Wireless Questions

[Mike Watson]

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On Thursday 08 January 2004 02:44 pm, Richard Burdette wrote:
> > >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

Check your signal strength in /proc/net/wireless.  Is your AP encrypted? 
If do you have the correct key entered?

mw
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