i got an ibm thinkpad 240x and linux suse 8.2 on it!
my wlan device is an belkin 54g pcmcia (F5D7010)

i downloaded the linuxant driverloader 1.25 from www linuxant com


i installed the rpm package as i is thought by their howto install the problem is: that the lan seems to work
because if i set the ESSID on my laptop to "linux-wlan"
i can see them on my windows system but i cannot see any wlan on my laptop
and therefore i cannot connect to any other pc
i also cannot ping anyone


if i type "iwconfig" it says:

lo no wireless extension
sit0 no wireless extension
eth0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Linux-Ibm-wlan"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power=10 dBm
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
Power Managmentff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon

sometimes is tells me the real Essid i had entered (Wlan-home)

if i type iwlist scanning then it shows:

lo Interface doesn`t support scanning: Operation not supported
sit0 Interface doesn`t support scanning: Invalid argument
eth0 Scan completed:
Cell 01 - Address: AE:70:76:84:EE:0B (which is the essid of my windows computer - i think)
Essid:"Wlan-home"
Mode:Auto
Frequency:2,462Ghz
Quality1/1 Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level: -200 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rate 1Mb/s
Bit Rate 2Mb/s
....
Bit Rate 54Mb/s

and if i type iwlist ap it shows:

lo Interface doesnt have a list of Access Points
sit0 Interface doesnt have a list of Access Points
eth0 Access Points in range:
AE:70:76:84:EE:0B : Quality:1/1 Signal level:-73dbm noise level:-200 dbm (updated)



if i type dldrconfig --info it says:

Wireless interface name: eth0
MAC address : 00:30:BD:93:40:A4
Device instance: PCI-01:00.0-14e4:4320:1799:7010
device driver:bcmwl5
licence owner:XXX@XX.XX
Licence key : none
Licence status: INVALID



i downloaded your driveloader 3 days ago but licence status is invalid i thought the driverloader will work up to 30 days!????


what can i do if i can get this wlan to work i will buy this driverloader but i would like to test it bevore otherwise i will format my laptop and put windows back on it!

if there is anyone who can help me i would be very happy

if there is anybody out there who can help me and need more information i will give you as soon as possible

Looks like your card is working, when you say you can't see "wlan" on your laptop, what do you mean? Your wireless device name is "eth0", more than likely it is working fine, you just need to set up things like the ip address, the encryption key, the mode, the rate, etc

post the output of ifconfig -a please.

the if config says:
eth0 Protokoll: Ethernet Hardware Adress: 00:30BD:93:40:A4
BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Rx bytes:0 (0.0 b) Tx bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Protokoll: lokale Schleife
inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0
inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
UP loopback running MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
RX bytes 164067 (160.2 Kb) Tx bytes: 164067 (160.2 Kb)

sit0 Protokoll:lPv6-nach lpv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets: errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
RX bytes 0 (0.0 b) Tx bytes: 0 (0.0 b)


thats what the ifconfig -a tells me
any idea whats going on?
because of the output of those german words, i have installed the suse 8.2 german

your wireless card needs an ip address to be able to function, from what I've read in the linuxant documentation, you can configure all the necessary things from your web browser, here's a quote from their faq:

"2) How can I tell if my driver is installed properly?

The easiest way to verify your driver installation is to connect to the
web configuration interface at http://127.1:18020/ (from the system
on which you installed the driver)."

have you tried this?

It set your card in ad-hoc mode by default, most likely its going to need to be in managed mode in order to work properly:

iwconfig eth0 mode managed

Cheers,

Finegan

yes i tried to connect to http://linux:18020/ but on this page i had to login as root and could do some settings to the linuxant driverloader like upoading the windows drivers i will try what finegan suggest me to do (set the eth0 to managed mode maybe that will work, i that makes no troubles because i do not have an access point at home i only have an other pc with windows 2000 on it which manages the wlan ) but i think that wouldnt be the problem

but in that case i have to say thank you because i thought i would not get any help yet

ok i tried managed mode that is a little bit better than ad-hoc because if i then type awconfig it shows some signal level (-36dBm) and noise level (-83dBm) but i still cannot ping the other computer
not even go on the internet or something like that
maybe i should change the ip address but in yast i configured dhcp on my network card options

but where exactly can i change my ip address?
phuuu i have no clue what is going on

Yast will just reset it to whatever you told it to on boot, you can fiddle with the device all you want and yast won't change anything until the next boot (or... runlevel change).

So, just try manually assigning everything. A typical linksys WAP configuration for instance:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.23 up
iwconfig eth0 mode managed
iwconfig eth0 essid linksys
iwconfig eth0 enc 1234567890

iwconfig eth0
(see if the settings are straight and there's an associated AP and a signal, before, the cell mac address was the cell your machine created for itself as a single pier on a pier to pier style wireless network where the piers can communicate without an AP... If a Proper MAC appears once the card is in managed mode, then its actually associating with the wireless router... just on the wireless level, not necessarily on the normal networking level)

route add default gw 192.168.1.1

route

If the output of route just pops up, that means that it can send and receive normal networking from the router. If it stalls for a while, and you're certain that you've got a signal, and you know your IP info is straight, then I would suspect an issue on the router's side.

Cheers,

Finegan