Devryn

What do I need to change? The line that says IPADDR= ?

If so do I change it to the routers IP or one that the router would assign?

Actually using Fedora. Like I said, the card works, sorta. If I do iwlist scanning it sees the router. When I ifdown eth0 then ifup eth0 it fails to get an IP for some reason.

iwlist scanning sees the router and it's MAC address and everything. I just don't get it.

O.K. I got linuxant working...Sorta. Linux recognizes the card but will not connect to the router. If I do iwlist scanning it sees the router and it's MAC address. What's up with this thing?

The config file.

# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt

# for the documentation of these parameters.

ONBOOT=yes

USERCTL=no

PEERDNS=yes

GATEWAY=

TYPE=Wireless

DHCP_HOSTNAME=

IPADDR=

DEVICE=eth0

HWADDR=00:09:5b:98:c1:0f

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

DOMAIN=

NETMASK=

ESSID=DevrynSG

CHANNEL=6

MODE=Managed

RATE=108Mb/s

Router Status (if that helps)

Router Status

 

Account Name DevrynSG

Hardware Version V2

Firmware Version  Version 4.0.4 Feb 13 2004

 

Internet Port 

MAC Address  00:09:5B:C2:84:D5

IP Address  24.160.13.125

DHCP  DHCPClient

IP Subnet Mask  255.255.252.0

Domain Name Server

24.26.193.63

24.93.40.68

 

 

LAN Port

MAC Address  00:09:5B:C2:84:D4

IP Address  192.168.0.1

DHCP  ON

IP Subnet Mask  255.255.255.0

 

Wireless Port 

Name (SSID) DevrynSG

Region United States

Channel 6

Mode b/g/108Mbps

Wireless AP ON

Broadcast Name ON

I have a Netgear WG511T PCMCIA wireless adapter. I installed the madwifi RPM package that's available for Fedora Core 1 (my Linux distro). So I ran the package...It installed I guess and went back to the desktop. Now what? It still doesn't work.

Please remember I know NOTHING about Linux at this point.

For the previous two years, I have travelled North America implementing new systems for my employer.  I visited 64 locations and setup 192 Dell Servers and 32,000 (give or take) Dell workstations.  Of all of these, 1 server failed and was replaced by Dell within 24 hours and 3 workstations, also replaced within 24 hours.  I had a RAID card die in one server and tech support would not have been able to get one too me within 12 hours as I needed.  A support rep actually had the part in their office, so they hopped on a plane and hand delivered it to me.

 

I have heard stories from some people that Dell support has become fairly poor, and I have also heard that it is still great.  I do know that when they opened the call center in India (or somewhere over there) that there had been issues as a result of the language barrier. 

 

Overall, my experience with Dell (I personally have 14 Dell Workstations), has been great.

Business is a completely different topic when you're referring to Dell. All business support is handled stateside. All joe schmoe support is handled somewhere in Asia. BS!

Dell is complete crap. There customer support is aweful, their systems (especially laptops) suck.

Brief history: Only computer I've ever purchased and not built myself is my Dell laptop.

2 hard drive failures

3 memory failures

1 motherboard failure

Last one took 3 MONTHS to get my laptop back. The actually lost it...Yes...LOST. Told me I'd get a completely new one...They lied. I e-mailed michael_dell@dell.com and got a response from one of his ENGLISH speaking assistants (the tech support people don't speak english and their favorite phrase is "I understand your frustration sir."

O.K. So I installed MadWiFi...Now what?

My 10/100 port is there, my wireless PCMCIA card is not.

I should have mentioned I installed Linuxant, but I can't figure out how to use it. It didn't add any application shortcuts anywhere...

I just setup my Dell Inspiron 2650 to dual boot Fedora Linux and WinXP Pro. I'm awesome with Windows, but I know jack shyte about Linux. I'm trying to get my wireless card, a Netgear WG511T, to work in Linux. Can someone walk me through this process?

Devryn