fedora-list Digest, Vol 24, Issue 30

[Mark Thomas]

> On 2/3/06, Mark Thomas <thomamd at interlynx.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have a Ferrari 3400 Laptop and I am playing with FC5t2. I was delighted
>> to see that there was a driver for the wirekess device as I have never 
>> had a
>> Linux box connected to the Internet. I have a D-link-534 router in the 
>> house
>> which connects 3 Windows computers. I assumed that it would be easy to
>> connect the Linux computer to the router., but I am having problem and I
>> don't underatand why. I have tried a number of settings, but none will
>> activate. Here is the last setting I tried
>>
>> Addr.     DHCP
>> Mode:    Auto
>> SSID:    Enigma
>> Chan     5
>> Trans    1M
>> Key      0xnnnnnnnnnn
>>
>>     What am I doing wrong?
>>
Then Auther Pemberworote:
>
> you did say what tools you were using for the configuration.
>
> Here's the routine I follow on my own laptop, it isn't pretty, but it 
> works,
> my wireless interface is wlan0:
>
> iwlist wlan0 scan    # to ensure that it can see the AP
> iwconfig wlan0 essid "myssid"    # set interface to SSID
> ifconfig wlan0 up    # activate interface
> dhclient wlan0    # get dhcp info from AP
>
> That usually does it for me.
> -
    Your suggestion did not work. I was told it did not exist. Now I am 
using the Internet Connection Wizard. The driver I am using is the one found 
by FC5t2. After selecting the driver, I  entered information to give to the 
wireless. The wizard called the connection "eth1." (I did substitue eth1 for 
your wlan0 when trying your suggestion.) When I go to activate the 
connection (where is runs "ifup", I am told that it failed.

Mark