Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:57 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in connecting to Internet. My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresponding fields as: s:xx. Are you **sure** it is an ASCII string that just happens to be numbers. Or could it be a Hex number which just happens not to include any digit larger than 9 ? Try again giving it in the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx The modem-router assigns the directions IP, so I never unchecked the DHCP box. I also know my ESSID: 2wire806. I suppose here I do not have to be careful with capitals or lower case letters. Keep the capitalisation the same as in Windows I will try in a moment to write an IP address from the pool in the router, and see if I can connect. I think I followed your instructions carefully. Maybe I am doing something silly. Teilhard. Also what do you see if you enter iwconfig and ifconfig in a root terminal? It may be the link is working but your default route is set to use a fixed ethernet. (Post us the result from a 'route' command ) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 1:57 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in connecting to Internet. My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresponding fields as: s:xx. Are you **sure** it is an ASCII string that just happens to be numbers. Or could it be a Hex number which just happens not to include any digit larger than 9 ? Try again giving it in the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I have tried it already. No connection either. The modem-router assigns the directions IP, so I never unchecked the DHCP box. I also know my ESSID: 2wire806. I suppose here I do not have to be careful with capitals or lower case letters. Keep the capitalisation the same as in Windows OK. I will try in a moment to write an IP address from the pool in the router, and see if I can connect. I think I followed your instructions carefully. Maybe I am doing something silly. Teilhard. Also what do you see if you enter iwconfig and ifconfig in a root terminal? It may be the link is working but your default route is set to use a fixed ethernet. (Post us the result from a 'route' command ) I'll do that in a minute, thanks. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the desk in front of me in a regular room) wireless router. I have the drivers to make the USB device which receives, and although the installer looks for a file that doesn't find, I get the message setup ok when I run the installer. But I do not know how to put the driver to work. If I go to the Mandrake Control Centre and I try to configure a LAN connection, the driver does not show up among the ones I can use, so I do not know what to do, except configuring the relevant PPPoE configuration files by hand. But besides I do not know which they are, I do not even know how my driver is called. Also, if things are like in Windows, I have to feed somehow a ten digits number to the configuration. Can you help? Well if you tell us what the wireless hardware is and which driver you are trying to use we could help. But you haven't So we can't. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the desk in front of me in a regular room) wireless router. I have the drivers to make the USB device which receives, and although the installer looks for a file that doesn't find, I get the message setup ok when I run the installer. But I do not know how to put the driver to work. If I go to the Mandrake Control Centre and I try to configure a LAN connection, the driver does not show up among the ones I can use, so I do not know what to do, except configuring the relevant PPPoE configuration files by hand. But besides I do not know which they are, I do not even know how my driver is called. Also, if things are like in Windows, I have to feed somehow a ten digits number to the configuration. Can you help? Well if you tell us what the wireless hardware is and which driver you are trying to use we could help. But you haven't So we can't. Oh, sorry about that, I just thought any wireless configuration was the same. The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Everything works all right in WinXP. If you need any other info, I'll gladly supply it. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial So the card you are trying to get working is the 2Wire WiFi PCMCIA card.? The manufacturers web site does not give any details about the chip set used, but the picture looks like an Orinoco card. If it is, then setting it up in Mandrake is easy. First make sure you have the wireless-tools RPM loaded using Mandrake Software Manager. Also make sure the pcmcia-cs RPM is installed (it should have been installed by default) When you insert the card do you hear two 'beeps' from the speaker? Are they the same tone or different tones? When you then open Mandrake Control CentreNetworking does it list the wireless interface in the box with a driver name? When you go through the wizard does it say it has discovered a card? And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? If you do not see these things then open a console, enter su to become root and enter cardctl ident and post the results to us. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, and Mandrake 9.1 should recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least... Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial So the card you are trying to get working is the 2Wire WiFi PCMCIA card.? The manufacturers web site does not give any details about the chip set used, but the picture looks like an Orinoco card. If it is, then setting it up in Mandrake is easy. First make sure you have the wireless-tools RPM loaded using Mandrake Software Manager. Also make sure the pcmcia-cs RPM is installed (it should have been installed by default) When you insert the card do you hear two 'beeps' from the speaker? Are they the same tone or different tones? When you then open Mandrake Control CentreNetworking does it list the wireless interface in the box with a driver name? When you go through the wizard does it say it has discovered a card? And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? If you do not see these things then open a console, enter su to become root and enter cardctl ident and post the results to us. