On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Harald T Zipko wrote: > Hi out there, > > I am desperate :( - everything works except the wireless stuff.... For > some hours I tried to enable a wireless pci-adapter/pcmcia-card device. > According to the manufacturer's site the card is supported in linux for > it is a prism II based pcmcia-system (I suppose I should use the > orinoco driver - or am I wrong??) During boot process the device is > obviousely recognized: > > cardmgr[1166]: product info: "", "IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN/PC Card","" > > Thanks to Ben I thought to activate the device according to his reply in > marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=100118225827793&w=2
I hope you didn't put the airport line your /etc/modules.conf since that isn't applicable to your hardware. Please send the output of this to the list: ifconfig -a > In addition in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (that should be > the wireless interface...) I do not know exactly why and how to edit > the following lines for this computer should work as a dhcp-server on > an office lan... So I think the last line is useless, 'cause the > computer itself should be the accesspoint - again, am I wrong?? > > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=encryptionkeyforwep > > WIRELESS_ESSID=nameofaccesspoint The ESSID is the network name that you are trying to connect to. The ENC_KEY is the encryption key for the network you are trying to connect to. You may or may not have this. If you're taking minimal security precautions you really ought to. The access point refers to the device which connects to the wired network. I can't give really good advice without further details about topology of your wired and wireless network. If you can give me a better sense of exactly what you are trying to do I can probably answer better. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
