[ltp] Wireless Networking

[Martin West]

I have the same problem. Works ok on windows me but not on MDK 8.1, I have
been playing with the wireless.props file. The card comes up and is visible
but does not connect.
regards Martin West

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Hooper" <cameron@hooper.net>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Wireless Networking


> 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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