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial So the card you are trying to get working is the 2Wire WiFi PCMCIA card.? The manufacturers web site does not give any details about the chip set used, but the picture looks like an Orinoco card. If it is, then setting it up in Mandrake is easy. First make sure you have the wireless-tools RPM loaded using Mandrake Software Manager. Also make sure the pcmcia-cs RPM is installed (it should have been installed by default) When you insert the card do you hear two 'beeps' from the speaker? Are they the same tone or different tones? When you then open Mandrake Control CentreNetworking does it list the wireless interface in the box with a driver name? When you go through the wizard does it say it has discovered a card? And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? If you do not see these things then open a console, enter su to become root and enter cardctl ident and post the results to us. Thanks very much, I am sorry I wasn't clear about what card I want to get working. Actually I intended to get going the SMC external USB adapter in a desktop machine. But what you tell me will help me to configure the 2Wire card in the laptop. Actually in fact I need the wireless network in both the desktop computer (with the SMC adapter), and the laptop (with the 2Wire PCMCIA card). I'll do what you instruct me and I'll get back to you. If you have some advise about the SMC adapter, it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, an Mandrake 9.1 should recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least... Thank you. I'll try to get going the PCMCIA card in the laptop, but if you have some advise for the SMC USB adapter it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 7:24 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, an Mandrake 9.1 should recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least... Thank you. I'll try to get going the PCMCIA card in the laptop, but if you have some advise for the SMC USB adapter it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial The SMC2662W uses the atmel chip set. There is a driver for that in Mandrake 9.1 The atmelwlandriver, but I find it quite unreliable and not that easy to set up. There is an alternative driver at76c503a which works a lot better. There are instructions on how to compile it on my web site http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=17 You may need to add the SMC device to the list of supported devices. My page describes how to do that. Also do not forget to install the kernel-source RPM which matches the kernel you are using. The only other thing you need is the gcc compiler RPM. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 5:06 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 1:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the The modem-router is a 2Wire which on the back it says Home Portal 1000SW (Provided by ISP) The home portal is connected to one computer through an Ethernet card, and to another (wireless) to a SMC receiver which is the (USB) SMC2662W, and to a laptop with a (wireless) PCMCIA card 2Wire WiFi, apparently the only model there is from 2Wire. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial So the card you are trying to get working is the 2Wire WiFi PCMCIA card.? The manufacturers web site does not give any details about the chip set used, but the picture looks like an Orinoco card. If it is, then setting it up in Mandrake is easy. First make sure you have the wireless-tools RPM loaded using Mandrake Software I installed the wireless-tools(some version).mdk Manager. Also make sure the pcmcia-cs RPM is installed (it should have been installed by default) I installed the pcmcia-cs(some version).mdk When you insert the card do you hear two 'beeps' from the speaker? Are they the same tone or different tones? I inserted the card before booting. When you then open Mandrake Control CentreNetworking does it list the wireless interface in the box with a driver name? Yes, etho1, with driver orinoco_cs When you go through the wizard does it say it has discovered a card? Yes And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? Yes, I do not know what to write in those parameters. I cannot write anything in the field for the IP address, not in the one for subnet mask. If you do not see these things then open a console, enter su to become root and enter cardctl ident and post the results to us. I didn't have to. If you just tell me what to write in the fields above, I think I am done with the laptop. Thanks. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 7:24 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: The 2Wire cards are, in fact, Orinoco cards, an Mandrake 9.1 should recognize it natively...it did with mine at the very least... Thank you. I'll try to get going the PCMCIA card in the laptop, but if you have some advise for the SMC USB adapter it will be greatly appreciated. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial The SMC2662W uses the atmel chip set. There is a driver for that in Mandrake 9.1 The atmelwlandriver, but I find it quite unreliable and not that easy to set up. There is an alternative driver at76c503a which works a lot better. There are instructions on how to compile it on my web site http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=17 You may need to add the SMC device to the list of supported devices. My page describes how to do that. Also do not forget to install the kernel-source RPM which matches the kernel you are using. The only other thing you need is the gcc compiler RPM. Thank you Derek. I am a bit confused. SMC has a driver for Linux. I already installed it, and although in the installation some kind of file is not found, I get the confirmation: setup ok in the end. What I do not know is what to do with the driver or how to configure it. Do you think that I should use the driver at76c503a? I do not get the adapter detected as in the laptop. Thanks for taking the time to help me. