Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Bernie Gardner <bernie.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who replied to my query, including Henry Harpending who
replied off-list due to list problems.  I now have the wireless network
working.  I applied the update suggested by Henne, but it did not have
any immediate effect.  After some additional browsing through the file
system, I found wlancfg in /usr/sbin.  Running this indicated that
"dot11DesiredSSID=linux-wlan".  I had changed the ssid setting in
/etc/sysconfig/network for essid to 'WIRELESS_ESSID="lynksys"', linksys
being the default essid for the network.  I was unclear why the system
was looking for something else, but since the laptop is the only
wireless device I'm using at the moment, I just changed the setting in
the router and it worked.  On further checking and rereading Henry's and
Keith's suggestions, I discovered that the linux-wlan setting is from
/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts.  Anyway, I'm happy it's working, but still
rather annoyed at the poor documentation SuSE provides for wireless lan,
and pcmcia in general.  The setup in fact is very simple if you know
what to do, but SuSE makes no effort to explain what is needed.  I still
have to run dhcpcd manually, but I don't turn the computer off very
often, so that's not a big problem.  Again, thanks for the advice.

Bernie
w1az@xxxxxxxx

(p.s. to Henry. Sorry for the double post.  I meant to reply to the
list, but I haven't figured out how to do that easily in evolution.)

On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 15:56, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Samstag, Juni 01, 2002 at 06:57:50, Bernie Gardner wrote:
> 
> > I know this was discussed a few weeks ago and I have tried to follow
> > previous advice, but I can't seem to get my linksys WPC-11 wireless
> > network card to work in SuSE 8.0.  It was working in 7.3 with and still
> > works in windows on the same computer so I know it's not a hardware
> > problem.  I have temporarily disabled the encryption on the wireless
> > hub, so the problem is not in the encryption.  I have included the
> > output of ifconfig and the relevant section of /var/log/messages. 
> > Running dhcpcd manually results in a time-out error. I would appreciate
> > any advice (and maybe an explanation of why SuSE apparently changed the
> > pcmcia setting files, included the drivers for wireless interface cards,
> > and yet provides absolutely no documentation on how to use them!)
> 
> Update to this package and everything should work like on 7.x.
> 
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/zoz/pcmcia/8.0/pcmcia-3.1.31-0.i386.rpm
> 
> The "problem" was that the pcmcia package was build with wlan-ng without
> implement it very well. 
> 
> Update the package with
> 
> rcpcmcia stop
> rpm -e pcmcia
> rpm -ihv pcmcia-3.1.31-0.i386.rpm
> rcpmcia start
> 
> Henne
> 
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