Issues configuring wireless card- laptop

[Rick Stevens]

Appeet wrote:
> Summary : I see good signal strength in KWifiManager
> but unable to browse intranet / internet.
> 
> I have a dell inspiron 700m. I downloaded the firmware
> and driver for my laptop and installed. I could see
> the signal strength (noise/signal ratio) and all other
> networks when I access via KWifiManager.
> 
> The driver and firmware details are as follows :
> 
> ipw2200-1.0.0.tgz
> ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz
> 
> 
> 
> My wireless card (internal)details are as follows :
> 
> Network controller : Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless
> 
> But I am unable to browse my wireless network (even
> though wifi manager says good strength)
> 
> When I try to do system-config-network I get the
> following error / warning. What am I possibly doing
> wrong ?
> 
> Warning: Device eth1 has been comiled with version 17
> of wireless extension, while we are using version 16.
> Some things may be broken...
> 
> 
> I configured my wep key on the network configuration
> manager by selecting the profile and editing it and
> going into wireless settings (of wireless device
> configuration)
> 
> 
> Appreciate any help to resolve this issue.

I've seen similar issues.  Occasionally the WEP key, mode, or channel
doesn't get set properly on the cards when that stuff is buried in the
ifcfg-wlanX file.  The order in which things get set are important.

The "iwconfig" command should be used to see what's what.  Run it as
the root user and verify that the mode, ESSID, WEP key, and channel are
set properly.  I've noticed that on occasion, I have to:

	iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
	iwconfig wlan0 channel x (put yours here)
	iwconfig wlan essid MyESSID mode Managed key s:mykeyinascii

to get it to work.
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