wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

[Jayton Garnett]

Thanks Daniel  :-)

I took the leap of faith and pulled out the rl0, removed rl0 from my 
configs and all is well.
Now to  get my server a WiFi card (I will look for a supported card this 
time)

The reason I got the OvisLink WL8000 was because I had seen support for 
OvisLink cards a few days before in the hardware notes,
but when I purchased my card I had forgotten that it was normal ethernet 
cards.

A big thanks to the people that developed ndis, I look forward to doing 
this all again with ndisgen when 6.0 is released.

Jayton

Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>On Sunday 18 September 2005 20:21, Jayton Garnett wrote:
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>>Sep 18 10:50:04 desktop kernel: arp:00:4f:62:01:2c:4e is using my IP
>>address 192.168.0.4
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>>Sep 18 10:50:04 desktop kernel: arp:00:02:44:70:12:5e is using my IP
>>address 192.168.0.3
>>    
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>
>Well that's not good :)
>
>Caused by having two network cards in the same machine on the same segment.
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>>Local package initialization: ndis0: not found
>>ndis0: not found    #repeated 6 times
>>...
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>Hmm probably because you don't have ndis loaded at bootup?
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>>Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
>>default            192.168.0.1        UGS         0      451    rl0
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>See? Going via rl0.
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>>>I suggest you ifconfig rl0 delete otherwise the routing table may indicate
>>>that packets should go via rl0 which is down, hence the error message.
>>>      
>>>
>>I have just figured out that if I
>>ifconfig rl0 delete
>> , then
>>route add default 192.168.0.1
>>I can use my wifi card ordinarily, I must be missing something in my
>>config somewhere.
>>
>>This is the networking section of my /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>>network_interfaces=ndis0 rl0              #Just reversed this order now,
>>it was network_interfaces=rl0 ndis0
>>ifconfig_ndis0="inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid linksys
>>channel 11"
>>defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
>>hostname="desktop.jayton.plus.com"
>>ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.0.3  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
>>hostname="desktop.jayton.plus.com"
>>    
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>
>You can't have 2 network cards on the same segment. Your wireless AP is 
>bridging the wireless network and your wired network so rl0 and ndis0 are on 
>the same segment. Pick one or the other.
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