[arachne] Re: arachne and wifi

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Hi list, 

after having successfully running Arachne with a dsl connection 
during my holidays, I tried to connect her to my local wifi 
connection I have at home. May be some of you will be able to 
make some comments. 

Hardware: avaya wifi card for PCMCIA on a notebook
Connection: LAN of a neighbour, giving access to the internet

After many hours of surfing on the web I found: 

a) some IBM/MS (?) drivers for card services, which could identify
my wifi card, but caused problems when I installed the driver


b) a pair of drivers wvlancad.sys and wvlan42.com which seem to be
packet drivers for the rather highly compatible Orinoco wifi cards. 

The following refers to b). 


1. Loading the drivers
======================

Seems to work: 

------- config.sys -------------
stackshigh=9,256
device=c:\avaya\wvlancad.sys /i=10 /b=300 /m=d000
--------------------------------

returns:

    Agere Card Access Driver version 01.26
    Memory: d000, I/O Base: 300, IRQ: 10
    Card Access Driver Installed

------- autoexe.bat ------------
c:\avaya\wvlan42 L
--------------------------------
with 
------- packet.ini -------------
; Configuration parameters file for the ORiNOCO IEEE 802.11 Packet 
;Driver.
; The name of this driver is: WVLAN42.COM.
;
; Date: $Date: 2001/11/07 10:22:18 $        $Revision: 1.2 $
;
Wireless_Network_Name = ANY
---------------------------------

returns: 

    Wireless Packet Driver, Variant 1,  v6.12 (020409)
    Novell flag NOT set
    IOBase = 0300  IRQ = 0A  MAC Address = 00022D4BA620  Packet 
      Interrupt = 0x60


2. Connect
==========

I tried

------- wattcp.cfg --------------
nameserver=10.0.0.138    <---- name server of LAN
my_ip=bootp
netmask=255.255.255.0 
----------------------------------

and

------- wattcp.cfg --------------
nameserver=10.0.0.138
my_ip=10.0.0.2  <---- IP adress I used to receive from 
                            DHCP server
gateway=10.0.0.138 <--- I am not sure about this
netmask=255.255.255.0 
----------------------------------

with several WATTCP applications - no success. 


3. Arachne
==========

Besides setting up the WATTCP.CFG file I tried 

---------- ARACHNE.CFG -------------------
[profile]
Profile DSL.ACF
Connection READY
Hangup NULL

[tcp/ip]
IP_Address BOOTP
NameServer 10.0.0.138
Netmask 255.255.255.0
TCPconfig WATTCP.CFG
-------------------------------------------

but could not get a connection. 


Any ideas? 

Christof Lange

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