I decided to buy wireless network hardware. As I am rather new to wireless management, I decided to install PCLinuxOS hoping that everything will be detected automatically, and I think it did.
I've got:
- Linksys WRT54GL router
- Edimax EW7128G Pci wireless adapter
Code:
07:07.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
Code:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:F5:37:4F
inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:2eff:fef5:374f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:302448 (295.3 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:28
Code:
/sbin/lsmod | grep rt
rt61 207624 1
/etc/resolv.conf
Code:
nameserver 194.168.4.100
nameserver 194.168.8.100
nameserver 192.168.1.1 # my router's address
search 8\025\221|\226\025\221|\353\006\221|
It seems that everything is recognised and I'm connected to my network but signal is 0%.
I even installed winxp to test if perhaps the hardware is faulty, but no, everything works fine (signal 100%)
As I said I don't know much about wireless networks, so perhaps I'm missing something
thanks