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