Using Yoper 2.1

I am having a hard time finding where to configure my wireless connection. I need to configure settings such as WEP and I could not find that anywhere. I tried iwconfig and configred my wep key but still can't get it to work. My wireless network card is using the prism54 chipset which is 100% compatible with the kernel.

You could try this

first

type lsmod to make sure your drivers are loaded.

then type iwlist wlan0 scan

to see the available networks
then type iwconfig wlan0 essid "NetWorkName"
then if your using dynamic ip type this
dhcpcd wlan0 (or dh-client wlan0)

Thats how i get connected.

My drivers are loaded. When I type "iwlist wlan0 scan" I get an "Interface doesn't support scanning." The device might not be wlan0 but something else. I typed iwconfig and my wireless is eth1. I tried "iwlist eth1 scan" and got an "Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported."

When you type iwconfig you should see something like this...

lo no wireless extensions.

dummy0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:20:2A:98:78:E8
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:97/100 Signal level:-89 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:10 Invalid misc:4378 Missed beacon:0


And the net connection should be the one with the managed if you dont see an access point i think there would be something wrong with the driver.

Try using ndiswrapper for your

Actually mine is more like the following:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:20:2A:98:78:E8
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:97/100 Signal level:-89 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:10 Invalid misc:4378 Missed beacon:0


Except mine doesn't have a Link Quality and a real Access point (just all zeros). I shouldn't have to use ndiswrapper. I remember using the same card back when I used Red Hat 7.1. It's using the prism chipset which is very compatible with the Linux Kernel.

I am using ndiswrapper for a broadcom chipset, so I may be a little different from yours, but my essid and wep key are stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wireless.

I had to customize some of these scripts for my ndiswrapper to work, but you ought to have several ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-wireless, ifcfg-lo files that look like this:
ONBOOT=yes
IP=192.168.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
MODE=Managed
ESSID=linksys
KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (yours would be your WEP key)
DEVICE=wlan0

Try playing with this to see what works.

Don't know if you're still working on this, but I've just got my wireless PCMCIA card on Yoper going, using this link to help me troubleshoot. Although you may not have to install the module it is still helpful for troubleshooting purposes.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/post-119238.html

I found that although I managed to get activity on the card the WEP key stopped me from connecting. Also the card wouldn't activate on bootup. To get around this I had to modify the "/etc/init.d/network" file to read as follows at the end of this message.

Note: The iwconfig line ends at the "&" which follows the WEP key, if it comes up as two lines in your browser.

Replace the X's with your ESSID and WEP key numbers respectivly.

Change the "eth1" to your own card's reference. The "eth1" is related to my own wireless PCMCIA card. After a reboot it all worked.

Cheers,
hrep14



#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 01 20


source /etc/init.d/functions

case "$1" in
start)

rm -rf /etc/dhcpc/*
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
dhclient eth0 &
iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXXXXX mode managed key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX &
dhclient eth1 &
;;

stop)
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth1 down
killall dhclient
;;

restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;

*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|}"
exit 1
;;
esac