Dear All, I have an EnGenius ultra Long Range Wireless Lan Pc Card EL-2511CD Plus that was working great on my Suse8 on my Compaq laptop. This card is in the pcmcia slot. Now that I have installed 8.2 no internet yet. Yast seemed to detect it well and Kwifimanager shows that it is connected and supposedly doing fine but I cannot reach the internet yet. I have gone through alot of the archives for this problem and some mentioned that a symlink was necessary for it to be recognized correctly. I have not done that yet since I was not sure if that would help in my case since kwifimanager knows it is there and is monitoring it just fine it seems. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia
Hi Marcia, I just setup a wireless internet connection (with a lot of help) and everything was recognized etc in SuSE 8.2. However I could not connect to the internet and had to disable the firewall. After that everything was OK. HTH. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin. On Sunday 29 June 2003 07:11, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I have an EnGenius ultra Long Range Wireless Lan Pc Card EL-2511CD Plus that was working great on my Suse8 on my Compaq laptop. This card is in the pcmcia slot. Now that I have installed 8.2 no internet yet. Yast seemed to detect it well and Kwifimanager shows that it is connected and supposedly doing fine but I cannot reach the internet yet. I have gone through alot of the archives for this problem and some mentioned that a symlink was necessary for it to be recognized correctly. I have not done that yet since I was not sure if that would help in my case since kwifimanager knows it is there and is monitoring it just fine it seems.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Marcia
As root try iwconfig and see if the card is seen by the OS. Then try ifconfig and see if the card was given an inet address. If you were not given an IP address you might check that you haven't firewalled yourself off as Mr. Wisse said or maybe that DHCP is configured wrong. Make sure that your card is in the right mode either ad-hoc or infrastructure mode your SSID is correct etc. pben On Sunday 29 June 2003 01:11 pm, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I have an EnGenius ultra Long Range Wireless Lan Pc Card EL-2511CD Plus that was working great on my Suse8 on my Compaq laptop. This card is in the pcmcia slot. Now that I have installed 8.2 no internet yet. Yast seemed to detect it well and Kwifimanager shows that it is connected and supposedly doing fine but I cannot reach the internet yet. I have gone through alot of the archives for this problem and some mentioned that a symlink was necessary for it to be recognized correctly. I have not done that yet since I was not sure if that would help in my case since kwifimanager knows it is there and is monitoring it just fine it seems.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Marcia
Paul Benjamin wrote:
As root try iwconfig and see if the card is seen by the OS. Then try ifconfig and see if the card was given an inet address. If you were not given an IP address you might check that you haven't firewalled yourself off as Mr. Wisse said or maybe that DHCP is configured wrong. Make sure that your card is in the right mode either ad-hoc or infrastructure mode your SSID is correct etc.
pben
On Sunday 29 June 2003 01:11 pm, Marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I have an EnGenius ultra Long Range Wireless Lan Pc Card EL-2511CD Plus that was working great on my Suse8 on my Compaq laptop. This card is in the pcmcia slot. Now that I have installed 8.2 no internet yet. Yast seemed to detect it well and Kwifimanager shows that it is connected and supposedly doing fine but I cannot reach the internet yet. I have gone through alot of the archives for this problem and some mentioned that a symlink was necessary for it to be recognized correctly. I have not done that yet since I was not sure if that would help in my case since kwifimanager knows it is there and is monitoring it just fine it seems.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Marcia
Thank you for your immediate response and help. I checked iwconfig and it recognizes my card as eth1 and it looks like everything should be working. I checked the firewall situation and it looks like it is not enabled . Any other thoughts here? Sincerely, Marcia
So do you have an IP address, what was the resulf of the ifconfig? On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:02 pm, Marcia wrote:
Thank you for your immediate response and help. I checked iwconfig and it recognizes my card as eth1 and it looks like everything should be working. I checked the firewall situation and it looks like it is not enabled . Any other thoughts here?
Sincerely,
Marcia
Paul Benjamin wrote:
So do you have an IP address, what was the resulf of the ifconfig?
On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:02 pm, Marcia wrote:
Thank you for your immediate response and help. I checked iwconfig and it recognizes my card as eth1 and it looks like everything should be working. I checked the firewall situation and it looks like it is not enabled . Any other thoughts here?
