Wireless PCI with DSL Connection

Greetings,

I am _very_ new to Linux networking, and after having read the little bit
I can find in the printed manuals and doing some web and group archive
searches, I'm still grasping at straws here.

I'm running SuSE 9.0, and I'm trying to set up the LinkSys WMP11 wireless
PCI card so I can connect to my DSL connection from a computer in another
room. I am using SBC Yaho DSL, and it shipped with a 2Wire modem (the
HomePortal 1000SW).

This is my first time running SuSE, so I have tried to do all of the
configurations through YaST. I configured a new wireless network device,
and I fed in the appropriate ESSID and encryption key. I (probably
naively) simply tried to run Konqueror after running through that
configuration routine, and I have no activity.

What do I need to be doing to activate the wireless connection? It's set
up as wlan0, and I'm not sure what I need to do after the configuration to
actually authenticate the connection and start surfing the web and such. I
already did this on a computer running Windows XP (home edition) on a
computer in another room, and it literally involved right-clicking on the
connection icon in the system tray and manually feeding in the encryption
key. It looks like I won't be quite so lucky with Linux.

I appreciate the help.

Jeff

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> This is my first time running SuSE, so I have tried to do all of the
> configurations through YaST. I configured a new wireless network device,
> and I fed in the appropriate ESSID and encryption key. I (probably
> naively) simply tried to run Konqueror after running through that
> configuration routine, and I have no activity.

Assuming that the essid and encryption key are entered properly and that
the proper driver is loaded, you can probably get your connection up by
running:
dhcpcd wlan0

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:45:22 -0800, Dan Mahoney wrote:

>> This is my first time running SuSE, so I have tried to do all of the
>> configurations through YaST. I configured a new wireless network device,
>> and I fed in the appropriate ESSID and encryption key. I (probably
>> naively) simply tried to run Konqueror after running through that
>> configuration routine, and I have no activity.
>
> Assuming that the essid and encryption key are entered properly and that
> the proper driver is loaded, you can probably get your connection up by
> running:
> dhcpcd wlan0

You bring up a good point here. How would I know what driver I'm supposed
to use? And what's the easiest way to load a new driver or unload an
existing driver? Is trial and error my best bet for finding a driver that
works?

Thanks again for the help,

Jeff

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> You bring up a good point here. How would I know what driver I'm supposed
> to use? And what's the easiest way to load a new driver or unload an
> existing driver? Is trial and error my best bet for finding a driver that
> works?
>
> Thanks again for the help,
>
> Jeff

That can be a challenge! What's the make and model of your wireless
card? Oh wait, you said that - Linksys WMP11. I looked at the web pages
and wasn't able to find any information on the chipset it uses. You
might want to try out the Prism2 and Orinico drivers, just in case. Most
of the cards I've looked at have used either the Prism or Hermes chipsets.

You might want to take a look at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ - there's a lot of
good information there. http://www.linux-wlan.org/ can also be very
helpful.

If you've got the proper drivers built on your system, there's a good
chance that the system will see it when you plug in the card. Otherwise,
you might have to "modprobe module-name" to cause it to load.

If you want to see what modules are loaded, use "lsmod". If you see a
module loaded that you want to unload, use "rmmod module_name".

Dan Mahoney wrote:

> card? Oh wait, you said that - Linksys WMP11. I looked at the web pages
> and wasn't able to find any information on the chipset it uses. You

You didn't look very well then. Hardware compatibility list at
linux-wlan.org says that WMP11 used Prism2/2.5/3 chipset (works with
linux-wlan-ng drivers and kernel source drivers), *but* recent cards are
Broadcom (which IIRC doesn't have Linux drivers).

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