RE: [Sheflug] Wireless Networks

["James Mears" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It should not be this hard to get a network card to work.

Most of the related documents talk about not using the kernel related
pcmcia-cs but rather external modules version.

I am currently lost in the depths of trying to install pcmcia-cs form
source..... hmm this is getting tricky.

I imagine I will be bringing this stuff to the next meeting to let the
real boffins have a look.

James


-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
[mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Craig Andrews
Sent: 18 June 2002 02:26
To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Wireless Networks

Hullo,

Try this link:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

There is a specific bit about your card here:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.driv
ers.html#Prism2

Also, the Wireless HOWTO is available here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTO.html

HTH

Craig


On Saturday 15 Jun 2002 6:32 pm, James Mears wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just bought two SMC wireless 11Mb/s network cards.
> One is PCMCIA SMC2632 and the other is PCI SMC2602 (PCMCIA with a PCI
> card attached)
>
> Anyway
>
> I am running SUSE 8.0 and after a bit of hacking about I have got the
> card working (sort of) the laptop is showing the card as wlan0 when I
> "ifconfig" and the card has the address 192.168.1.25/24 and I can ping
> this address on the laptop.
>
> Cardinfo is showing the card as Intersil PRISM2 Reference Design
11Mb/s
> WLAN Card. The state is "ready" and it is showing on interrupt 3.
>
> I have taken the PCMCIA card out of the PCI adapter and have put this
in
> my win 2000 laptop and have given the card an address of
192.168.1.26/24
>
> The little lights are flashing on both cards (I assume this means they
> are working) but they cannot ping each other.
>
> I assume there are other things that I need to do to make the cards
> actually work.
>
> Does any body know what???
>
> On the win laptop there are all kinds of settings for "wep" and
> "Authentication Algorithm" and "Network Type" but how do I check the
> settings on the Linux laptop??
>
> Hope that somebody can help.
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
> -
>
> James [at] mearsonline.co.uk
>
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