Dell Truemobile 1150 Series PC Card (v01.01), RedHat Linux 9

[Nick Silberstein]

Hello,

I have a Dell Inspiron 2650 with a Truemobile 1150 PC Card
being used with a Siemens/Efficient Networks SpeedStream
2524 Wireless/Powerline/Ethernet router.

This combination works great with RedHat Linux 8.  However,
I recently installed RedHat Linux 9 and experienced
problems with wireless networking.

I configured wireless networking in RHL 9 identically to
RHL 8 (Using RedHat's "neat" network configuration
utility), and the client does receive an IP and can (sort
of) access some websites.  

For example, I tried to access a few websites after
configuring the wireless card and got very mixed results. 
If I tried to access www.news.com in Mozilla, the site
would mostly load (except for some graphics / ads which
normally load fine).  However, news.bbc.co.uk would not
come up at all, and neither would slashdot.org.  These same
sites load quickly and completely under RHL 8.  

The status bar of Mozilla shows that the ip address of the
website resolves, but the page never loads. Using ping to
query remote sites does work fine.  RedHat's up2date tool
would not work (rhn_register was failing to send in the
system info during the registration process, simply hanging
on the part where it sends the system data to the remote
server).

I could find no errors in /var/log/messages,
/var/log/secure, dmesg, etc. /sbin/lsmod showed all of the
modules I expected to be listed (orinoco_cs, hermes, etc).

Other computers on my network (connected to the Siemens
router with wires to the LAN ports, rather than 802.11b)
have no problems (accessing the problem websites with
aplomb).  After re-installing RHL 8, all network problems
are gone, and all the websites which would not load under
RHL 9 now load fine.

There is a built-in 10/100 network port in the laptop
(eth0), but no network cable is plugged in, so the network
script fails to start networking on eth0 at boot time on
both RHL 8 & 9.  The wireless card is configured as eth1. I
have WEP (128 bit) enabled on the router, the mode is set
to "Managed", and the key was entered in neat in hex style
(RHL 9 insisted on having a 0x placed in front of the key,
whereas my RHL 8 config does not have a 0x in front of the
key). RHL 9 was installed cleanly, I did not choose to
upgrade the RHL 8 installation.

Has anyone experienced similar problems?

Thanks very much, and please let me know if any additional
info is needed to diagnose the problem.

Nick



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Nick Silberstein
Email: nhsilber at yahoo.com

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