-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 November 2004 6:53 pm, Chuck Haines wrote:
Has anyone gotten a WPC11 ver 3 wireless card to work in suse 9.1? YaST detects the card, however I cannot get it to use WEP correctly and since both WPI and my home network require it, I'm outta luck right now. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
Chuck
HI Chuck, I am using an Orinoco Silver wireless card with SuSE 9.1 on my laptop. I am using WEP, so I hope my comments will be helpful even though my card is not the same as yours. First, is it feasible to temporarily turn off WEP on the card and on the home network and make your card work with your network that way? This will insure that you have the proper kernel modules installed, the card isn't broken, etc. Note that the range of this card is IMHO rather poor, so stay close to the wireless access point. When you configure the card via YaST, you should see your config info in the /etc/sysconfig/network directory. For my system, the file is ifcfg-wlan-bus-pcmcia. In that file, note that WIRELESS_KEY_n (0<=n<=3) should be equal to the null string for disabled WEP. I also have STARTMODE='hotplug' to ease my life. The WIRELESS_MODE is 'Ad-hoc'. There should be a value for WIRELESS_ESSID specific to your network. If that works (and please let me know if it does), then I was able to enable WEP by the following settings: WIRELESS_KEY_0="A1B2C3D4E5" where you would put the 5 hex bytes of your key between the double quotes. For some reason, I have WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128', but 5 hex bytes is only 40 bits, so go figure. I did have a WPC11 card at one time, and I could not get > 40 bit WEP to work at all. I don't know if this is (was) a 'feature' of the WPC11, some limitation of Linux, or my own ineptitude. - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBmVP2Hl0iXDssISsRAn6AAJ9lqNApXvHYtA4527Qep67ui02fkACfTh6m QK/YCIBHRc5VsSZ1tlFViY0= =fsBv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----