[shr-u] wifi connection

[William Kenworthy]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:00 -0500, Iain B. Findleton wrote:
> Arigead wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >     I was going to try and connect my FR to my laptop with an ad-hoc
> > wifi connection but being as I've never even connected to infrastructure
> > I decided that I'd start there. I followed the instructions in the wiki
> > [1] but got some strange results:
> >
> > ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0
> > ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
> > WPA: Configuring Interface
> > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> > udhcpc (v1.13.2) started
> > run-parts: /etc/udhcpc.d/00avahi-autoipd exited with code 1
> > Sending discover...
> > Sending discover...
> > Sending select for 192.168.1.137...
> > Sending select for 192.168.1.137...
> > Lease of 192.168.1.137 obtained, lease time 3600
> > run-parts: /etc/udhcpc.d/00avahi-autoipd exited with code 1
> > adding dns 192.168.1.254
> >
> >
> > root at om-gta02 /media/card $ ifconfig
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:CF:8F:37:23
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::212:cfff:fe8f:3723/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:353244 (344.9 KiB)  TX bytes:9635 (9.4 KiB)
> >
> >
> > It appears that I get offered an address by the DHCP server on the wifi
> > but that it's not being used by eth0 for some reason. Is this a know
> > issue. To be honest I've never tried to use the wifi part of the phone
> > before and the wiki might be outdated, even for infrastructure mode?
> >
> > Cheers for any help that anybody has time to offer.
> >
> >   
> I have similar problems getting wifi to work on SHR-U. In my case I get
> an address and configure the interface via dhcp, but can not establish
> any traffic to the interface. In one case I could ping a host but the
> transit time was enormous.
> 
> The other thing I note from ifconfig is ridiculous RX and TX values,
> almost 1TB on an interface I never have used. Looks to me like a bug
> somewhere in the driver code.
> > [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wifi
> >
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> >   
Check route -n, and are you trying wifi with usb plugged in? - depending
on the order you start/stop interfaces the default route could either be
wrong or missing.  And which version of shr-u - latest, or older.

BillK