noob to linux wireless question

DeadPenguin · 05-21-2005, 12:22 AM

I am having a hard time getting my internal dell trumobile wireless card working with Suse 9.2. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600m. The card is a Dell Trumobile 1400 mini dual wlan card.

I have followed the tutorial for setting up ndiswrapper.
My problem is that I do not use wireless at home.
I use it at work to tie into the company Lan, and at my friends house to play ut2004.
I have not had problems linking with same card in XPlode to my work or my friends AP's.
With windows the AP is there I click a button and it's connected.

I ran - iwlist wlan0 scanning at my friends house and it spit out this.

wlan0 scan completed
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:50:38:6C:31 (Belkin AP)
ESSID: "Batman"
Protocol: IEEE 802.11b
Mode: Managed
Frequency: 2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality: 0/100 Signal level: -46 dBm Noise Level: -256 dBm
Encryption key off
Bit Rate: 1Mb/s
Bit Rate: 2Mb/s
Bit Rate: 5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 11Mb/s
Bit Rate: 18Mb/s
Bit Rate: 24Mb/s
Bit Rate: 36Mb/s
Bit Rate: 54Mb/s
Bit Rate: 62Mb/s
Bit Rate: 55.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 14.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 59.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 62Mb/s
Bit Rate: 55.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 14.5Mb/s
Bit Rate: 59.5Mb/s
Extra: bcn_int=100
(I had to type this because I can not connect the laptop from home.)
I am still putting off working on the winmodem setup.

Now my question is - With the information above what are the steps to connect to this AP?

I did:
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid Batman
ifup wlan0
I pinged google.com and it gave me an error message.

Any help is appreciated.

Again, I am a

to this.
I apologize if the answer to this is already posted here. If so I missed it.
Any good wireless tutorial would be helpful also.
Thanks,
Blair

dcdbutler · 05-21-2005, 03:13 PM

Check the output of iwconfig to see if it's picking up the essid and mode parameters correctly. If it's not try putting them in again. I find that often iwconfig does not pick up my essid correctly at first try.
Once your connection is configured correctly, you could try;

# dhcpcd wlan0
or
# dhclient wlan0
depending on which you have installed and assuming that you use dhcp to connect.

post the output of iwconfig if you have any probs

Cheers

DeadPenguin · 05-22-2005, 12:19 PM

Thanks.
I will post back tonight how I make out.

Blair