DLink DWL-650 woes
steven ney
steven.ney at chello.at
Mon Mar 21 20:12:48 UTC 2005
Thanks for the advice!!!
I'm a tad embarrassed to say, but I don't seem to have iwconfig (nor
ifconfig) on my system. I have the GUI versions (system-config-networks)
but not the command line programmes
Thanks again
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:13 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> steven ney wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to get a PCI/PCMCIA D-Link DWL 650 (rev J3) card to work on
> > both my Fedora C3 desktop (PIII, 700MHz, 512M) and my Thinkpad X20. Both
> > machines recognise the card/ chipset (Intersil Prism II) but after
> > configuring the wlan connection (as an adhoc network), I can't activate
> > the wlan network on the desktop. What is more, the error message flashes
> > past so quickly that I can only make out it is allegedly not getting the
> > MAC number its expecting. (As you probably can tell, I'm a noob)
> >
> > I have looked through the fora and have not found anything on this card
> > and I would greatly appreciate any advice.
>
> I used to have one of those. Does iwconfig show the card? If so,
> then the problem has to do with the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file.
> There's no entry that matches the D-Link's MAC address.
>
> You can bypass that by using the iwconfig commands directly or by
> using system-config-network to set them up.
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