On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:44 am, Rick Kunath wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:38 pm, Marc Resnick wrote:
> > I spent a very long time getting my Wireless Network
> > Card to work. Unfortunately, now that it works, It does not obtain an IP
> > address from the access point until I reset the router, then do a service
> > network restart.
>
> What does your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (whatever your
> wireless interface is, eth0, eth1?) file for the wireless interface look
> like?
>
> How did you configure the wireless card?
>
> Are you running wireless exclusively, or along with an Ethernet Interface?
>
> Once you get a wireless IP, can you use the Internet? Does DNS work? Are
> you authenticated to the wireless network? Can you surf?
>
> Rick
Rick,
Here is my ifcfg-wlan0 file:
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.1
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
In order to configure the card, I needed to bind it to the wlan-ng prism2
drivers(because it was unrecognized), and configure the wlan-ng package.
I don't know what you mean by running a wireless exclusively, kindly explain
what you mean.
When I get an IP, I have perfect internet access. I can use the internet and
send e-mail, and anything else you need to do. I'm not sure what DNS is or if
it does, but it probably does because everything works normally just like I'm
connected with Windows. I believe I'm authenticated too.
Here's my ifconfig output when I'm connected:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12264 (11.9 Kb) TX bytes:12264 (11.9 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:D1:21:C7:B0
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:839 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:877 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:330883 (323.1 Kb) TX bytes:34746 (33.9 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
When I'm not connected, and can't reach the internet, wlan0 shows no inet
addr. There is also an added wlan0:9, with basically the same message as
wlan0 and also with no IP.
Here is my iwconfig output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] marc]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:E7:C1:C1
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:62/92 Signal level:-56 dBm Noise level:-98 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Everything there is correct. The essid is linksys. Encryption is turned off
too.
Also, if you need any more information, Derek Jennings, in this message group,
is the one who helped me. He probably knows more about what I did than I do.
--Marc
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