Wireless setup on SuSE-9.0: terrible
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
Hugh, Which type of chipset does your PCMCIA card have? Is it dual-Band? If you could give me more information I may be able to help. I had problems with the default SuSE wireless configuration using my Linksys WPC55AG wireless card with Atheros chipset. I believe it to be an IP encapsulation problem, but did not test further as I needed the wireless working fast. The Dual-band Atheros chipsets seems to be problematic from what I have read on the net. But after installing Madwifi there has been no further problems and it is completely stable with a DHCP configuration. Here is an over view of my symptoms: The Static IP works DHCP does not I could ping the Lan side of my WAP when DHCP I could not ping the Wan side of the WAP when DHCP Rob On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 21:08, 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
On Monday 02 February 2004 16:57, James Knott wrote:
Hugh wrote:
Bascially, the level of ease in setting up wireless-DHCP on SuSE-9.0 is no match to that on Windows-XP.
Yes I know. It took me all of 2 minutes to get mine going with SuSE 9.
I know, too. I'm a complete novice when it comes to wireless. I think it took me 10 minutes to realize that I hadn't modprobed! <LOL> When I did... it worked!! ...CH
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
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