Wireless Questions

[Richard Burdette]

> >
> > Ok, well I've been able to get the light on the card to stay on;
> > however, I still am unable to get network up.  Here is what I did;
> >
> > From the network setup interface I removed all devices and all
> > hardware and rebooted.  When the system came back up the light on the
> > card was on and in the configuration gui there were no devices and
> > the only hardware seen was orinoco_cs.  I proceed to define a new
> > device using the found hardware but when I try to activate it fails
> > with a message stating "Cannot get driver information: Operation not
> > supported".
> >
> > I saved the configuration and checked the output from iwconfig and it
> > has the correct ESSID set from the gui and furthermore has the
> > correct MAC from my AP so I have properly associated, but when I
> > check ifconfig I don't have an Ethernet device. Something simple is
> > missing...
> >
> > Richard
> 
> Check your signal strength in /proc/net/wireless.  Is your AP encrypted?
> If do you have the correct key entered?
> 
> mw

Well, fooled around with the thing some more and it appears to be working
now.  Mike I think you had it with the encryption; I did not enter the key
with the proper hex coding.  Thanks guys.

Richard