Originally Posted by tcaptain

I read through the thread and I have a few questions to ask...

Is your 401 still loading up ok as wlan0?

Why is your prismII module loading? (I only have orinoco_ps that I noticed)

Did you edit the following file:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 with the appropriate values?

I don't have any experience with RH9 tho, so the above might not help you.

Here's what I had done:

1 - first day while setting up I made sure my AP is broadcasting my SSID and there's NO encryption involved, no filtering of any kind (ie: wide-open network).
2 - Then in Mandrake, I made sure that my kernel was compiled with the wireless options needed (I had done this a few days previously...but this seems to be the step people forget).
3 - Then I popped out my PCMCIA 3com NIC and popped in the MA401...at which point I was VERY pleasantly surprised to see it recognized immediately and the orinoco_ps module loaded.
(NOTE: My MA401 was loaded at ETH0 and NOT as wlan0...I don't know why and I haven't poked around to change it, adopting a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude for now)

At this point, things worked fine....BUT....now I needed to tighten things up...

4 - On the AP, I turned on MAC filtering, and 128 bit encryption and picked a long key. I also turned off SSID broadcasting.

5 - Editted the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and added settings like the SSID and key of my network.

Did a /etc/init.d/network restart and boom, I was wireless and up and running again.