On Thursday 11 December 2003 00.18, bill s wrote:

Hi Roger,

I am emailing you off the list as I am not subscribed to the mailing list and I hope you dont mind!

I have the same problem as you did. My wireless stopped working after the latest kernel path.

SuSE people I guess you have to investigate this...

I am running Suse 8.1 Professional The wireless adapter I have is a PCI card (with Orinoco_pci driver).

I had orinoco_cs (but the orinoco part is common for us)

I had it configured as "eth0" and it was working just fine until I installed the latest kernel patch (Kernel "brk" vulnerability). I rebooted the system after the patch installation and the wireless stopped working. The system now seems to use "wlan0". I can't seem to configure the wireless card using YAST. The error message I get when I run "rcnetwork start wlan0" is something like "No configuration found for wlan0". I am wondering what could have gone wrong! How can I make the wireless (using YAST) work again? How did you fix the problem?

Have not succeeded yet - back to 2.4.19 on a SuSE 9.0 system...

Could you send me the specific steps you took and scripts the you had to write and use?

The setup configuration has changed (idea is better but it is broken for 8.1) Use yast to reconfigure your network card. It will create the needed files in /etc/sysconfig/network But - yast assumes the interface to be named eth-something... but when used it will try to find wlan0 - confusing... So I created a link in /etc/sysconfig/network from ifcfg-wlan-* to ifcfg-eth-* (you will find out what exact names to use) It will be very interesting to hear if this makes it work for you. BTW What does "uname -r" return? You can always try to configure everything manually first. As root iwconfig wlan0 ssid ... iwconfig wlan0 mode ... iwconfig wlan0 nick ... iwconfig wlan0 channel ... (or freq) iwconfig wlan0 enc ... iwconfig wlan0 rate ... - - - (and I need) iwpriv wlan0 set_port3 1 Now the card config should be ok, on to ip ifconfig wlan0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up route add default gw ggg.ggg.ggg.ggg When I have done this ping still wont work, but when pinging from another computer I can see that ifconfig wlan0 receives packages but gets error on transmit. I have checked out the source for 8.1 and 9.0 (8.1 with patch is not interesting for me now) There are LOTS of changes in orinoco.c when going from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 I will try to compile the 2.4.19 version in 2.4.21 - later... /RogerL -- Roger Larsson Skellefteå Sweden