Re: Averatec 5500 Trying to set up SuSe 9.2

From: Unruh (unruh-spam_at_physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 06/08/05

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    Date: 8 Jun 2005 21:14:05 GMT

    rbehunin@alumni.weber.edu writes:

    First, when you are near the wireless access point do
    iwlist s
    to see if you see the wireless access point. If not, your system is almost
    certainly not working (eg you have not installed the correct driver for
    your wireless card. If you have a driver listed in /etc/modprobe.conf, look
    at
    dmesg|less
    to see if there is some error message.

    If iwlist sees it, then do
    iwconfig
    to see if the wireless is actually associated with something.

    Then I do not know whick OS you are using. Under Mandrake look for the file
    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
    or whatever your wireless port is calledi (the one in iwlist that lists
    wireless access points)
    See what is in there. How are you supposed to get the IP address? dhcp? Or
    some static address?

    .

    >hairy918@gmail.com wrote:
    >> http://rt2400.sourceforge.net/ works well. There's an app called
    >> RaConfig2500, some combination of running that and doing `dhclient ra0`
    >> usually works. I've had issues getting it to work well w/ WPA and even
    >> WEP.

    >I well, sort of went to Scotland in May. Had a nice vacation. The
    >laptop issue had to be put on hold for a while.

    >On the note of going to Scotland.... I dowloaded the new drivers for my
    >Konica Minolta 2300DL printer. They print nice. My Epson 1160 prints
    >the 13x19 prints nice out of linux expect they are off center on the
    >page.
    >Not very far off center, just enough to be annoying. It starts on the
    >edge on one side instead of leaving a 1/4 inch margin, and leaves a 3/8
    >inch margain on the bottom of the print, and leaves a 1/4 inch margin
    >on the other two sides. It prints fine, and a nice frame might cover
    >up the margins... just it was annoying. Now finding a 13x19 inch
    >frame... that is another story. (nobody has them)

    >WB rote:

    >>This WLAN card did not work with version 9.2.
    >>It was recognized by the system as a PCI device, but it never worked
    >>there.
    >>You can find RALINK drivers for LINUX at their website.
    >>Unfortunately I never tried to compile them.

    >>> I have tried the ad-hoc, managed and master settings. I have tried
    >>>on
    >>> DHCP, and with a static IP address.
    >>> ...
    >>> Any ideas on what to try next?

    >>What is the configuration of the hot spot?

    >This could be one of the problems. I am real new at the wireless
    >thing. This is a wireless router in my house. I had to configure he
    >wireless router myself, and the configure the laptop to work with the
    >wireless router. I manage to get it to work through trial and error in
    >windows.
    >I am not real sure how I have it configured. I might have to log into
    >it to see. (If I can remember how to do that... this is a whole new
    >thing here.)

    >I did try connecting to it when I had no security settings on it, and
    >that did not work either. (I had to reset it after a power outage
    >once.)

    >So I am sure part of this is I don't really know what I am doing with
    >configuring a wireless network. I took it over to my nieces house, and
    >her husband is a computer student at college. He could configure the
    >windows partition to work with his wireless network, but not the linux
    >system to work with his wireless network. We also had a couple of
    >other pcmcia cards we attemted this with, and none of them would work.

    >So, it is just something I am not doing correctly, I am sure. Linux
    >9.3 found the card fine. I am going to have to end up going to a linux
    >users group to get this figured out. I was going to go this past
    >Saturday, but I ended up having to go to a funeral. It seems there is
    >always something to keep me away from a LUG meeting.

    >roland

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