Stephan Berg wrote:
Hello Linux-Users,
I have a problem installing my typhoon speednet wlan pcmcia-card on my dell inspiron 8200 notebook. I'm using fedora core 1. The card uses an atmel chipset. So I tried to install the atmelwlandriver from sourceforge.net. I think that the driver is installed and that the card is found by my system.
"iwconfig" shows the following:
---- schnipp ---- [root@localhost root]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.
atml0 ATMEL REVD ESSID:"WLAN" Mode:Managed Channel:9 Access Point: 00:30:F1:7E:7D:71 Bit Rate:11Mb/s RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:40 Signal level:53 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ---- schnapp ----
I'm not sure, but for a linux-newbie like me this looks brilliant.
You need to finish defining the interface.
Use 'man iwconfig' to learn how to set the ssid, ip address, etc and it should work.
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Now I don't know how to get my network started. I tried to use the graphical interface "network", but here I couldn't find the driver pcmf502rd. All the other drivers didn't work.
Thanks for every help.
Please notice that I am a linux-newbie. So the more detailled help the better. I already tried to read and understand the man pages, but I'm not very familiar with linux and these pages didn't help me a lot.
after you get it working manually, you can use the network config gui (redhat-config-network) to make the changes permanent. Or just use that method to try the settings, except, that (AFAIK) will not set the ssid for the wireless.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Stephan
