Guest lspowers Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 Hi all,, I think I got the PCMCIA 802.11b card configured properly, lights blink etc., but I need help setting up the network specs to help it communicate with the home network. After tweaking a little lastnight I brought the service up and checked the connection with mandrake monitor. It showed activity, so I tried to open a web page and still nothing.. no connection. I went to my primary desktop and thought I could check the wireless base station utility, which opens as am http page, to see if the laptop was logged in. It would not open..so I tried to open a web page.. again nothing. Went to a second computer on the netowrk and the same results, no connection to the net. I opened the My Network Connections folder and it now displayed an icon for network bridging, which I have never seen before. I shut down my laptop with Mandrake and in a few moments the network was back up. Good news,, the wireless card must be communicating with the wireless access point, bad news its not communicating the way I want it to. Short set-up summary Laptop: Set in Ad Hoc mode, DCHP, SSID any. Router: DCHP enabled, wireless enabled. (I used it before with Windows XP) What should I be looking at in order to configure this correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted October 27, 2004 Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 Hi there, when you type iwconfig what do you get? Does your AP have the facilty to allow/disallow MAC addresses & what about WEP. Maybe try & give it a static IP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted October 27, 2004 Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 Try setting up the Wireless card in a mode other than Ad-hoc. Ad-hoc is for Computer <--> computer connections, generally without internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 yup. post your ifcfg-wlan0 file which is in the /etc/sysconfig folder. try to setup static ip. i dn't use wep....most of the time you don't need it. also...pull your eth0 down in favor of your wlan0 (wireless). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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