[ltp] Wireless Networking

[Cameron Hooper]

On 12 Dec 2001, Rob Mayoff wrote:

> +---------- On Dec 12, Cameron Hooper said:
> > Does anyone know of a good tutorial aimed at the totally clueless (and I
> > mean *totally* clueless) pcmcia/wireless newbie? Something that could lead
> > me step by step through this process.
>
> No, but you should probably just need to add a stanza like this right
> after the "case" line in wireless.opt:
>
> *)
>     ESSID=yourssid         # Use your SSID in place of "yourssid"
>     MODE=Managed           # or Ad-Hoc if you don't have an AP
>     RATE=auto
>     ;;
>
> You can try using "any" in place of "yourssid".  That should work if your
> AP is running an "open" network.
>

Thanks. I tried this both with ESSID="any" and with my real ESSID but
without success. I do have an AP so I left MODE="Managed". (Altering this
did not change things). I restarted pcmcia after each alteration (I even
tried rebooting). Any idea what could be wrong? What fundamental things
should I check?

Some more information:

I've tried using redhat's network configuration tool. This offers a panel
with 4 tabs: Hardware, Devices, Hosts, DNS. Under devices it lists only
the Intel Ethernet Pro 100B as device eth0. It does not recognize the
card. When I click the add button I get a choice of hardware type:
Ethernet, Modem, ISDN, Token Ring. No wireless choice. I understand this
is not unique to my system, but the same on all redhat 7.2 configurations.

Under the Devices tab I was able to add a new device which I assigned to
eth1. But eth1 is not assigned to any hardware device. Nonetheless,
running iwconfig shows eth1 with some data about ESSID, Mode, etc This
output shows Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0. Does this
suggest any possible problems?

Thanks

Cameron


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