I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Netgear MA401 wireless card. I'm running Suse 9. Network Devices sees the card and seems to have it configured but I can't get it to work. I've tried PCMCIA set to kernel and external. If I set it to kernel and insert the card, the light on the card show steady green like it's connected but when I do ifconfig or iwconfig, it doesn't show wlan. If I set it to external and plug the card in, the green light on the card blinks, like it's not connected, but when I run ifconfig and iwconfig, it does show wlan0. I'm kindof new to linux, but had this working in Suse 8.2. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I don't know if this will exactly resolve your problem, but try rebooting with CD 1 and do a repair installation, when it gets to the bit where it searches installed packages it will give (or at least gave me) notice that the hotplug package needed to be repaired. Also (its been a while and I dont have it set up at present) but you might also need to use the network id as 'any' as opposed to the probable manufacturer name - in my case 'linksys' - on your wireless router. Also dont try to set the channel id - let it automatically detect. /etc/sysconfig/network is a directory to also look at. search for for files *pmcia* hth. Rocco Charamella wrote:
I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Netgear MA401 wireless card. I'm running Suse 9. Network Devices sees the card and seems to have it configured but I can't get it to work. I've tried PCMCIA set to kernel and external. If I set it to kernel and insert the card, the light on the card show steady green like it's connected but when I do ifconfig or iwconfig, it doesn't show wlan. If I set it to external and plug the card in, the green light on the card blinks, like it's not connected, but when I run ifconfig and iwconfig, it does show wlan0. I'm kindof new to linux, but had this working in Suse 8.2. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Gregory Baboolal
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