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<DIV>Hello,</DIV>
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<DIV>I have Voyage 0.6.1 running running successfully on a VIA mini-ITX board
which I ssh into remotely via ethernet. I have added a EDIMAX PCI wireless card
(Ralink chip set) as I wish to ssh into the box via a wireless connection. I
copied the firmwear driver (rt2561s.rts) into /lib/firmware/ and altered the
/etc/network/interfaces file to read:</DIV>
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<DIV>auto lo</DIV>
<DIV>iface lo inet loopback</DIV>
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<DIV>auto eth0</DIV>
<DIV>iface eth0 inet dhcp</DIV>
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<DIV>auto wlan0</DIV>
<DIV>iface wlan0 inet static</DIV>
<DIV>address 10.1.10.1</DIV>
<DIV>netmask 255.255.255.0</DIV>
<DIV>broadcast 10.1.10.255</DIV>
<DIV>up iwconfig wlan0 essid BigAl mode Master</DIV>
<DIV>up nat.sh wlan0 eth0 "10.1.10.0/24"</DIV>
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<DIV>Initially when the system boots syslog reports - Apr 13 09:38:51 voyage
vmunix: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready. Although iwlist
wlan0 scan works that is about as far as the wireless system seems to operate.
The ifwconfig command produces:</DIV>
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<DIV>wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"BigAl" </DIV>
<DIV>Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated </DIV>
<DIV>Tx-Power=3 dBm </DIV>
<DIV>Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B </DIV>
<DIV>Encryption key:off</DIV>
<DIV>Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0</DIV>
<DIV>Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0</DIV>
<DIV>Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0</DIV>
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<DIV>I noticed from a previous report concerning a Ralink USB stick that
there may be a problem with the kernel and Ralink drivers. If anyone could shed
some light on this problem I would be grateful, also being new to the world of
wireless networking I'm not too sure whether I have done things
correctly or whether I'm missing a configuration file.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks in anticipation,</DIV>
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<DIV>Alan </DIV>
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