[wplug] CMU Wireless Network & Slackware 9.0
Ryan W. Frenz
rfrenz at stargate.net
Thu Oct 16 21:23:47 EDT 2003
I got my Slackware booting up nicely on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100),
got it to see my pcmcia wireless card (Belkin 11Mb), installed the
drivers, etc. However, I'm having trouble getting any connect to CMU's
wireless network. My relevant config files are as follows:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 :
IPADDR=""
NETMASK=""
USE_DHCP=yes
DHCP_HOSTNAME=""
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts
IF_PORT=""
BOOTP="n"
DHCP="y"
DHCP_HOSTNAME=""
IPADDR=""
NETMASK=""
NETWORK=""
etc.
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
INFO="HoC"
ESSID="CMU"
MODE="Managed"
KEY=""
RATE="11M"
CHANNEL="6"
Does anyone know what I need to modify to connect to CMU? Any help
would be greatly appreciated. In Windows you just set it to DHCP and
go. I'm trying to do the same here, but obviously something's wrong.
Also, when I run iwconfig on the card, I get the following:
...
Link Quality:40 Signal Level: 97 Noise Level: 0
...
it looks like I'm getting a signal, but I can't ping or do anything else!
Ryan
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