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 ironed out... why not write up a detailed
> > step-by-step for the
> > rest of us to follow?
>
> Jerry,
> Sorry it took so long to respond. I got caught in the layoffs at work
and
> things have been rather hectic. I would have loved to write a
step-by-step
> for this, except that I can't seem to figure out how to get wep to work.
I
> could not get it to work with the orinoco module. I don't believe the
orinoco
> module is capable of this. I found in wireless.opts where it stated that
to
Bzzzzzt. Wrong answer. The orinoco module supports WEP. My silver cards
do 40 and 104 (Windoze can only figure out how to do 40, but I use 104
between my Linux boxes -- they drop back to 40 when a Windoze box tries to
talk to them).
> use encription requires the wvlan_cs module, but I had no luck getting
that
> to load either. I then tried linux-wlan-ng and could never get it to
work at
> all. At this point I reloaded the machine with a newer version of
caldera and
> haven't had the time to try linux-wlan-ng again. Right now I am running
the
> orinoco module with no wep...again. :(
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 s:mycryptokey
Now, any station not running WEP can't talk to you. Windoze stations will
run with "mycry".
If you're using an Orinoco card, I suggest you upgrade your kernel (to at
least 2.4.14), upgrade your wireless_tools (to at least
wireless_tools.22.tar.gz) and also your /usr/include/linux/wireless.h.
Caldera is hopelessly outdated in this arena.
After you get stuff running, try:
iwconfig eth# power on
iwspy eth# <IP_of_remote_system>
ping remote system
iwconfig eth#
you'll see some stats about how good your connection is. There's also a
graphical utility you can use which shows you your SNR (signal to noise
ratio).
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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