I had to do a couple of things to get wireless working. I'm not sure if I remember everything but here's what I do remember. Run iwconfig as root to see if your wireless card was recognized and the modules are loaded. It will also give you a bunch of other information. Make sure ESSID, Mode, Encyrption Key and Security Mode are set correctly. If not, you'll need to use YaST or edit the configuration files manually. I needed to add wlan0 to the SuSEfirewall configuration - I used YaST, but typed in all network interfaces (eth0, wlan0) I am using a laptop, so I shut down when moving between work and home. Every time I start the wireless I need to enter the following in a root console: dhcpcd wlan0 I also use the Profile Manager to change between work and home configurations. I had to add some configuration files that aren't in it's default set of files to manage, I don't remember which ones, I'm pretty sure the /etc/hosts file was one and resolv.conf also. I then added the profiles as selections to the GRUB boot menu, so I can select the correct one at boot time. A different ... -- Hugh mailto: hrtlist@cpia.jhu.edu Hugh wrote:
Bascially, the level of ease in setting up wireless-DHCP on SuSE-9.0 is no match to that on Windows-XP.
Has anyone succeeded in setting up wireless-DHCP on SuSE-9.0? I succeeded in setting up only once without paying attention to what I was doing. It was onto an WEP-disabled school access point in school in Cambridge, MA.
However, after that success, I screwed up the setup while I was doing the same thing to the 128-bit WEP-enabled home wireless router. Since then, no luck even at school over SuSE-9.0 with WEP disabled.
There are a bunch of setup files in several places: /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia /etc/pcmcia/config /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wvlan-pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp /etc/sysconfig/network/config
Looking up /var/log/messages revealed that DHCP is not properly working although it works perfectly through wire on SuSE-9.0. In my case of the wireless failure, it really does not matter whether the wireless router is WEP enabled or disabled.
My point is that there should be a tool that really imitates the setup tool in Windows XP, which is often called the Wireless Zero Configuration Service.
Does anyone have a redhat experience? It drove me nuts and made me think of switching back to RedHat after four years.
Thanks.
Hugh