-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Registered Linux - 256979 (http://counter.il.org for more information) NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//cXj5fq6h2uDDlQRAvKeAJ9X7UIxWaXrQSXcm/i1bFUU0cy7RgCdF4R4 RI1Bcq5u2XGWH3zLo1THkxI= =Dhdq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
