[driverloader] Dell BCM4301 802.11b Driver on SuSE 9.0 NotWorking- License is running out..

[Charles Love]

So it looks like I now have a wireless IP but cant browse yet..

IWConfig Pulls Up:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"bigsur network"  Nickname:"bigsur
network"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457GHz  Access Point:
00:03:93:E8:9A:13
          Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power=14 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:1/1  Signal level:-29 dBm  Noise level:-89 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and IFConfig Pulls Up
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:80:C1:65
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fe80:c165/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:636421 (621.5 Kb)  TX bytes:2074 (2.0 Kb)


What should I try now?

--Charles


On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 11:20, Charles Love wrote:
> Support... Anything for me to try?
> 
> --Charles
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:28, Urs Mueller wrote:
> > Charles Love sagte:
> > > bah,, who knows.. Im half ready to go and get a external card. but
> > > really want to use the one i paid more for :)
> > 
> > My first card was a pcmcia D-Link DWL-G650, hungs always the machine
> > while ejecting (with the madwifi-drivers, not tested with driverloader).
> > Also risking to break the antenna, lesser rates because of smaller
> > antenna and other things. Internal cards are much better.
> > 
> > > i tried again from home and its a no go..
> > >>> On my home access point its called [esid] "My System" or "Spaz
> > >>> System" with a Key of "1212121212" or "6666666666"
> > 
> > So you changed the settings at home with yast to the above?
> > 
> > You may save the "office"-settings first:
> > cd /etc/sysconfig/network/
> > cp ifcfg-wlan0 ifcfg-wlan0.office
> > 
> > Then you change the card with yast to your home settings
> > (your essid, your key) and then
> > cp ifcfg-wlan0 ifcfg-wlan0.home
> > 
> > Before you halt your system to use it at the other place, you
> > copy the apropriate ifcfg-wlan.* to ifcfg-wlan0.
> > 
> > You may also study the administration guide of your SuSE 9.
> > There is a chapter 8 about SCPM System configuration Profile
> > Management.
> > 
> > Hmm I like Linux, but the IBM configuration Tool for my
> > miniPCI-Card under Windows XP is really a nice thing.
> > Maybe someone writes a similar piece for Linux.
> > 
> > Bye, Urs
> > 
> > 
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