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Old 11-11-2004, 07:48 PM   #1
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Red face intel pro wirelss on Dell 600m with Debian


I've installed Debian Sarge on a Dell 600m. It has an intelpro wireless card. I downloaded ipw2100-***.tgz and the firmware and installed it. But it still doesn't work. I installed kwifimanager. The kwifimanager icon shows that wirelss is connected and the strength is good. But when I open a webbrowser I cannot get the internet working.
What is wrong with it? Do i need to adjust settings on the ipw2100... ?
I did apt-get install wireless-tools as well. Do i need to play with the wireless-tools. How do I play with it? I mean where are the configuration files of wireless-tools I can play with?
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Old 11-12-2004, 02:29 AM   #2
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Hello siku,

For more info on wireless tools visit Jean:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...nux/Tools.html

If you can run

Code:
iwconfig
from a command line and post back with the output that would be a great start. Sounds like DNS isnt setup right but it would be better to get some hard facts. The iwconfig command is the wireless equivalent of ifconfig and should show you your wireless connections.
Regards
Chris
 
Old 11-14-2004, 01:00 PM   #3
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this is the message when i do
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"noyoog" Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66D:2C:AC
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=32 dBm
Retryn RTS thr=2304 B Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=85/100 Signal level=-73 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:181 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

The thing is that I have to manually setup the wireless everytime.
Before doing the above iwconfig I did the following commands.
#iwlist eth1 scan|more
{ i then selected one of the wireless networks}
#iwconfig eth1 essid "noyoog"
#dhclient eth1
{ then only does my wireless work}
Do I have to do this everytime I want wireless to work.
There is also another problem with this.
The wireless I am using right now doesn't require any authentication, but when I use the wireless in my university, I have to log in. Will my running iwcongit and dhclient enable me to use my university wireless as well?
Also how do i boot so that Linux doesn't look for either eth0 or eth1 by default. Because When I boot in the normal mode I get the message where it looks for eth0, I press ctrl+c and then it looks for eth1, I again press ctrl +c, but this time it doesnt' work. And I cannot log into linux. The onlyway I can log in is by starting linux in recovery mode.
(also what does dhclient doooo???)
Thanks
Siku
 
Old 11-14-2004, 05:38 PM   #4
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dhclient is a command to obtain an IP address from your DHCP server which, in the case of wireless, is your access point. The reason you are having problems is that you are using different AP's so you need to use a script to configure your setup at boot. Basically so it looks for one access point, then the next etc etc. Unfortunately I'm still learning this stuff myself and I have no experience with scripts. Is there anyone else who can help with this?
 
Old 11-15-2004, 06:16 AM   #5
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try installing the netapplet package; does a nice job of configuring wireless, as long as you're willing to wait a minute or two after you login till it wakes up. otherwise tho you'll probably have to just do the "iwlist scan" / "iwconfig essid blah key blah" / "dhclient" dance every time you change wifi nets
 
Old 11-15-2004, 08:47 AM   #6
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what is this netapplet you speak of jfromcanada? I have not heard of this new-fangled invention.
 
Old 11-15-2004, 02:00 PM   #7
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will netapplet... disable eth0 and eth1 at boot time? how do I disable looking for eth0 or eth1 at boot time so that i can boot normally .. other wise I have to boot in recovery mode and press ctrl+c when it looks for eth0 and eth1.
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