Hi, I have a D-link 650+ PCMCIA wireless lan card (sounds familiar?), and I'm
having limited success getting it to work. I've followed instructions at
http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php which are excellent.

One thing I noticed with my laptop (Sony GRX316MP = GRX600 in the states), is
that the PCMCIA_SYSTEM needs to be set to kernel (in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia) to
get the sourceforge driver to work. I'm using SuSE 9.0.

Now, I get to the point where everything is recognised by iwconfig, and try to
ping the router after adding a default gateway - there I'm stuck, the light on
the card flashes on/off but I never manage to ping anything

I'm not sure how to check what the correct settings for the wireless
configuration are. It looks like I am connected to the wireless router since I
can see its MAC address using iwconfig.

Should I avoid trying to configure using YAST's GUI?

Any help much appreciated.

Yours,

Jon.

What version of the driver are you using? Pre 3 works goog for me. Pre 4 locks up my computer, and I can not ping or connect with Pre 5.

pre5 - compiled fine obviously, but cant connect ping etc. Are you running on similar h/w, o/s to mine? I need to check on a few things - but I guess this is mostly down to authentication on the wireless lan????

Jon.

ok here are a few suggestions

when adding the route for your gateway make sure you set it for your wireless device so if it is wlan0 than use the following

$ route add default gw [ur.gw.adr.ess] wlan0

or maybe your mtu is not set to 576, you can check this by doing

$ifconfig

there should be a word called metric with a value, that value is standard 1500, for wireless it is best at 576, you can set it to 576 by typing the following

$ifconfig wlan0 [ur.ip.adr.ess] mtu 576

you can also try to bring down your normal not wireless connection

$ifconfig eth0 down

goodluck, I hope it works out for you, otherwise you can hope akaBeavis reads this message... he is a Guru with this card!!!

Cheers

btw I am also running pre5 with no probs... ;-)

yeah i dont think the driver is the problem, akaBeavis is already on the case I'll try his and your suggestions and report back. Thx.

I am running MDK 9.1. I also know from a past problem that the card akaBeavis has is not the same as the one I have. My card uses the Maxium radio. The FCC ID of my card ends in B2, I think I do not have in front of me.

I am also using the instructions from the Houseofcraig, but still no go with Pre 5.

There are a few others on the ACX100 website that are reporting the same problems that I am having.

Please post back when you have the problem sorted out.

Right - I'm now using the wireless card to type this. So I guess that means it
works

Right, how did "I" do it. Well first I followed the instructions on:
http://www.houseofcraig.net I used the pre5 version of the acx100_pci driver.

Now, I didn't want to have to run a script to configure the system each time
I booted and I wanted to use dhcp to configure the IP address. SuSE 9.0
has a couple of files you need to edit.
Now this laptop has built in LAN (which is eth0) so I copied ifcfg-eth0 to
ifcfg-eth1 and made the following changes:

linux:/etc/sysconfig/network # more ifcfg-eth1
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='hotplug'
UNIQUE='oxTw.6mlarS_OasB' <- huh what's that all about???
WIRELESS='yes'
MTU='576'

next I edited the file /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless, to include all the
things specific to my network: ESSID, transmit rate, WEP key etc.

Next I rebooted without the card installed. Upon putting the card in, hotplug
takes over and tries to configure it. But it didn't work (I couldn't ping
anything) Why? Well the oracle (House of Craig) says that sometimes you need
to give the card a kick to get it to work. It seemed like the gateway wasn't
configured so I issued the commands: route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth1,
then iwconfig eth1 essid blah-blah-blah and that seemed to do it.

So it's not quite fully automatic, but it works.

Jon.