I need to get a new computer I bought up and running wirelessly. I bought a Netgear MA401 wireless card and I also have a D-Link DWL-650 for a laptop I can swap if need be. I'm asking about the Netgear, because I'm under the impression that it works better, however neither really seems to work at all. I simply can't get connected with my wireless AP. Anyone gotten either of these to work with SuSE 8? Is wireless under SuSE 8 just hopelessly flawed? Is there a how-to out there somewhere? Let me know, if I have to I will post error messages, etc., but right now there isn't a whole lot to show, that I can think of to post. I've followed a lot of steps listed in other threads and yet the light still blinks and the iwconfig listing for eth1 (not sure why this isn't eth-pcmcia-0) shows the card with a frequency of 42.xxGHZ. Weird. Wondering whether the problem may be the PCI/PCMCIA adapter. Question 2 along those lines. Are there any PCI 802.11b cards that work out of the box? Preston
I have three PCI WiFi cards. The Lucent Gold card and the Farallon Skyline cards both work under SuSE 8.0 - AFTER the patches were posted to fix the initial deeply broken PCMCIA weirdness. I have NOT been able to get my Netgear MA401 card to work; I wish I could - it offers superior range & performance. I also would be quite grateful to any info on how to get the Netgear card to work. -r- On Monday 12 August 2002 08:30, wrote:
I need to get a new computer I bought up and running wirelessly. I bought a Netgear MA401 wireless card and I also have a D-Link DWL-650 for a laptop I can swap if need be. I'm asking about the Netgear, because I'm under the impression that it works better, however neither really seems to work at all. I simply can't get connected with my wireless AP. Anyone gotten either of these to work with SuSE 8? Is wireless under SuSE 8 just hopelessly flawed? Is there a how-to out there somewhere?
Let me know, if I have to I will post error messages, etc., but right now there isn't a whole lot to show, that I can think of to post. I've followed a lot of steps listed in other threads and yet the light still blinks and the iwconfig listing for eth1 (not sure why this isn't eth-pcmcia-0) shows the card with a frequency of 42.xxGHZ. Weird.
Wondering whether the problem may be the PCI/PCMCIA adapter.
Question 2 along those lines. Are there any PCI 802.11b cards that work out of the box?
Preston
I got mine to work using what Keith said on the 30/05/02 First *THANKS* to Keith Winston and Joshua Marshall for their posts on ho= w to=20 configure my Netgear MA401 under SuSE 8.0. Using Keith's write up I found that I had to make only 3 changes: 1. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia change PCMCIA_SYSTEM=3D"external" 2. /etc/sysconfig/hotplug change HOTPLUG_NET_DEFAULT_HARDWARE=3Dpcmcia 3. /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf change the statement card "NETGEAR MA401 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card" to comment out the bind "prism2_cs" and insert bind "orinoco_cs" Then a reboot and all is well. The card did not require any other=20 customization and it works just fine. Dre :-> Luck is my game ;-) Linux is my aim :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- I have three PCI WiFi cards. The Lucent Gold card and the Farallon Skyline cards both work under SuSE 8.0 - AFTER the patches were posted to fix the initial deeply broken PCMCIA weirdness. I have NOT been able to get my Netgear MA401 card to work; I wish I could - it offers superior range & performance. I also would be quite grateful to any info on how to get the Netgear card to work. -r-
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, tauzero.com/suse wrote:
I have NOT been able to get my Netgear MA401 card to work; I wish I could - it offers superior range & performance.
I also would be quite grateful to any info on how to get the Netgear card to work.
I actually got it working, shortly after posting that. The trick, for me (aside from following the directions in this thread.... http://makeashorterlink.com/?W26823081) was to change the channel to channel 11. So I changed to channel 11 on the AP and then I changed to channel 11 in SuSE by editing /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless. That worked. Preston
One more thing. The other thing I did was loosely follow these directions.... http://lists2.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Apr/3040.html ..to make my /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-wireless script look like the following, in the $ACTION case... case $ACTION in start) iwconfig eth1 essid "<<MyESSID>>" mode Managed key <<mykey>> ifconfig eth0 down route add default gw <<My Gateway>> ;; status) iwconfig $INTERFACE ;; esac On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, tauzero.com/suse wrote:
I have three PCI WiFi cards.
The Lucent Gold card and the Farallon Skyline cards both work under SuSE 8.0 - AFTER the patches were posted to fix the initial deeply broken PCMCIA weirdness.
I have NOT been able to get my Netgear MA401 card to work; I wish I could - it offers superior range & performance.
I also would be quite grateful to any info on how to get the Netgear card to work.
-r-
On Monday 12 August 2002 08:30, wrote:
I need to get a new computer I bought up and running wirelessly. I bought a Netgear MA401 wireless card and I also have a D-Link DWL-650 for a laptop I can swap if need be. I'm asking about the Netgear, because I'm under the impression that it works better, however neither really seems to work at all. I simply can't get connected with my wireless AP. Anyone gotten either of these to work with SuSE 8? Is wireless under SuSE 8 just hopelessly flawed? Is there a how-to out there somewhere?
Let me know, if I have to I will post error messages, etc., but right now there isn't a whole lot to show, that I can think of to post. I've followed a lot of steps listed in other threads and yet the light still blinks and the iwconfig listing for eth1 (not sure why this isn't eth-pcmcia-0) shows the card with a frequency of 42.xxGHZ. Weird.
Wondering whether the problem may be the PCI/PCMCIA adapter.
Question 2 along those lines. Are there any PCI 802.11b cards that work out of the box?
Preston
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