Sincerely,
Marcia
Thanks again for helping. I checked ifconfig and got a good readout for the card. Everything looks fine that I can tell. My ip address is correct. I am using dhcp, too . How can I tell for sure that I do not have a firewall going? It appears that I do not, but I would not necessarily know if it is enabled by default. Thanks, Marcia
* Marcia <raknakce@cox-internet.com> [06-29-03 17:16]: [snip ...]
Thanks again for helping. I checked ifconfig and got a good readout for the card. Everything looks fine that I can tell. My ip address is correct. I am using dhcp, too . How can I tell for sure that I do not have a firewall going? It appears that I do not, but I would not necessarily know if it is enabled by default.
as root: rcSuSEfirewall2 status -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Marcia <raknakce@cox-internet.com> [06-29-03 17:16]: [snip ...]
Thanks again for helping. I checked ifconfig and got a good readout for the card. Everything looks fine that I can tell. My ip address is correct. I am using dhcp, too . How can I tell for sure that I do not have a firewall going? It appears that I do not, but I would not necessarily know if it is enabled by default.
as root: rcSuSEfirewall2 status
Thanks so much. I tried this and definitely I do not have a firewall enabled at this time. I still cannot figure out why I cannot get on the net. Thanks. Marcia
Have you looked in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth(0-12) If there is no entry for an ESSID channel you need to make one. As a newbie I guessed when I did mine and just edited in CHANNEL"6" at the bottom of the config scripts. It worked too. :-) That might be the lynchpin, find out what the router is broadcasting on and make sure your laptop is on the same. On Sunday 29 June 2003 16:53, Marcia wrote:
Thanks so much. I tried this and definitely I do not have a firewall enabled at this time. I still cannot figure out why I cannot get on the net. Thanks.
Marcia
Ok for web browsing and client side stuff if you are using the personal firewall you shouldn't have any problems. The config for it is at: Yast2->System->Editor for /etc/sysconfig Files->Network->Firewall-> personal-firewall You put in the interfaces you want to reject inbound probes. If you are running the full firewall it is at: Yast2->Security and Users->Firewall I haven't used it so you are on your own from there. SuSE firewalls should not have blocked outbound connections unless you have been playing with it or may playing with iptables at the command line. The next thing to try is do you get a ping responce from your ISP? Like this: pben@linux:~> ping cox-internet.com PING cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=67.1 ms 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=330 ms 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=152 ms --- cox-internet.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2016ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 67.136/183.173/330.375/109.703 ms pben@linux:~> pben@linux:~> This should tell you if the DNS lookup is working and if you are sending and receiving ok. On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:25 pm, Marcia wrote:
Paul Benjamin wrote:
So do you have an IP address, what was the resulf of the ifconfig?
On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:02 pm, Marcia wrote:
Thank you for your immediate response and help. I checked iwconfig and it recognizes my card as eth1 and it looks like everything should be working. I checked the firewall situation and it looks like it is not enabled . Any other thoughts here?
Sincerely,
Marcia
Thanks again for helping. I checked ifconfig and got a good readout for the card. Everything looks fine that I can tell. My ip address is correct. I am using dhcp, too . How can I tell for sure that I do not have a firewall going? It appears that I do not, but I would not necessarily know if it is enabled by default.
Thanks,
Marcia
I'm having a problem with my wireless card also. I've used it with Redhat 9, Mandrake 8.2 and Lindows with no problem. It's on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The card is a d-link DWL-650+. I've tried just about every setting I Can think of. When I try iwconfig it tells me Lo no wireless extensions Sit0 no wireless extensions I have the firewall shut down. It finds my card with no problem. Thanks Jeff Filapose
If you have gotten the DWL-650+ to work with Red Hat and Lindows there must be something strange going on. The 650+ uses a TI chipset that doen't have a linux driver! I have a DWL-650 (almost 18 months old). I suggest you reinstall Lindows. Because nobody else has a driver under Linux. There is a good card chipset database at: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters_supported_html2.html On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:39 pm, Jeff Filapose wrote:
I'm having a problem with my wireless card also. I've used it with Redhat 9, Mandrake 8.2 and Lindows with no problem. It's on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The card is a d-link DWL-650+. I've tried just about every setting I Can think of. When I try iwconfig it tells me
Lo no wireless extensions
Sit0 no wireless extensions
I have the firewall shut down. It finds my card with no problem.
