Setting up connection with IPW 2200BG in Fedora Core 4
 

Hi! I'm a Linux newbee who recently installed Fedora C4 on an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro V2000.

Everything seems to work fine, exept that i can't set up a wireless connection to my Dlink 624.

SSID is broadcasted, Wlan secutrity is WEP whith shared key and 64-bits encryption with password in hex. The router is DHCP server.

I can't find settings for wep-settings in Fedora.

Can anyone help me?

Regards

Jan Busk

All the settings for a wireless interface should be available through the Network Configuration application, which is accessible in the KDE menu through System Settings -> Network. I'm assuming the wireless interface is eth1, but it might be something else. Just find the interface in the list whose type is listed as 'Wireless'. Select the correct one and click 'Edit'. The settings you need should be in the Wireless Settings tab.

Thanks for the answer!


I found theese settings but i can't find any way to set wep - open or shared. Am I missing something?

Regards Jan B

Well, this cannot be set through the Network Configuration application. On my system it seems to get set automatically when a connection is established with an access point. But if you want to do it manually, you can use iwconfig in a root terminal; ipwconfig eth1 key open, or ipwconfig eth1 key shared (Again, assuming that your wireless interface is eth1). It's a useful command in general ... recommend you do a man iwconfig in a root terminal to see what you can do with it.

What I would do first is turn off wep, wpa, and or any other security on the router and see if the card can connect. This eliminates many variables. Once that can be doen then start turning security settings back on.

Brian1

I tried to turn the encryption of with no result. The firewall is disabled. When i tried to type ipwconfig or iwconfig the system answers "unknown command".

What shall I do to make ipwconfig and iwconfig work?

I'm sorry, the command is iwconfig - I spelt it as ipwconfig at one point by mistake. This command only works if you have root privileges in the terminal - you need to be root in order play with it and many other commands.

To obtain root privileges, type su in the terminal, then provide the root password when prompted for it.

Ok. I'll do some more tests tomorrow.

I work as an computer technician in windows environment and fiddles with wlan-connections at least a couple of times per week. But in Linux environment I'm totally lost.

Thanks for your help so far. I hope i get the wlan up and running tomorrow.

Regards Jan Busk

Hi again!

Well, after some experementing with iwconfig I've reached the conclution that activating eth1 (IPW 2200BG) is not the same thing as starting the wlan-networkcard.

iwconfig eth1

Tells me than power is 0.....

I hav'nt the faintest idea what to do next. Any suggestions?



Thank You for bearing with a hopless newbee.....


Jan Busk

What do you have in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

Brian1

Hi Brian1!
Here is what I found in ifcfg-eth1:

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
GATAWAY=192.168.0.1
TYPE=wiereless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.0.1
IPADR=192.168.0.7
DOMAIN=
ESSID=Busk
CHANNEL=6
MODE=managed
RATE=auto


When i changed to dhcp-mode i saw an errormessage on actaviting. Set bitrate... Command not supported bye router. Maybe the fault lies here?


Regards

Jan Busk

eth1 file looks fine to me. If getting an error when set to dhcp then maybe the module for the card is not loaded. Thats about all I can think of for now.

Good luck
Brian1

Ok! But wat is a "module" and how do I check if its loaded? And maybe more important how do I load it?


Regards Jan Busk

What is your wireless card model and version?
Is it internal or a pcmcia card?

How about the output from the commands
lspci > this list pci hardware
lsmod > this list the modules loaded

Brian1