Alright everybody, Just got my shiny new 8.2 discs in the mail today and I'm testing it out on a Dell inspiron 5000. Install and hardware detection very smooth. Overall I like it (only had an hour or so). However, I'm trying to get this Linksys WPC11v3 PC Card to work and am running into trouble. YaST doesn't recognize the card. For those who have it working, can you please lay out the steps you took to get this working (for 8.1 or 8.2)? Things such as config files changed/edited/added/etc. would be great. I'd love to get this card working under linux. Thanks all. Greg
On Thursday 17 April 2003 20:21, Greg Macek wrote:
Alright everybody,
Just got my shiny new 8.2 discs in the mail today and I'm testing it out on a Dell inspiron 5000. Install and hardware detection very smooth. Overall I like it (only had an hour or so). However, I'm trying to get this Linksys WPC11v3 PC Card to work and am running into trouble. YaST doesn't recognize the card.
For those who have it working, can you please lay out the steps you took to get this working (for 8.1 or 8.2)? Things such as config files changed/edited/added/etc. would be great. I'd love to get this card working under linux. Thanks all.
Greg
The steps should help: 1) After slotting the card in the pcmcia slot, switch to the system messgaes console by pressing "alt-f10". A reference to the device should show up. "No configuration file found for wlan-pcmcia-1 wlan0. The device reference is wlan0. 2) Switch back to the dektop and fire up a console session. "cardctl ident" should also confirm that the card is recognised. 3) Set the options using "iwconfig" command. "iwconfig wlan0 mode managed" sets the card to access a wireless access point. "iwconfig mode AdHoc" sets up to link directly with another apapter. 4) "iwconfig wlan0essid <wireless>" matches the essid string with other access points or adapters. In "<Wireless>" enter the essid string. For example if the essid string is MyLan the command would be "iwconfig wlan0 essid MyLan". 5) "dhcpcd wlan0" will request an ipaddress from a dhcp server. "ifconfig 10.10.10.2" manually assings an ip address to the adapter. Do not be discouraged if some of the commands do not work. With Samsung, after inserting the card, "dhcpcd wlan0" configures the card automatically. The iwconfig commands do not work. Hope this helps. LW999
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 18:09, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
On Thursday 17 April 2003 20:21, Greg Macek wrote:
Alright everybody,
Just got my shiny new 8.2 discs in the mail today and I'm testing it out on a Dell inspiron 5000. Install and hardware detection very smooth. Overall I like it (only had an hour or so). However, I'm trying to get this Linksys WPC11v3 PC Card to work and am running into trouble. YaST doesn't recognize the card.
For those who have it working, can you please lay out the steps you took to get this working (for 8.1 or 8.2)? Things such as config files changed/edited/added/etc. would be great. I'd love to get this card working under linux. Thanks all.
Greg
The steps should help:
1) After slotting the card in the pcmcia slot, switch to the system messgaes console by pressing "alt-f10". A reference to the device should show up. "No configuration file found for wlan-pcmcia-1 wlan0. The device reference is wlan0.
2) Switch back to the dektop and fire up a console session. "cardctl ident" should also confirm that the card is recognised.
3) Set the options using "iwconfig" command. "iwconfig wlan0 mode managed" sets the card to access a wireless access point. "iwconfig mode AdHoc" sets up to link directly with another apapter.
4) "iwconfig wlan0essid <wireless>" matches the essid string with other access points or adapters. In "<Wireless>" enter the essid string. For example if the essid string is MyLan the command would be "iwconfig wlan0 essid MyLan".
5) "dhcpcd wlan0" will request an ipaddress from a dhcp server. "ifconfig 10.10.10.2" manually assings an ip address to the adapter.
Do not be discouraged if some of the commands do not work. With Samsung, after inserting the card, "dhcpcd wlan0" configures the card automatically. The iwconfig commands do not work.
Hope this helps.
LW999
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work at all. I found some info saying that you can use the orinoco driver with these cards, but I'm not having too much luck with my home WAP (Linksys WAP11 of all things). I did have it working earlier today at work when connecting to a Buffalo WAP with a WEP key! But no go at home with the orinoco or the prism2_cs driver - though is this wrong since it's a prism3 card? What should I do? Try finding more updated drivers that may work? (HostAP?) Or is there something else?
I have exactly that card and what I did is this: (I'm a complete WLAN newcomer and know nothing) - install 8.2 - buy this card - go into a Starbucks with wireless access - power on the notebook - insert the card - su - (become root) - "ifup-dhcp wlan0" (done, next comes the for-pay part) - start Netscape, go to any URL - the page that comes up was the HotSpot login page - I subscribed (pay-as-you-go) and logged in - I was online My experience with yast2, which I also tried: Forget it. I was told this card uses another driver than what yast2 supports/expects. I don't care, it works beautifully without yast2! Greg Macek wrote:
Alright everybody,
Just got my shiny new 8.2 discs in the mail today and I'm testing it out on a Dell inspiron 5000. Install and hardware detection very smooth. Overall I like it (only had an hour or so). However, I'm trying to get this Linksys WPC11v3 PC Card to work and am running into trouble. YaST doesn't recognize the card.
For those who have it working, can you please lay out the steps you took to get this working (for 8.1 or 8.2)? Things such as config files changed/edited/added/etc. would be great. I'd love to get this card working under linux. Thanks all.
Thanks for the info. Indeed YaST was of no help. One day I hope the developers can integrate devices from wlan-ng into YaST for configuration. I ended up going to the hostAP drivers to make it work (confirmed it on two computers. The other thing I had to do with my Linksys, possibly due also to having a Linksys wireless AP at home, is forcing the channel to be 11 (at least for my AP). Then all was fine. Good luck to others out there... Drivers from here... http://hostap.epitest.fi/ On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 15:19, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
I have exactly that card and what I did is this: (I'm a complete WLAN newcomer and know nothing)
- install 8.2 - buy this card - go into a Starbucks with wireless access - power on the notebook - insert the card - su - (become root) - "ifup-dhcp wlan0"
(done, next comes the for-pay part)
- start Netscape, go to any URL - the page that comes up was the HotSpot login page - I subscribed (pay-as-you-go) and logged in - I was online
My experience with yast2, which I also tried: Forget it. I was told this card uses another driver than what yast2 supports/expects. I don't care, it works beautifully without yast2!
Greg Macek wrote:
Alright everybody,
Just got my shiny new 8.2 discs in the mail today and I'm testing it out on a Dell inspiron 5000. Install and hardware detection very smooth. Overall I like it (only had an hour or so). However, I'm trying to get this Linksys WPC11v3 PC Card to work and am running into trouble. YaST doesn't recognize the card.
For those who have it working, can you please lay out the steps you took to get this working (for 8.1 or 8.2)? Things such as config files changed/edited/added/etc. would be great. I'd love to get this card working under linux. Thanks all.
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