wireless configuration problem

From: Seth Galitzer (sgsax_at_ksu.edu)
Date: 12/18/03 

Date: 17 Dec 2003 15:00:41 -0800

Greetings,

I've been going around and around trying to get wireless networking
configured properly on my laptop. I'm using SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.4.23,
and a Cisco350 PCMCIA NIC. I have the airo and airo_cs (included with
kernel) drivers compiled and the card appears to be recognized and
installed properly upon insertion.

The AP I'm trying to authenticate to is WEP-enabled and I have entered
the WEP key is various places. So far, I have been unable to
authenticate to the AP. I am able to authenticate to the AP on the
same laptop in the same physical location under Windows, so the
problem is with my linux configuration somewhere.

I have noticed that iwconfig shows an eth1 device and a wifi0 device
upon inserting the card. My guess is that two different subsystems
are trying to
configure the card and are effectively "canceling eachother out".
>From what I can gather, the eth1 device is being "created" by the
pcmcia subsystem. I have yet to find what subsystem is creating the
wifi0 device.

I've set up wireless networking on a laptop in the past using debian,
so I kinda know what to look for. I've just started using SuSE, so I
may be missing something somewhere. I've tried using the YaST network
setup tools, the kwifimanager configuration tools, editing
/etc/pcmcia.opts and various scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network
directly, and still cannot get it to function properly. The only
progess I've made is to rename the
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia script (created by YaST) to
ifcfg-eth1, which now results in listing the NIC as eth1 from
ifconfig, but it still does not get an IP address.

I have read the SuSE howto on wirless networking setup, but have found
nothing useful there.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. I've got to be damn close here,
but am missing the SuSE trick to get it going.

Thanks.
Seth

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