Hi,

        it's a DSE 802.11g PCI XH8343

iwconfig:
        lo - no wireless extensions found
        eth0- no wireless extensions found
        wlan0 - 802.11b/g Mode: managed
                Frequency 2.417GHz
                Access Point: not associated
                Bit Rate: 11Mb/s
                Retry: on Fragment thr:off
                Power management: off
                Link Quality: 0 Signal Level: 0 ( all the rest are also zero )

ifconfig
        
        lo - is this needed?

        wlan0 -
                Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:B7:B8:A8
                UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
TX packets: 1 errors:3173 dropped: 352 overruns:0 carrier: 0 collsisions: 0 tx queuelen:1000
                RX bytes: 71 (71.0 b) TXbytes:385812 (376.7KiB)
                Interrupts:58 Memory f889a000-f889a100

        
The network person tells me that WEP is all there is. I'm trying to connect to a NetComm Super-G Wireless Firewall Router if that helps.

dmesg and lspci gave me a _lot_ of output, I'm transcribing the output from one PC to another - can you give me an idea of what I'm looking for?

Cheers,

Andy

Craig FALCONER wrote:
So you have a machine with a wireless NIC that doesn't connect...

Please provide more info:
Output of lspci
Output of dmesg What chipset NIC is it?
Output of iwconfig and ifconfig
And talk to the network people and ask for the WPA key and details.  Its
unlikely to be just WEP.

BTW WPA also requires wpasupplicant to be running, to handle the background
key changes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Leach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 October 2006 10:19 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Linux in a M$ DHCP world


        I set up the work one today, which was just as trivial to do up to
one point. The network is wireless and, while the card is recognised, I can't access anything on the lan, I can't ping anything local or remote either. I have the WEP(?) Key entered and DHCP selected but nothing is happening. Google's not giving me much, apart from disabling eth0 - which I'll try tomorrow.





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