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? Yes, I do not know what to write in those parameters. I cannot write anything in the field for the IP address, not in the one for subnet mask. Teilhard In the GUI enter the ESSID to be the same as your Windows Config. It might be called a different name in Windows. Basically this us the name of the wireless network. If you do not know how to set it, leave it as any Enter MODE=Managed Enter the RATE=11M Enter the Encryption key - This *must* be the same as in Windows If your Windows key is an Ascii string then prefix it with s: As in s:my_key If your Key is a Hex number then enter it as AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF You can leave the other parameters blank. If you get your IP address via DHCP from your wireless router then leave the dhcp box ticked. If not untick it and enter an IP address. When you exit the wizard with 'Finish' the light on the wireless card will light and the interface will start working. (If you got that encryption key right) Do *NOT* press OK to exit the drakconnect GUI A bug will cause you to lose the config you just made.(Bug 1881- Still not fixed in 9.2) Instead exit with 'Cancel' derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:43 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP Thank you Derek. I am a bit confused. SMC has a driver for Linux. I already installed it, and although in the installation some kind of file is not found, I get the confirmation: setup ok in the end. What I do not know is what to do with the driver or how to configure it. Do you think that I should use the driver at76c503a? I do not get the adapter detected as in the laptop. Thanks for taking the time to help me. Teilhard. This table (http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/atmeldrv/usbtable.html ) reports that SMC has a driver for that device, but I have no experience of using it. You might find it works fine. The big issue is 'has SMC configured their driver to be usb hotpluggable?' Does the driver load when you plug in the device? You might have to enter modprobe driver_name before you can use it. If that modprobe works then you could try configuring the interface with iwconfig. If you are not confortable with compiling a driver you could give the atmelwlandriver built into Mandrake 9.1 a try. The problem I found with that driver is it does not like some types of usb interfaces much, and usually only works from a cold power up. It gets screwed up if you pull the usb cable in and out. There is a config file for the atmelwlandriver at /root/.vnetrc or you can try setting it up by hand using iwconfig You can check if a driver is getting loaded when you plug in the device by looking at the system log tail -n 50 /var/log/syslog in a root terminal will display the last 50 lines of the system log. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Interet
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:16 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: SNIP And does it then present you with a list of wireless parameters for you to fill in? Yes, I do not know what to write in those parameters. I cannot write anything in the field for the IP address, not in the one for subnet mask. Teilhard In the GUI enter the ESSID to be the same as your Windows Config. It might be called a different name in Windows. Basically this us the name of the wireless network. If you do not know how to set it, leave it as any Enter MODE=Managed Enter the RATE=11M Enter the Encryption key - This *must* be the same as in Windows If your Windows key is an Ascii string then prefix it with s: As in s:my_key If your Key is a Hex number then enter it as AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF You can leave the other parameters blank. If you get your IP address via DHCP from your wireless router then leave the dhcp box ticked. If not untick it and enter an IP address. When you exit the wizard with 'Finish' the light on the wireless card will light and the interface will start working. (If you got that encryption key right) Do *NOT* press OK to exit the drakconnect GUI A bug will cause you to lose the config you just made.(Bug 1881- Still not fixed in 9.2) Instead exit with 'Cancel' derek Huff, Derek, I don't know what I am doing wrong because I do not succeed in connecting to Internet. My encryption key is a ten digit number, so I wrote in the corresponding fields as: s:xx. The modem-router assigns the directions IP, so I never unchecked the DHCP box. I also know my ESSID: 2wire806. I suppose here I do not have to be careful with capitals or lower case letters. I will try in a moment to write an IP address from the pool in the router, and see if I can connect. I think I followed your instructions carefully. Maybe I am doing something silly. Teilhard. -- ÄùñåÜí e-mail, http://www.fastmail.gr (POP3/IMAP/18 MB ÷þñï) Free e-mail, http://www.fastmail.gr (POP3/IMAP/18MB of space) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless Interet
Hi there. I am trying to configure a wireless connection with a remote (just the desk in front of me in a regular room) wireless router. I have the drivers to make the USB device which receives, and although the installer looks for a file that doesn't find, I get the message setup ok when I run the installer. But I do not know how to put the driver to work. If I go to the Mandrake Control Centre and I try to configure a LAN connection, the driver does not show up among the ones I can use, so I do not know what to do, except configuring the relevant PPPoE configuration files by hand. But besides I do not know which they are, I do not even know how my driver is called. Also, if things are like in Windows, I have to feed somehow a ten digits number to the configuration. Can you help? -- Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
