Re: Wireless PCI Card Setup

From: tim gorman (tgorman2_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:07:12 -0500

Alan Hughes wrote:

>
>
> JPB wrote:
>
>> Yet again, I need a bit of help:
>>
>> I have a couple of computers here, both running SuSE 9.1 Pro. Because of
>> the setup of our house here, I needed to place these away from a phone
>> socket, so thought I'd go wireless, rather than run wires for the LAN
>> all over the place.
>>
>> So, I now have a NetComm NB5580W ADSL modem/router, and a couple of
>> wireless NICs - the NetComm NP5420-802.11g. I picked those after asking
>> at this NG about which NIC would be suitable, and was told this model
>> definitely works with SuSE.
>>
>> The modem/router is now configured with a fixed LAN IP address setup,
>> because I want to run port forwarding behind a NAT. I've got a standard
>> ethernet card in one of these machines with an IP address of
>> 192.168.1.11, and this works fine - I can get on the Internet and
>> connect to the modem/router web interface. The wireless NIC has been
>> detected by Yast as "Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]" and is
>> configured with address 192.168.1.12. Of course, the DNS and gateway
>> settings are the same. I have not as yet set the encryption key, because
>> I want to get this to work first. The ESSID and the channel setting have
>> been input via the web interface into the router and are the same as
>> those in Yast.
>>
>> Now when I run iwconfig, this is what I get:
>>
>> jpb@amd:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
>> lo no wireless extensions.
>>
>> eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:"amd-toaster" Nickname:"amd"
>> Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>> Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=0/200
>> Retry min limit:0 RTS thr=0 B Fragment thr=0 B
>> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>>
>> eth1 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> vmnet8 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> vmnet1 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> Obviously, this leads nowhere. Now the question is: What next? I should
>> state here that the router is at this present time sitting on top of the
>> computer, so there is no issue with insufficient signal strength.
>>
>> If any of you guys have got this running, I'd appreciate pointers as to
>> what I should do to emulate your success. I haven't played with the
>> other computer yet, because I can't see how it would be any different to
>> this one, considering the hardware is the same.
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> John
> Use Yast to configure the card (IP address, etc).

Alan,

Your ifconfig readout would lead me to believe that the card is seeing the
router because it shows your link quality and signal levels as zero.

Are you sure everything is ok with the router? Do you perhaps know soneone
with a laptop and a wireless card who can check to see if your router is
actually accessible?

I'm also concerned that the eth0 entry shows no IP entry for the card. Have
you used yast to give the card an ip address?

Just for grins, what does a "netstat -rn" command give you?

tim gorman

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