[wplug] CMU Wireless Network & Slackware 9.0

[Jonathan S. Billings]

I don't know if slackware has it, but what does 'iwconfig' say?  Also, 
an 'ifconfig' on the wireless interface would be helpful.


On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 21:23 America/New_York, Ryan W. Frenz 
wrote:

> 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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