I am new to Linux and Linux Wireless config. I am running Suse 9.1 and have the linksys wireless-b adaptermodel no. wpc11 ver 4. i am more less looking for a complete stepo by step tutorial. ive tried polenty of time and as i said am new to linux. thanks for the help

Hi, Sall! I, too, am a Linux noobie (though I've been in IT for 12 years, now). I am having the exact same problem as you describe here. My Linksys card will power up and appear to make a connection to my access point, but it will never receive an IP address, nor am I able to communicate on my network if I hardcode an IP address. I am anxious to get this thing working, too. While doing some research, I decided to see what Linksys themselves have regarding this very problem.

Turns out they have what appears to be a helpful page. You can go here to view their instructions for getting the Linux drivers working for their card. I hope to put this into practice tonight and see if I can get it working.

In the event the link above doesn't work, the exact web address for the page is http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...=&p_topview=1.


With as many problems as people have regarding this, I hope that this will work. Let me know if you have any success with it.

Shadeboy,
I looked into your post seems helpful. I ran into problem though when it got to the Kernel part. This is the message I received. Any guesses? I'm lost...

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The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]: y
Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n
Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]: n
Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Linux source directory [/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.151-default/build]:
Linux source tree /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.151-default/build is incomplete or missing!
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.

Configuration failed

Craig@linux:~/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26>

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Sall,
I'm afraid I'm stumped, too. I have very little experience compiling, and I'm afraid the limits of my ability to help have been reached. Hopefully someone else can chime in, here.

On another note, I do have my wireless working under SUSE Linux 9.2. To be honest, I really don't know how I got it working. But if you want to read the story about it, you can find it here.