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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:26:03AM +0100, arawak wrote: : : Tried the iwconfig stuff see below; : : linux:~ # iwconfig wlan0 essid Fireless channel 1 mode Managed rate auto : enc £kings$6..,. : Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented. : : ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 : : worked but when I ping the gw 192.168.0.1 it failed with : 'destination unreachable' : : What could I try now... : : Do you know what this means? : : Please don't give up on this as I can't ...;) I don't believe that prism2_cs implements all the wireless extensions, and thus iwconfig won't work. However, the fix is rather easy. Edit /etc/pcmcia/wlang-ng.opts. In the "INFRASTRUCTURE STATION START", change "DesiredSSID" to "" so that you can associate to *any* AP. Then you should be able to do a "./wlan-ng start wlan0" and have the card associate. From there set the ip address via DHCP or ifconfig. To have the interface start automagically, you'll need to create a "/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia-0" by hand (as far as I can tell YaST2 doesn't config wlan cards). Oh, and don't forget to create the symlink to "ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia". Mine reads as such: ---begin /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia-0 BOOTPROTO='dhcp' DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK='yes' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='hotplug' UNIQUE='' WIRELESS='yes' WIRELESS_ESSID='' WIRELESS_KEY='' WIRELESS_MODE='Automatic' WIRELESS_NICK='' WIRELESS_NWID='nomad' ---end /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia-0 This is based on the config for eth0 (orinoco_cs) that YaST2 did. I don't believe that the "WIRELESS*" stuff is needed since those are passed to iwconfig. But I'm too lazy to rip them out and verify. Hope this helps. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!