Welcome to UNC! You should also know of the unclug list (check out listserv.unc.edu for more) which has recently started.
I recently got around to using my wireless on the UNC network too. I was uanble to do it at all with iwconfig, but got it working using the AUC utility from Cisco. I set the essid and key as you suggested, then did dhclient eth0 to get address information.
One simple question: have you registered your machine's MAC address for DHCP? If not, that would do it.
Also, try dhcping to diagnose where you are/aren't getting addresses from.
Finally: does the machine successfully attach to the network using wired ethernet?
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Dmitry Rashkeev wrote:
Hello,
I am a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a fairly avid linux user. At this
point, I have an IBM R40, the standard laptop sold by the university at
a discount to students. Needless to say, my first boot involved the
Mandrake installation disk. The computer adjusted extremely well to the
new OS. At this point, I dual boot between Windows and Linux, and things
could not get any happier. The only problem I have had so far was
getting the wireless driver to work. The card in the computer is a Cisco
Aironet 350, with a MiniPCI interface.
That's actually lists.ibiblio.org: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/unclug
A recent post to the UNC-Lug indicated this as a solution:
edit /etc/network/interfaces and add the two lines (with the key in the format noted):
wireless-essid UNC-1 wireless-key xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
I haven't tested that solution, though I can verify Andrew's success with the Cisco Client Utility: http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/
Wireless Software ---> Aironet Wireless Software Selector, etc.
peace, Jeff
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