[arachne] Re: arachne and wifi

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:08:12, Christof Lange wrote:

> 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


Try this.....

--- in arachne.cfg ---

[tcp/ip]
IP_Address WATTCP <--- Arachne uses only the values in TCPconfig file
NameServer        <--- leave blank
AltNameServer     <--- leave blank
Gateway 0.0.0.0
AltGateway 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
TCPconfig WIFI.CFG

--- in wifi.cfg ---
my_ip=bootp    <--- if BOOTP does not work....
#my_ip=dhcp    <--- try switching to DHCP
_____________________________


With those settings... everything _should_ be grabbed via BOOTP or DHCP


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