Setup of Wireless Network with Aironet 352 Card

Wed Mar 27 17:25:33 EST 2002

Hi Toby,

Thanks for your reply...

U was absolutely correct ...
I 'll not ask more about routing etc... My questions are bit difff..

New Question:-
------------------
I 've a link setup with Cisco aironet 352 cards ... It's working fine.
I want to setup a nework of such wireless boxes .
There would be a Central Box with a omini directional antena and multiple
boxes with directional antenas pointing towards the central box ....
Again the Central Box will be connected to Backborn (Internet) and nodes
don't need to communicated with each other.
What kind of settings will be required on the central Box ?
In which mode it will run now ... 'adhoc'/ 'infrastructure'/'accesspoint' ?
How would I authorize the remote box to get into my network and talk via my
central box?

Ok ...

Now, when we talk about network ..... there should be a topology .... (what
is the simplest topology used in radio communication ?)
There would be collision if everybody talks simultaneously ..... (is there
any CSMA/CD kind of contention protocol exists for radio communication?)
I can set a channel (frequency), speed and a SSID on a aironet box .... now,
if I want diff. remote boxes talking to central box .... can I use diff.
channel (frequency), SSID for each of them .... to differentiate ... If yes
... How to tell central box to use all those channels and speed
simultaneously for respective node? .... At present I can set the box for
single channel, data transfer rate and single SSID

Nir.

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> From: "nirav" <nirav at d2visp.com>
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> Subject: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:24:16 +0530
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> Hi ...
> I 've just registered in this mailing list.....
>
> NEED HELP !!!
>
> My Setup:-
> ----------
> I've three Linux boxes each having following configuration (It's setup to
> test)
>
> Intel (Celeron) based PC with Intel 810 Motherboard and 3 PCI slots.
> Cisco Aironet 352 (100mv) card with PCI interface.
> rtl8139 compatible one Ethernet adapters with PCI interface.
> CD-Drive, Floppy Drive ....
> RedHat 7.1 Kernel 2.4.2-2 on i686
> All the development/ kernel development and utilities and compilers are
> installed
> AIROLINUXv15000.tar.gz (Driver and utilities, PC340/350 for Linux )
> pcmcia-cs-3.1.26.tar.gz (Drivers for PCMCIA)
> kernel-wlan-ng-0.1.10-0rh71_k242.i386.rpm (which I believe is latest)
>
> I've setup a Point to Point setup using the default Cisco drivers and
> utility like 'acu'
> It works fine and I'm able to communicate.
>
> Now the Questions:-
> ----------------------------
>
> I want to setup a network of such wireless boxes .
> There would be a Central Box with a omni directional antenna and multiple
> boxes with directional antennas pointing towards the central box ....
> What kind of settings will be required on the central Box ?
> What I need to setup such network?
> How to make a box 'access point' ?
> In which mode it will run now ... 'adhoc'/ 'infrastructure'/'accesspoint'
?
> How the routing will be done ...?
> How would I authorize the remote box to get into my network and talk via
my
> central box?
>
>
> Ok .... That's it .... I thank all of u in advance who will reply and who
> won't ... :-)
>
> Nir.
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:24:18 +1030 (CST)
> From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin at sa.pracom.com.au>
> To: ThE MaDj0kEr <mad at j0ker.net>
> Cc: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: Problem with monitor mode using Compaq WL110
>
> Trick is to use a different ioctl.
>
> I don't have my laptop here today so can't tell you exactly, but yeah, the
> main ioctl call in orinocoSniff.c needs to be changed. I talked to the
> author of the patch about it, so he might have updated the patch sometime.
>
> -Toby
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, ThE MaDj0kEr wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've got a Compaq WL110 PCMCIA card. Netstumbler reports firmware
version as
> > 4.0x, and drivers version as 7.5x (I don't remember those numbers right
> > now).
> >
> > WL110 is just an Orinoco Gold card, and my problem is I can't make the
card
> > works in monitor mode under linux, using orinoco_cs 0.09b and patch from
> > http://airsnort.shmoo.com/OrinocoPatch.html (nor using orinoco_cs 0.10).
I'm
> > also using latest linux-wlan-ng package. With all of this, the card
works
> > fine, but monitor mode doesn't work.
> >
> > Also, firmware utilities from http://www.orinocowireless.com doesn't
work
> > for my card, so I can't try upgrading firmware.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > The MaDj0kEr [KpK]
> >
> >
>
> --
>  Toby Corkindale
>  UNIX Developer, Core Tech R&D
>  Technology SA, Pracom Ltd
>  288 Glen Osmond Road
>  Fullarton, 5063
>  South Australia
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> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:34:21 +1030 (CST)
> From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin at sa.pracom.com.au>
> To: <wireless at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: ***Setup of Wireless Network with Aironet 352 Card***
>
> Although some things can be answered by people here, I'm sure a lot of
your
> questions in regards to routing,etc. will be answered by a good read of
the
> linux network administrators guide. At least have a go at reading info on
> the web about general networking theory such as broadcasting, routing,
> tunneling, bridging, ipsec, etc.. Once you know what you need to do, it
> should be easy to ask questions about how to apply the specifics to
wireless
> networking, although you may find you've already answered these by then.
>
> Seeya :)
>
> Toby
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, nirav wrote:
>
> > Hi ...
> > I 've just registered in this mailing list.....
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> > NEED HELP !!!
> >
>
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