question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:52:00 -0600
Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:

> Roger
> 
>    I just bought a SMC2532W-B wireless card. plugged it into the slot &
>    now I
> have ifconfig with lo ok & iwconfig wlano up. I do not have a connection
> to the internet yet, I figure something in conf is not set right. The
> wired lan when I use it has a 192.168.0.101 from dhcp given to it. I took
> that out for now & rebooted system. cardctl ident has it displayed to a
> tee & both pwr and connection light are on.
> 
>    I have gentoo 2.4.20r8 on a Dell Latitude CPx650. I do have a question
>    here.
> On my router there is a place to set encryption keys, 4 each. Now this is
> for the 64 bit / 128 bit encryption. Is there a standard type or range of
> numbers used here or what ever you like.  I assume the numbers here must
> match those in wlan.conf. SSID, on router it is defualt, should that be
> used in system conf files or is there something else to use, this machine
> will be used in multi locations.  Many thanks to any & all help

I am probably wrong, but the SSID is a number independent of encryption.
Whatever SSID is set to on the router must also be used on the wireless
client. I guess it is an initial check before a connection can be made.
iwconfig calls this 'essid'. IIRC, it is, initially, usually set to
something like 6. You could try 'essid off' or 'essid any' to see if your
card allows this. If not, then I guess you must change this where a
different SSID is in use. This is typically only done to mark a network as
'private'. Otherwise, most probably leave it at the default. I do not
remember where I saw this, but I think you can also have a list of values,
and each will be tried. It could have been either Gentoo or SUSE. If yiu do
not find it, let me know and I can look.

As to encryption, well, I have had some difficulty with that. Oddly, my
D-LINK AP-2000+ will not let me in to the web admin over the wireless card.
I have not had a chance to hook it up via the ethernet to access that way.
The linuxant drivers have just added WPA support, which I was waiting for so
I could just do this once (JDTO). It also seems to involve a firmware
upgrade on my access point. I did not want to disturb family usage over
Christmas. Next block of time I get I will sort this out.

Not sure this helps.


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