wireless linux help

ruiner_066

OSNN Addict
Joined
11 Mar 2003
Messages
77
im running SuSE 9.0 on a dell inspiron 600m, which has an internal Intel® Pro Wireless 2100 (802.11b) miniPCI card. intel doesnt give any linux drivers for this, but i found a program Linuxant DriverLoader that can use the windows driver to make it work in linux. i got this all set up and linux now recognizes the device, but i cant get it to connect. the ip is correctly assigned to it, and the router even shows that its connected, but i cant ping anything else on the network, or do anything else. in the bootup this is what it shows under the network section:

"Setting up network interfaces:
lo done
eth0 (DHCP)...no IP address yet...backgrounding done
wlan0 warning:using NO encryption
ERROR: command 'iwconfig wlan0 mode Automatic' returned
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06):
SET failed on device wlan0 ; invalid argument.
(DHCP) IP/Netmask: 192.168.0.5 / 255.255.255.0 done"

heres ifconfig wlan0:
"wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:A1:2A:9E
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::204:23ff:fea1:2a9e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:9767 (9.5 Kb) TX bytes:938 (938.0 b)"


and heres iwconfig wlan0:
"wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Bryan" Nickname:"linux"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:9B:22:7E
Bit Rate=11Mb/s
RTS thr=1600 B Fragment thr=2344 B
Encryption key😱ff
Power Management😱ff
Link Quality:1/1 Signal level:-32 dBm Noise level:-200 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0"


does anyone know of what i could try here? thanks in advance
 

Members online

No members online now.

Latest profile posts

Also Hi EP and people. I found this place again while looking through a oooollllllldddd backup. I have filled over 10TB and was looking at my collection of antiques. Any bids on the 500Mhz Win 95 fix?
Any of the SP crew still out there?
Xie wrote on Electronic Punk's profile.
Impressed you have kept this alive this long EP! So many sites have come and gone. 🙁

Just did some crude math and I apparently joined almost 18yrs ago, how is that possible???
hello peeps... is been some time since i last came here.
Electronic Punk wrote on Sazar's profile.
Rest in peace my friend, been trying to find you and finally did in the worst way imaginable.

Forum statistics

Threads
62,016
Messages
673,499
Members
5,627
Latest member
Setups
Back