I am still struggling with this wireless connection. In most cases
system-config-network does a reasonable job of setting up configuration
for me but I'm not sure what it's doing for "wireless?" The adapter
card is plugged into a PCI slot but it keeps calling it eth1 or eth2, it
looks to me like it ought to be wlan0?
Wlassistant indicates it is having trouble with routing but I don't know
what to enter there and there is no man page:
wlassistant
kbuildsycoca running...
Loaded application options.
DHCP Client: dhclient
All executables found.
iwconfig_status: /sbin/iwconfig
==>stderr: lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Wireless interface(s): wlan0
Permissions checked.
ifconfig_status: /sbin/ifconfig wlan0
scan: /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
Networks found: 1
Checking for active connection.
Trying to get gateway address...
...from 'route'
No default gateway.
Checking for active connection.
Trying to get gateway address...
...from 'route'
No default gateway.
Checking for active connection.
Trying to get gateway address...
...from 'route'
No default gateway.
Iwconfig provides the following:
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 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
Route shows as follows:
route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
10.1.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 10.1.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
I think I should be able to browse to 192.168.1.1 and see the router set
up screen from this computer via the Linksys WMP54G adapter card.
Wlassistant indicates that I have a good quality signal on channel 6.
But iwconfig shows zero signal? I guess if I could satisfy the routing
requirement it would begin to work.
Can anyone tell me what to do next?
Bob Goodwin
