Hi Nate,
If you were in Texas you weren't too far from me--I'm in New Mexico.
Anyway, still no luck connecting with the network. My access point (an
orinoco RG-1000) functions as a dhcp server, and hands out ip addresses
to the two laptops I have at home on the network. (At least that's the
way I think it works in Windows and in Xandros, a commercial debian
derivative) I'm in windows right now, so I can't check the
/etc/network/interfaces file, but I think the first line in the file is
something like "inet eth1 dhcp" which was put there automatically during
the network configuration stage of the installation. You mentioned
dhcp packages that might have to be installed. Would you happen to know
what the packages are called? During installation I configured pcmcia
support , then installed wireless modules (orinoco and hermes), set the
hostname, and configured the network using dhcp. All of this was done
using the bf24 kernel with woody release 2. I've been wondering if I
missed something during installation, which isn't unlikely because I've
only been working with debian for a few weeks now (not to mention
congenital blockheadedness).
Happy new year,
Tim
Nate Duehr wrote:
On Saturday 27 December 2003 09:53 pm, Tim Folger wrote:
Hi Nate,
Thanks for the quick reply. Here's what iwconfig produces: (I had to
copy it by hand and reboot into windows)
lo no wireless extensions
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID: 1ecb13: Nickname: "Folger"
Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.412GHz Access Point: 00:02:2D:1E:CB:13
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm Sensitivity:1/3 RTS thr:off
Fragment thr:2347B Encryption key: off Link Quality:27/92 Signal
level: -69dBm
Noise level:-96dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag: 0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Hi Tim,
Sorry it's been a while since I replied, I was travelling to Texas for
holidays.
From reading this message and some of the follow-ups it sounds like the
card is working perfectly and associating with the Access Point, and
the problem is in either getting an IP address (DHCP problem, or dhcp
packages not installed) or routing.
How is it coming along, did you have any luck in getting it to talk to
the rest of the network? Do you have a DHCP server somewhere on your
network and do you have your network scripts set up to use DHCP, or
were you planning to use a static address and set the router IP
appropriately?
