Wireless Questions

[Richard Burdette]

> 
> >I have had trouble getting my Lucent wireless pcmcia cards to work in my
> >computer with Redhat or now Fedora.
> >
> I just did that.  IBM Thinkpad A31P,  Yarrow, and Orinoco Gold card.
> 
> I had some problems because I made it too complex.  Finally I just used
> redhat-config-network.  If I recall, the steps I went through were
> something like:
> 
> 1) Ensure modules were loaded
> 2) Insert card
> 3) Pull up redhat-config-tool
> 4) Verify card shows up in hardware.  If not, what does
> /var/log/messages tell you?
> 5) Set up new wireless device eth1
> 6) Save changes
> 7) /etc/init.d/network restart
> 8) iwconfig to verify connection
> 
> ~Jeff
> 
> 

Ok, well I've been able to get the light on the card to stay on; however, I
still am unable to get network up.  Here is what I did;

>From the network setup interface I removed all devices and all hardware and
rebooted.  When the system came back up the light on the card was on and in
the configuration gui there were no devices and the only hardware seen was
orinoco_cs.  I proceed to define a new device using the found hardware but
when I try to activate it fails with a message stating "Cannot get driver
information: Operation not supported". 

I saved the configuration and checked the output from iwconfig and it has
the correct ESSID set from the gui and furthermore has the correct MAC from
my AP so I have properly associated, but when I check ifconfig I don't have
an Ethernet device. Something simple is missing...

Richard