question

[Rick Sivernell]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:06:43 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> 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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Roger

  I guess what is really needed is a more complete step for wireless & it's
education. My new card is seen and all but transmitting. I get services fai;led
to start on netmount. I guess I will be doing more research here today.

  Many thanks for good info thogh  Cheers

-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Gentoo Linux 
Registered Linux User

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