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