----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2
> SNIP > > > > When you type iwconfig and see eth0 appear that tells me that the > > atmelwlandriver has been loaded. (It uses eth0 by default) If the > > at76c503c driver was loaded the device would be called wlan0 > > > > Follow the advice in my workaround and it will work. > > All you have to do is move the folder > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-xxmdk/kernel/3rdparty/atmelwlan > > > > (where xx is the version of kernel you are using) > > to somewhere outside the /lib folder and the atmelwlandriver will no > > longer load. > > > > derek > > Actually I just realised there is an even easier way of forcing hotplug to > install the at76c503c driver instead of the atmelwlandriver. > All you have to do is put the names of the atmelwlandriver in > /etc/hotplug/blacklist > > Just inserting > usbvnet_rfmd > usbvnet_r505_2958 > > should do the trick. > You still have to define the configuration file by hand > (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ) since draknet will not > recognise the interface Thanks a lot, Derek. It seems everything is set now. I still do not get into Internet, though. First, as you said, iwconfig gives: &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"2WIRE193" Nickname:"castillo.nuthouse.nut" Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:0D:72:17:AA:E9 Bit Rate=11Mb/s RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B Encryption key:9442-9454-75 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:100 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I wrote the two lines you mention in "blacklist. I guess the problem is in my ifcfg-wlan0 file. I worte it as: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.34 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.1 ONBOOT=yes KEY=94:42:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Note that the line giving the value of BROADCAST is absent, I simply could not figure out what to put there. Only thing to mention is that my wireless modem is a router too. I then wrote everything as if the adaptor "saw" an static configuration. Although the "external" IP may vary (dynamic account), the internal IP's are always the same. For NETWORK, I wrote the router address, and also for NETMASK, the router NETMASK, the IPADDR is the "internal" one. For the WIRELESS_MODE, I would have written: "infrastructure", but in your web example you select "managed", so, perhaps it is not what I am thinking. Thanks so much for helping me with this. Teilhard.
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