I have just installed 9.3 on my laptop and can not get an Orinoco card to work. I am using YaST and it does not seem to connect to my network. I have double checked and my WEP key is correct and so is the essid. When I use my cisco card it works just fine. Any ideas? -- Ken Swain ken@kenswain.com http://kenswain.com "Spoof them all, let god sort them out."
El Lunes, 15 de Agosto de 2005 00:24, Ken Swain escribió:
I have just installed 9.3 on my laptop and can not get an Orinoco card to work. I am using YaST and it does not seem to connect to my network. I have double checked and my WEP key is correct and so is the essid. When I use my cisco card it works just fine. Any ideas?
I have an Orinoco PC-Gold card too and it works perfectly for me in Suse 9.3. I even didn't have to configure it: I plugged it and it just worked. :) -- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.
On 8/14/05, Víctor Fernández Martínez
I have an Orinoco PC-Gold card too and it works perfectly for me in Suse 9.3. I even didn't have to configure it: I plugged it and it just worked. :)
How did you configure the WEP key? -- Ken Swain ken@kenswain.com http://kenswain.com "Spoof them all, let god sort them out."
El Lunes, 15 de Agosto de 2005 01:06, Ken Swain escribió:
On 8/14/05, Víctor Fernández Martínez
wrote: I have an Orinoco PC-Gold card too and it works perfectly for me in Suse 9.3. I even didn't have to configure it: I plugged it and it just worked. :)
How did you configure the WEP key?
Hmmm... I don't remember, but I think I didn't need to configure it. I use the wireless in the university and AFAIK they don't have a WEP key, just the ESSID. So as soon as you plug in your wireless card you get an IP if you had the ESSID configured. Then you need to connect through a VPN and that's all. -- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.
Am Montag, 15. August 2005 00:24 schrieb Ken Swain:
I have just installed 9.3 on my laptop and can not get an Orinoco card to work. I am using YaST and it does not seem to connect to my network. I have double checked and my WEP key is correct and so is the essid. When I use my cisco card it works just fine. Any ideas?
Did you tried to setup your card with iwconfig instead of Yast? I've had the problem that some, but not all settings made with Yast were ignored by my card. So i could set my essid and the key in Yast, but when i've looked with iwconfig at the card, it doesnt show key or essid. At the console i could setup the card, so i've made a workaround. The settings made in Yast are stored in /etc/sysconfig/network in files named ifcfg-<cardname>, so my card is named ifcfg-wlan0-xxx (xxx is the busnumber or the MAC-address of your card). In this file i have to made some changes, so now it looks this way: BOOTPROTO='dhcp' MTU='1500' NAME='Marvell Ethernet controller' REMOTE_IPADDR='' STARTMODE='auto' UNIQUE='xxxx.XxxxXxxX' USERCONTROL='no' #WIRELESS_AP='' #WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open' WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto' WIRELESS_MODE='Managed' #WIRELESS_CA_CERT='' WIRELESS_CHANNEL='6' #WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT='' #WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0' #WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='' WIRELESS_ESSID='xxxxxxxx' WIRELESS_KEYMODE='open' WIRELESS_KEY='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' #WIRELESS_KEY_0='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' #WIRELESS_KEY_1='' #WIRELESS_KEY_2='' #WIRELESS_KEY_3='' WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128' #WIRELESS_POWER='yes' #WIRELESS_NICK='' #WIRELESS_NWID='' WIRELESS_POWER='yes' #WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='' #WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD='' #WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='' _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:07:00.0' NETWORK='192.168.1.0' GATEWAY='192.168.1.254' BROADCAST='192.168.1.255' PREFIXLEN='' /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 down /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid 'xxxxxxxxx' /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key open xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.254 /sbin/dhcpcd wlan0 Maybe this could send you in the right direction to solve your problem. regards, Jens
have you run dmesg?
Is the OS finding the device?
Are you using open or shared authentication?
--- Ken Swain
I have just installed 9.3 on my laptop and can not get an Orinoco card to work. I am using YaST and it does not seem to connect to my network. I have double checked and my WEP key is correct and so is the essid. When I use my cisco card it works just fine. Any ideas?
-- Ken Swain ken@kenswain.com http://kenswain.com "Spoof them all, let god sort them out."
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Carlos
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Ken Swain
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Víctor Fernández Martínez