New subject: [opensuse] Problems with wireless devices?

12 Aug 2005

      I too am unable to get this to work on 2 laptops: dell latitude D600 and ibm t42. I tried to use the ipw2100 rpm from Suse 9.3. This installed with no problems but was not able to ping internal or external. I use 128bit static wep hex. Also use MAC authentication and both laptops MAC address is registered with my AP. I can right click kinternet->wireless connection then click scan tab->start scan; enter in the 128bit hex key and click connect and will always say "authenticated successfully" but can not ping anything internal or external. Anybody gotten the wireless to work.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos [mailto:dubbsix@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:29 PM
To: opensuse@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Problems with wireless devices?

Try no encryption -- as a test.  

Is your authentication type set as open or shared?

--- robbinsc@email.arizona.edu wrote:
...
Quoting Carlos :
Yes - AP is using 128bit hex WEP.  I've set the key
a few times, but I can't
figure where the problem is....I'll give no
encryption a go.
...
Is the AP setup using any encryption?
--- robbinsc@email.arizona.edu wrote:
...
I'm having a lot of trouble getting my wireless
card
to work with my wireless
AP.   I have one of the
famous-for-not-releasing-drivers Broadcom
chipsets
(specifically the Dell Truemobile 1300 (B/G) ).
I
tried using ndiswrapper, but
I had little success.  The driver installed
properly, and everything else worked
fine, but I couldn't get SuSE to ping the router
and
get an IP address.  I tried
a few restarts, but nothing happened.  I started
over again, this time using
Linuxant's Driverloader package.  The problem
remains the same.  I've set the
configuration quite a few times, both within YaST
and by using iwconfig.  I've
also tried using ifdown to stop eth1 and then
restart it and dhcp with ifup.
Is this a known bug, or am I doing something
wrong?
I can confirm the AP is
working fine, because the other computers on my
network are reporting no
problems.  The weird thing is - if I execute
KWifiManager, the AP is seen, the
ESSID displayed, and the signal is reported as
100%
(which makes sense, as I'm
seated right next to the router), but it can't
detect the MAC of the AP, and it
says that it's disconnected.
Thanks for the help.
-Chris
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RE: [opensuse] Problems with wireless devices?

Christopher S. Arnold

robbinsc＠email.arizona.edu

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