wireless card will not power on

stress · 09-10-2004, 12:17 PM

I'm tring to set up a bridge, on SUSE9 i have the a wireless laptop, and a wire network already in place. I have the two cards in the SUSE box and the wired one works fine when i do ifconfig the wired card comes up as eth0 but the wireless card (DLINK DWL 520+) comes up as "lo". I can view both card under Network Card in the Control Center. Is there something i missed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

flyfishin · 09-11-2004, 04:36 PM

Your wireless card is not coming up as lo. lo is the loopback device used by the system(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback).

Are you sure it is a dwl-520+? My understanding is that the 520+ is a PCI card.

stress · 09-12-2004, 12:44 AM

I figured that out and i also read i had to install the ndiswrapper to use windows driver and i did that and loaded the driver, the card came on of like 1/2 hr then the i did ifconfig and i saw the wlan0 but then it went off again i can't understand it. Any Suggestion

kersten78 · 09-14-2004, 12:01 AM

You need to make sure you have your essid and key set. I was having the same problem. Make certain that the essid is the last thing you set.. Here's what I do:

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 key open myhexkeyyy
iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid
dhcpcd -t 10 -d wlan0

This works on slack 10. You may want to use dhclient instead of dhcpcd, but I'm pretty sure it will work either way.
Good luck.

stress · 09-16-2004, 11:44 PM

wlan0 does not come up when i do ifconfig it's using the acx100_pci driver, i've also tried using the ndiswrapper with windows drivers do i need to put the windows drivers in a specific directory. Because the card will not come on. Any help would be appreciated

stress · 09-17-2004, 02:48 AM

Ok i finally got it up i can see the linux machine from my laptop atleast i use macstumbler to see the access point.. But i can't connect it keeps tell me there was a problem joining network. How do i view wireless connections from Linux machine. THanks for all ur Help

flyfishin · 09-17-2004, 06:15 AM

Run

iwlist device scan

from a command line as the root user and you should see available wireless connections. Also, as kersten78 said, make sure to set the essid for the network you are trying to connect to and if it is WEP encrypted set the key using iwconfig as shown.

stress · 09-17-2004, 11:53 AM

Ok now i can see the wireless card in the linu box from my laptop which is a macintosh, i wanna use SUSE as my access point are there any special packages i need to installl to accomplish this task. Thanks for all ur help

kersten78 · 09-17-2004, 01:16 PM

I'm not exactly sure about setting up encryption etc, but if you set the card's mode to Master:

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 mode Master

your card should act as an access point (assuming your card is configured as device wlan0). If anyone else knows anything about this, please post. I was actually going to attempt the same thing, using an old computer I have to act as my wireless access point, firewall, dhcp server, etc. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
-Kris

stress · 09-17-2004, 04:41 PM

I did that the light on the Network card in the Linux bux flashes but i can't see it from the laptop the only time i see it from the laptop is when i set then linux box to ad-hoc. I'm still working on it, if any one has any suggest, i would really use ur help Thanks