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Old 07-09-2006, 12:14 PM   #1
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wireless driver installed....but now what?


I have suse 10.1 and I went to yast to install my wlan driver. It is a card from ATMEL and the dvd-cd from suse 10.1 already had my card's driver and installed it. Problem is now that I can't connect to my access point. I installed kwifi manager from yast also and it detects my access point. Problem is now that when i try to connect it says invalid wep encryption which is wierd since my system is open with no encryption at all. I even tried to put a wep password but i still cannot connect. I use a gnome desktop if that is a problem.

PLZ HELP!! Oh and another thing. When i close kwifi manager and open it up again I get an error message. I don't remember what it was exactly but it asks to check if some process is running. This only happens after I close kwifi manager and open it up again.

Side note...I tried ndiswrapper before installing the driver from yast and that was unsuccessful also because I didn't use the driver from the wiki page list. I did a quick google and I found a program called wifi-radar for gnome and im trying to get that to run. Maybe kwifi manager doesn't work because its kde maybe?
 
Old 07-09-2006, 08:42 PM   #2
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Old 07-10-2006, 02:16 AM   #3
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First, associate your wireless interface with your access point. Example
Code:
iwconfig eth0 essid "<your AP>"
Substitute the actual name of your access point for <your AP>. You may then need to start DHCPCD
Code:
dhcpcd eth0
If it's already running, then delete the existing PID file
Code:
rm /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid
Assuming that everything else is set up correctly, the above generally does the trick for me. Good luck with it. As an aside, this is a very common question and there are a lot of existing posts on it; check out some of them for other suggestions.
 
  


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