On Saturday 07 of February 2004 23:37, Marius Ionescu wrote:
Hi,
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-R505DL laptop with dual boot XP-Suse 9. I have almost everything workin on it, excpet for two problems. The most important one is the wireless. I have a PCMCIA Linksys WPC11 card. When I try to set it up with Yast, it seems to recognize it. The steps I do are: 1. I choose Wireless from "Network Device" 2. Click on Wireless settings, and set Operating Mode to Managed (I tried also with Automatic), set ESSID to any, and choose some name for Nick Name. 3. I click on PCMCIA and the Next, Next (leaving default for DHCP).
The card starts to blink, but the internet is not working. When I try iwconfig, it says that the link quality is 0/92 and access Point is 00:00:00:00:00, and no local Ip adress.
I am don't know much about the wireless setup in general (in Windows a friend of mine did it), so maybe I am doing something wrong.
Any help is greatly appreciated,
check your routing you get from dhcp route -n should be the same as when you have had only eht0 configured. does your system starts eth0 at boot? and the method is dhcp? if so, and no cable connection is present eth0 can not be configured by dhcp server when booting (gets no data because there is no cable hooked in). then your system tries to configure wlan0 using dhcp server and "modify_resolve" can not modify routing and resolve tables. see your log in /var/log/messages solution is to remove file ifcfg-eth0 from /etc/sysconfig/network, leaving only ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia. if you require to use sometimes eth0 than a good idea is to use "profiles" - scmp btw: also mine wlan0 is configures as "hotplug" not "dhcp" -- Marek Chlopek mchlopek@post.pl