[lug] wireless lan problems

[Nate Duehr]

In the latest pcmcia stuff, I believe most wireless drivers are using
the new "wireless.opts" file.

I have a working config on another laptop (I'm on the wrong one right
now at the Internet Cafe! eeek.) that works perfectly under Debian.  If
RedHat's latest PCMCIA source has been changed to understand the new
files, I could post my config that does both WEP and DHCP properly with
the wvlan_cs driver and a Lucent WaveLan/Orinoco Gold card.

If someone's interested, I'll post it.

(I even helped someone else with it a while back and didn't want to
share my WEP secrets with them -- obviously -- so I have a file in my
home dir on the other laptop called wireless.opts.clean ... heh heh.)

I *did* have to rebuild PCMCIA to get the latest-and-greatest wvlan_cs
driver when I got it working though...

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:44:19PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:35:12PM -0700, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> >I tried this and found out that for some reason this network.opts file must
> >not be considered.  I tried all kinds of tricks and read the PCMCIA howto.
> 
> Hmm, ok...  I use it and it works quite nicely.  Well, at the moment I just
> have it firing off DHCP since I have that available on both home and work
> networks, but in the past I've set it up to pull various IPs based on the
> type of card that's inserted...
> 
> >At this point I have the card inserted, can't set the channel - but the card
> >reports that it found my access point (it lists the correct AP MAC
> >address).  But I still can't ping the AP.
> 
> I set up my AP with DHCP, and it just works.  Well, unless I try to do
> the WEP stuff.  Haven't gotten that working yet.
> 
> Sean
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