Thanks Jeff Filapose
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Benjamin [mailto:pben_suse@cox.net] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 7:58 PM To: SuSE English Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 8.2 wireless problems also If you have gotten the DWL-650+ to work with Red Hat and Lindows there must be something strange going on. The 650+ uses a TI chipset that doen't have a linux driver! I have a DWL-650 (almost 18 months old). I suggest you reinstall Lindows. Because nobody else has a driver under Linux. There is a good card chipset database at: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters_supported_html2.html On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:39 pm, Jeff Filapose wrote:
I'm having a problem with my wireless card also. I've used it with Redhat 9, Mandrake 8.2 and Lindows with no problem. It's on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The card is a d-link DWL-650+. I've tried just about every setting I Can think of. When I try iwconfig it tells me
Lo no wireless extensions
Sit0 no wireless extensions
I have the firewall shut down. It finds my card with no problem.
Thanks Jeff Filapose
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I made a mistake there are binary only drivers for Wi-Fi cards based on the TI ACX-100 chipset. Here are the web links for more information: http://www.ivor.it/wireless/acx.html http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ http://www.ivor.it/wireless/HOWTO_acx100.txt On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:57 pm, Paul Benjamin wrote:
If you have gotten the DWL-650+ to work with Red Hat and Lindows there must be something strange going on. The 650+ uses a TI chipset that doen't have a linux driver! I have a DWL-650 (almost 18 months old).
Paul Benjamin wrote:
Ok for web browsing and client side stuff if you are using the personal firewall you shouldn't have any problems. The config for it is at:
Yast2->System->Editor for /etc/sysconfig Files->Network->Firewall-> personal-firewall
You put in the interfaces you want to reject inbound probes.
If you are running the full firewall it is at:
Yast2->Security and Users->Firewall
I haven't used it so you are on your own from there.
SuSE firewalls should not have blocked outbound connections unless you have been playing with it or may playing with iptables at the command line. The next thing to try is do you get a ping responce from your ISP? Like this:
pben@linux:~> ping cox-internet.com PING cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=67.1 ms 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=330 ms 64 bytes from pw1.cox-internet.com (66.76.2.80): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=152 ms
--- cox-internet.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2016ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 67.136/183.173/330.375/109.703 ms pben@linux:~> pben@linux:~>
This should tell you if the DNS lookup is working and if you are sending and receiving ok.
On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:25 pm, Marcia wrote:
Paul Benjamin wrote:
So do you have an IP address, what was the resulf of the ifconfig?
On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:02 pm, Marcia wrote:
Thank you for your immediate response and help. I checked iwconfig and it recognizes my card as eth1 and it looks like everything should be working. I checked the firewall situation and it looks like it is not enabled . Any other thoughts here?
Sincerely,
Marcia
Thanks again for helping. I checked ifconfig and got a good readout for the card. Everything looks fine that I can tell. My ip address is correct. I am using dhcp, too . How can I tell for sure that I do not have a firewall going? It appears that I do not, but I would not necessarily know if it is enabled by default.
Thanks,
Marcia
Dear All, Thank you so much for your help. I have my wireless setup correctly now and I am on the net.:) I had to make a fair amount of changes to accomplish this. It turned out that my card needed the orinoco driver instead of the prism2 one that it was given. I had to use cardctl ident to get the exact info for my card then I added that to the /etc/pcmcia/config file. After that I edited the /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless file to add the correct options. Then I did the pcmcia restart. After all of that I went into Yast2 and deleted my old wireless setup and started over with the new one. I chose pcmcia, wireless, filled in the correct mode and essid. I added the correct domain name and nameservers. Afer all that I shut down, restarted and voila I was on the internet. Hurrrrrayyyy!!!:) I was hoping that Yast2 would correctly setup my card without having to configure all of those files, but I guess 8.2 still has not been able to bind the orinoco driver to some cards yet. At least it works. In other words the problem was that Suse wanted to use the wrong driver for my card. I am happy that it works now. Thanks alot for all of your help. Sincerely, Marcia
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