Installation

My wireless Compaq WL110 PCMCIA card -- status: no carrier.

I have a Soekris net4511 (m0n0wall version 1.236) with Compaq Wireless WL110 PCMCIA card for wireless. The PCMCIA card is on the m0n0wall approved list.  As instructed by SteveEast I assigned it to an interface (wi0 > Opt1).  I tested the PCMCIA card in my laptop and it works.  

I even resorted to reading the Handbook, but have been unable to figure out what I am not doing.  While I have created a PASS Firewall rule for Opt1 I am not sure if it is configured correctly.

I guess my humility is being tested.

Any help will be appreciated.

I enclose the boot log below.  The Interface status as provided in "status.php" reports the following:

sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
   options=40<POLLING>
   inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
   ether 00:00:24:c0:61:0c
   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
   status: active
sis1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
   options=40<POLLING>
   ether 00:00:24:c0:61:0d
   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
   status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
   inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
wi0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
   ether 00:02:a5:2e:42:07
   media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
   status: no carrier
   ssid P2I 1:P2I
   stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
   channel 10 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
   wepmode OFF weptxkey 1


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comBIOS ver. 1.33  20080103  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.

net45xx

0032 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Elan SC520 100 Mhz

Pri Mas  CF 1GB                          LBA Xlt 983-32-63  990 Mbyte

Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:09:0 104C AC50 06070002 0107 0210 10 3F 02 A0000000 020000A0 10
0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0001000 11
0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0002000 05

 1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 639kB/31744kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(root@fb411.neon1.net, Sun May  8 12:15:29 CEST 2005)
/kernel text=0x17b6a0 data=0x1e484+0x19e60 syms=[0x4+0x288c0+0x4+0x301f0]
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p26 #0: Fri Aug  8 20:44:32 CEST 2008
    root@fb411.neon1.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/M0N0WALL_NET45XX
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1189165 Hz
CPU: AMD Enhanced Am486DX4/Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x494  Stepping = 4
  Features=0x1<FPU>
real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 17235968 (16832K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0f0f000.
Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc0f0f0a8.
md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 12582912 bytes at 0xc030d43c
md1: Malloc disk
Timecounter "ELAN"  frequency 8333333 Hz
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <AMD Elan SC520 host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcic0: <TI PCI-1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000fff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][pci only]
pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
sis0: <NatSemi DP83815 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe100-0xe1ff mem 0xa0001000-0xa0001fff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:00:24:c0:61:0c
miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
sis1: <NatSemi DP83815 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe200-0xe2ff mem 0xa0002000-0xa0002fff irq 5 at device 19.0 on pci0
sis1: Ethernet address: 00:00:24:c0:61:0d
miibus1: <MII bus> on sis1
ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc8000-0xd0fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x30 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A, console
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
Elan-mmcr driver: MMCR at 0xc3b2d000
BRIDGE 020214 loaded
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized.  Default = block all, Logging = enabled
pccard: card inserted, slot 0
pccard: card removed, slot 0
ad0: 967MB <CF 1GB> [1966/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
pccard: card inserted, slot 0
kern.coredump: 1 -> 0
Found configuration on ad0.
Initializing timezone... done
Initializing PC cards... wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:a5:2e:42:07
wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station 6.16.01
done
Configuring firewall... done
Configuring LAN interface... done
Configuring WAN interface... done
Configuring OPT1 (OPT1) interface... done
sis1: promiscuous mode enabled
wi0: promiscuous mode enabled
Starting syslog service... done
Starting webGUI... done
Starting DNS forwarder... done
Starting NTP client... done


*** This is m0n0wall, version 1.236
    built on Wed Sep 30 22:38:25 CEST 2009 for net45xx
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    LAN IP address: 192.168.1.2

    Port configuration:

    LAN   -> sis0
    WAN   -> sis1
    OPT1  -> wi0 (OPT1)
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Thank you.

Having assigned the wireless card to an interface, have you then clicked on OPT1 in the list under "Interfaces" and configured it?

Steve.

Yes.  

Description: Opt1
Bridge with: LAN
Mode: Hostap
SSID: P2I
Channel: AUTO
WEP:  not enabled

By the way, I was messing with configuration and was able to change "no carrier" to associated.  However, this change did not seem to result in a wireless signal.

Mike

After much searching and help, it seems the problem resides with the wireless card and my lack of understanding.  The Soekris net4511 unit (16meg ram and m0n0wall version 1.2) was purchased used and included a Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card.    At first I could not achieve wireless connectivity through the Cisco Soekris combination and decided to replace the Cisco card with a Compaq WL110 PCMCIA card  that supported "hostap".  Even though the card worked in my laptop it would not work as the Soekris wireless card (in spite of being on the m0n0wall okay list).  After an exchange of emails with SoCalFreeNet's Michael Mee, I learned that the Aironet card should work.  According to Mr. Mee, SoCalFreeNet had great success with Cisco 350 APs and that they were super reliable and work with everything.  So, I reinstalled the Cisco Aironet 350 card configured as IBSS together with all the other configuration requirements set forth in the m0n0wall manual and now everything works.  So problem solved.