Have you tried installing the wireless extensions rpm? Other than that i have no clue, havent played with wifi on linux. Rob
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates >> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 12:53 PM >> To: Mandrake Expert >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [expert] wireless pain >> >> >> I finally went ahead and upgraded from MDK 8.2 to MDK 9.0 on my >> laptop (IBM >> Stinkpad 1412, Celeron). It installed just fine and everything >> is working OK >> except for wireless. >> >> I have 2 devices to play with: an Orinoco Gold and a Zoomair. >> Under 8.2 I had >> the Zoomair (prism2) working just fine. Under 9.0 I find it >> impossible to >> build the hostap driver and the wlan-ng driver just doesn't work >> at all - it >> doesn't appear to understand any wireless extension commands so >> I cannot set >> anything on the card. >> >> Under 9.0, the Orinoco gold card is accepted OK and the wvlan_cs >> module loads. >> I am able to set channel, mode, etc, with iwconfig. Problem is, >> even though >> I set the parameters to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid >> and "iwconfig >> eth0" shows all the settings as what they should be, I get no >> communication >> with my desktop which has and has had for a long time a fully >> working WUSB11 >> set to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid. They match in >> all necessary >> settings yet I am unable to ping or communicate between systems at all. >> >> Any ideas? Any suggestions? I have tried rebuilding wlan-ng drivers, >> altering the wireless.opts file, network.opts file, manually changing >> settings, all to no avail. I even reset my desktop wusb11. Nothing. >> Ad-hoc, same channel, same essid and no communication. >> >> praedor >> >>
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