can't activate wireless

[Chris Ruprecht]

Jim,

you can ignore that error.

if it can not determine the correct IP address (DHCP) then you could
have one of these issues:

1. The AP (Access Point) you are connecting to has MAC address filtering
switched on and your card's MAC address is not listed in the AP's table.
2. The Wireless Network is using encryption and your machine isn't set
up with the same password.
3. The Wireless Network is not using encryption but you have it set up
on your machine.
4. The Wireless Network is using another type of authentication method
that you don't have.
5. There is no DHCP server defined to be used on your network.
6. If this is not your own Wireless Network, talk to the administrator
of that network.

If this is your home network, please set up the AP properly and then set
up the client machine (your laptop, I presume) accordingly.
Also make sure that you are actually talking to the AP you want to talk
to and not to some neighbor's AP - who has his own encryption and MAC
filtering set up (hopefully).

And when you have everything working, set up the AP to be a closed
network, so you don't broadcast "Hello, here I am, please come and try
to hack into me" all over the place. 

Best regards,
Chris


On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:47 -0500, Jim wrote:
> when i try to activate my wireless card i get this
> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>     SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
> 
> Determining IP information for eth1...
> 
> Specs  
> intel 2200bg wireless
> 
> -- 
> James Lawrence
> Rochester NY

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