!fun setting up wireless at home
Mehmet
mehmety at optushome.com.au
Sun Nov 4 22:58:00 EST 2001
Hi, I'm trying to set up wireless networking at home but am lost.... I have a
Toshiba 4600 notebook with a wireless card (prism2 type I think), I went and
got a d-link DWL-500 pci-pcmcia card with DWL-650 pcmcia card.
Sytem details are: Notebook has Mandrake 8.1 with kernel 2.4.13,
pcmcia-cs-3.1.29. The card is being detected as wvlan_cs, no errors are
reported (tried the orinoco_cs driver too) comes up as eth1 (? not wlan0 ?).
iwconfig gives:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"home" Nickname:"mehmet"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.422GHz Cell: 02:02:2D:23:91:FE
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-102 dBm Noise level:-102 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
The pc has RH 7.2, kernel 2.4.7, using kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27
The wvlan_cs module gave errors but orinoco_cs loads with no errors
iwconfig gives:
eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"home" Nickname: "box"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.442GHz Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
ofcourse, it don't work.
I used ifconfig to set up the network details, also put the details in
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts just in case.... each can ping itself but can't see
each other.
What do I need to do to get this to work? -oh yes, using yenta-socket on both.
Regards, Mehmet
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