Hi everyone.

I'm trying to make the wireless connection to work, but no success.

It's a IBM thinkpad T23 laptop, onboard 802.11 b.

It worded with windows xp. It works with KNOPPIX.
Now I have RedHat 9.0

So Far I installed:

kernel-wlan-ng-0.2.0-7.i686.rpm
kernel-wlan-ng-modules-rh9.8-0.2.0-7.i686.rpm
kernel-wlan-ng-pci-0.2.0-7.i686.rpm

and followed some instructions to configure, but no success.

HERE is some info:
[root@localhost wireless]# ifup wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function not implemented.

Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.
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[root@localhost wireless]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"noodletwister" Nickname:"noodletwister"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.
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[root@localhost wireless]# dmesg | grep wlan0
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
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I messed up somewhere.

Is there someone that could help me?
I'd really appreciated!

thanks

hey,
First, I think that RH9 is a bit out of date, you might want to consider one of the Fedora Core releases. That said, it looks like your wireless device is being detected & configured, which is good. I'd try to set the SSID manually & see what you get back - from the command line, try
iwconfig wlan0 essid any
if your access point has no security set, or
iwconfig wlan0 essid <ssid of wap>
if it does. If you get an error, then you have more info. Hopefully, you will not get an error, at which point you should try iwconfig again & you should see that the
Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
has turned into
Access Point: <MAC of your wap>.
If this is the case, then I think that the problem lies with the script that's running when you call ifup.

Good Luck!

Hey, thanks so much for replying.

I'm going to follow your advice and install Fedora 4 then.
Do you think that I should swicth to a different distro?

once again, thanks

Distro is a very personal choice, & there's always a lot of drum banging about favorites. I myself run Slackware, also on a T23, and like it very much. What's right for me might not be for you, though, so do some homework, see what's out there, & then decide for yourself.
The forums here are a good place to start on that score - you could at least get a feel for common problems with a given distro.

Have fun ;D
~ben