Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-19 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:15:32 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: [snip] What card? The linux-wlan-ng stuff will NOT work on hermes cards. All cards that run the hermes chipset (Orinoco and a pile of others) run WEP. Try this: iwconfig eth# key

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-18 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 06:41 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:49:53 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again David, with your help I almost there! Vern, When you get this all ironed out... why not write up a detailed step-by-step for the rest of us to follow?

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-18 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:35:47 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2001 06:41 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:49:53 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again David, with your help I almost there! Vern, When you get this all

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-04 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Monday 03 December 2001 06:06 pm, you wrote: Vern W Heesch wrote: [snip] Here is what I have the Access Point as: ESSID = linksys1 Channel = 1 Access Point Name = myap1 Fragmentation RTS Thresholds = 2346 Authentication Type = both Open System and Shared key WEP key

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-04 Thread David A. Bandel
Vern W Heesch wrote: On Monday 03 December 2001 06:06 pm, you wrote: [snip] Thanks again David, with your help I almost there! I discovered that it has to do with the key. I disabled WEP on the access point and now it works. The access point has 3 choices for WEP, disabled, 64-bit

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:49:53 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again David, with your help I almost there! Vern, When you get this all ironed out... why not write up a detailed step-by-step for the rest of us to follow? --

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-03 Thread David A. Bandel
Vern W Heesch wrote: snip [snip] Thanks David. That got me closer. It now loads the driver and the cards green light is active. I still have something wrong though because I can't ping any other machines here. I am using WEP on the Access Point, perhaps that makes a difference

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-03 Thread Vern W Heesch
[snip] OK, couple of things: 1. you need to edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. Read the file, but at the very least you'll need to be sure you have something for: ESSID (that's your network name) KEY (the crypto key to enter the network -- shame on them if they don't use one) check your

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-03 Thread David A. Bandel
Vern W Heesch wrote: [snip] [snip] Thanks David. Getting a little closer. I still have something wrong . I don't have a static ip though. My isp does use DHCP. I have been trying to modify the Lucent Wavelan IEEE section in wireless.opts Here is what iwconfig shows for eth1: IEEE

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-03 Thread David A. Bandel
Vern W Heesch wrote: [snip] [snip] Thanks David. Getting a little closer. I still have something wrong . I don't have a static ip though. My isp does use DHCP. I have been trying to modify the Lucent Wavelan IEEE section in wireless.opts Here is what iwconfig shows for eth1: IEEE

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote: Vern W Heesch wrote: I am in need of help with setting up the WPC11 pcmcia card for my laptop. I have qwest DSL with a dynamic ip. The laptop is running OpenLinux 3.1. I tried to follow the step by step, but I must be missing something.

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:17:31PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: ... I'm ready to give up and reload windows on my laptop because I am getting nowhere on this. I have spent about 12 hours trying everything I could think of. I loaded pcmcia-cs-3.1.30 and also linux-wlan-ng-0.1.10 and still cannot

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Sunday 02 December 2001 04:52 pm, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:17:31PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: ... What is in the /var/log/messages file when you insert the card? Bill /var/log/messages showed: cardmgr[1994]: executing: 'modprobe -r wvlan_cs' kernel: wavelan_cs: unloading

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread David A. Bandel
Vern W Heesch wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2001 04:52 pm, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:17:31PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: ... What is in the /var/log/messages file when you insert the card? Bill /var/log/messages showed: cardmgr[1994]: executing: 'modprobe -r wvlan_cs'

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-02 Thread Vern W Heesch
Any ideas? Something's strange with your system. My IBM ThinkPad's running a vanilla installation of OL 3.1 Workstation, and the only references I see to wvlan_cs in the /etc/pcmcia are commented out in the config.opts file, and a note in the wireless.opts file. There's no wvlan_cs module

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-01 Thread Keith Morse
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Vern W Heesch wrote: I am in need of help with setting up the WPC11 pcmcia card for my laptop. I have qwest DSL with a dynamic ip. The laptop is running OpenLinux 3.1. I tried to follow the step by step, but I must be missing something. After loading pcmcia-cs-3.1.30

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-01 Thread Dave Anselmi
Vern W Heesch wrote: I am in need of help with setting up the WPC11 pcmcia card for my laptop. I have qwest DSL with a dynamic ip. The laptop is running OpenLinux 3.1. I tried to follow the step by step, but I must be missing something. After loading pcmcia-cs-3.1.30 I now get power to the

Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-11-30 Thread Vern W Heesch
I am in need of help with setting up the WPC11 pcmcia card for my laptop. I have qwest DSL with a dynamic ip. The laptop is running OpenLinux 3.1. I tried to follow the step by step, but I must be missing something. After loading pcmcia-cs-3.1.30 I now get power to the card but no 'activity'