bytes Transmitted OK ....................... 210
> 
> Packets Received OK ........................ 3
> Bytes Received OK .......................... 0
> 
> Hope anybody could figure out this problem, thx.
> 
> Eric
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Networking Drivers
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9546




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http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9590
Re: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
yes, AP mode works fine, and previously i was able to make the adhoc work, but i just have no ideas why it could not 
work now.

i started all the orinoco cards on the 3 machines with "io-net -d orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip"
. so they should have the same ssid and channel. anything else i can check? thx
RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
I have setup 2 laptops here with an Orinoco wireless card in one and a
Prism in the other, and set them both up in adhoc mode without any
problems. The Orinoco is also on I/O port 0x300 and IRQ 3 and is working
fine.

One thing that you can try is to slay devp-pccard and start it as
"devp-pccard ss -m", then restart io-net and see if that works.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:08 PM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

yes, AP mode works fine, and previously i was able to make the adhoc
work, but i just have no ideas why it could not work now.

i started all the orinoco cards on the 3 machines with "io-net -d
orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip". so they should
have the same ssid and channel. anything else i can check? thx

_______________________________________________
Networking Drivers
http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9640
Re: RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
thx. when i used "devp-pccard ss -m", the pin output gave me the irq 11 instead of the previous 3, and then i tried to 
add the driver and ping the other machine, when i checked the nicinfo, it showed that it didnot transmit any packets. 
but in the previous case with irq=3, the number of transmitted packets would increase when it tried to ping the other 
machine. so i think "devp-pccard ss -m" didnot work for me.

another problem i detected today: after several ping pkts sent out, from the nicinfo output, the number of transmitted 
packets increased which should be right, however on the other qnx machine, in nicinfo, the number of received packets 
did not increase correspondingly, so any other configurations or check can i make here?

And could you please paste the "nicinfo" output, "pin" of your orinoco machine? thx

Eric

> I have setup 2 laptops here with an Orinoco wireless card in one and a
> Prism in the other, and set them both up in adhoc mode without any
> problems. The Orinoco is also on I/O port 0x300 and IRQ 3 and is working
> fine.
> 
> One thing that you can try is to slay devp-pccard and start it as
> "devp-pccard ss -m", then restart io-net and see if that works.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:08 PM
> To: drivers-networking
> Subject: Re: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card
> 
> yes, AP mode works fine, and previously i was able to make the adhoc
> work, but i just have no ideas why it could not work now.
> 
> i started all the orinoco cards on the 3 machines with "io-net -d
> orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip". so they should
> have the same ssid and channel. anything else i can check? thx
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Networking Drivers
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9640


RE: RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
I have attached the output of nicinfo and pin to this e-mail.

Have you tried different channels for the adhoc problem?


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:16 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

thx. when i used "devp-pccard ss -m", the pin output gave me the irq 11
instead of the previous 3, and then i tried to add the driver and ping
the other machine, when i checked the nicinfo, it showed that it didnot
transmit any packets. but in the previous case with irq=3, the number of
transmitted packets would increase when it tried to ping the other
machine. so i think "devp-pccard ss -m" didnot work for me.

another problem i detected today: after several ping pkts sent out, from
the nicinfo output, the number of transmitted packets increased which
should be right, however on the other qnx machine, in nicinfo, the
number of received packets did not increase correspondingly, so any
other configurations or check can i make here?

And could you please paste the "nicinfo" output, "pin" of your orinoco
machine? thx

Eric

> I have setup 2 laptops here with an Orinoco wireless card in one and a
> Prism in the other, and set them both up in adhoc mode without any
> problems. The Orinoco is also on I/O port 0x300 and IRQ 3 and is
working
> fine.
> 
> One thing that you can try is to slay devp-pccard and start it as
> "devp-pccard ss -m", then restart io-net and see if that works.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:08 PM
> To: drivers-networking
> Subject: Re: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card
> 
> yes, AP mode works fine, and previously i was able to make the adhoc
> work, but i just have no ideas why it could not work now.
> 
> i started all the orinoco cards on the 3 machines with "io-net -d
> orinoco channel=11,network=mywork,mode=adhoc -p tcpip". so they should
> have the same ssid and channel. anything else i can check? thx
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Networking Drivers
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9640




_______________________________________________
Networking Drivers
http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9694

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Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
thx, Hugh.

today i mounted the orinoco card in my xp lattop, second orinoco card on another laptop with qnx 6.3.2, and third 
orinoco card on the pc104 computer stack with qnx 6.3.2 image. the situation was like this:

winxp and qnx laptop could ping thru each other in the adhoc mode, while the pc104 sent out ping packets to winxp, the 
packet sniffer on winxp could only see the packets pc104 sent to it, and meanwhile winxp should have replied back, but 
the pc 104 had no response. in fact, nicinfo on pc104 told me that the number of received packets didnot increase 
accordingly. so what may be the reasons here? thx

Eric
RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
It sounds as though you might have an interrupt problem on the PC104.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 5:54 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

thx, Hugh.

today i mounted the orinoco card in my xp lattop, second orinoco card on
another laptop with qnx 6.3.2, and third orinoco card on the pc104
computer stack with qnx 6.3.2 image. the situation was like this:

winxp and qnx laptop could ping thru each other in the adhoc mode, while
the pc104 sent out ping packets to winxp, the packet sniffer on winxp
could only see the packets pc104 sent to it, and meanwhile winxp should
have replied back, but the pc 104 had no response. in fact, nicinfo on
pc104 told me that the number of received packets didnot increase
accordingly. so what may be the reasons here? thx

Eric

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Networking Drivers
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Re: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
what kind of interrupt problem?  thx
RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
Maybe the interrupt is not working. Have you tried another interrupt?


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:01 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

what kind of interrupt problem?  thx

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Re: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
> Maybe the interrupt is not working. Have you tried another interrupt?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:01 AM
> To: drivers-networking
> Subject: Re: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card
> 
> what kind of interrupt problem?  thx
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Networking Drivers
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9771


yepp, adhoc finally worked after i tried "devp-pccard ss -m", and changed the irq number, huh? thx so much. how can the 
problem of irq come out?

Eric
RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
The "ss -m" option to devp-pccard routes ISA interrupts to PCI, which
changes the interrupt line. Obviously the previous interrupt wasn't
working.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:46 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

> Maybe the interrupt is not working. Have you tried another interrupt?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:01 AM
> To: drivers-networking
> Subject: Re: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card
> 
> what kind of interrupt problem?  thx
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Networking Drivers
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post9771


yepp, adhoc finally worked after i tried "devp-pccard ss -m", and
changed the irq number, huh? thx so much. how can the problem of irq
come out?

Eric

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Networking Drivers
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Re: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
sorry, pops up another problem.
after the two network cards started, the orinoco wifi card could only work for quite a short while, then i could not 
ping thru it from my host. 

then i "slay io-net" and started only the orinoco wifi card, then the wifi worked very well. what might be the reasons 
here? thx

Eric
RE: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card  
Do you slay dhcp.client before running your network script?


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dong [mailto:eric.dongxx@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:55 AM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: RE: WLAN among qnx with Orinoco 802.11b pc card

sorry, pops up another problem.
after the two network cards started, the orinoco wifi card could only
work for quite a short while, then i could not ping thru it from my
host. 

then i "slay io-net" and started only the orinoco wifi card, then the
wifi worked very well. what might be the reasons here? thx

Eric

_______________________________________________
Networking Drivers
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