Re: Failing to get wireless card working on Toshiba + Suse

From: Jeremy Russell (spam4me_at_jeremyrussell.co.uk)
Date: 09/05/05 

Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:08:49 +0100

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:51:22 -0700, PerfectReign
<theperfectreign@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Dude - just thought of something.
>
>Do you have Kinternet running in your system tray? If so what does it say?
>Are you connected. Also, do you have WEP? Can you connect with it off?
>
>Just curious.

I have had some success in getting connected; taking into account
several other enquiries/responses, I've disabled the Ethernet card in
this laptop under Linux. After this, I can ping my router/gateway and
also ping other W2K laptops connected to the network. I therefore
assume that the wireless card is being recognised.

However, I still can't display web pages with either Firefox or
Konqueror. Below are the results of running the commands "rcnetwork
status" and "iwconfig" - do these shed any light on what may be the
cause of my issues?

Yours in frustration,

JR

linux:~ # rcnetwork status
Checking optional network interfaces:
    eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB)
Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
    eth0 No configuration found for eth0
unused
    eth1 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
    eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:0e:35:60:b7:2b
    eth1 IP address: 192.168.0.4/24
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"RUSSELLNET" Nickname:"linux"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:0F:B5:BF:C0:AA
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-85
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:2

running
Checking mandatory network interfaces:
    lo
    lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
running
Checking service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
running
==============================================================================================
linux:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"RUSSELLNET" Nickname:"linux"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point:
00:0F:B5:BF:C0:AA
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=89/100 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-85
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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