Wireless problems with Lucent Tech card

I cannot seem to see my network (or router) with my wireless card. The
system seems to see the card. I used the network configuration utility
to set the card up as the only network device and to run dhcp. Still I
can't see the rest of my network and I'm not sure why.

I'm using a Lucent Tech (Orinoco) pcmcia wireless card on my Laptop running
RH 8.0. The system does detect the card correctly and loads the module for
it (wvlan_cs). The system gives me the two good beeps when booting and the
lights on the card come on like it's happy. I'm using a Belkin wireless
router. The system is dual boot and the wireless system works fine with
Windows so I know the hardware is fine.

ifconfig yields:

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:23:E54
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5892 (5.7 Kb)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
RX bytes:9646 (9.4 Kb) TX bytes:9646 (9.4 Kb)


iwconfig eth1 yields:

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"WLAN" Nickname:"Sara"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462GHz Cell: 00:30:BD:C2:C5:64
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:7365-6375-31
Power Managementff
Link Quality:61/92 Signal level:-30 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0


route yields:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

When I try to add a default route to my router the system just says that
the "Network is unreachable"

I notice that iwconfig shows an encryption key but I am not running WEP on
my router (I live a good 1/2 mile from my nearest neighbor and the road).
I set the ESSID to WLAN though my router calls it SSID. Could this be my
problem?

I've played at this for a while and gotten nowhere. Any help or suggestions
on how to trouble shoot this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

James Kimble

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:54:45 -0800, James Kimble wrote:


>
> ifconfig yields:
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:23:E54
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5892 (5.7 Kb)
>

You can see that your card has no ip address. Try to set up one manually
(in a terminal) :
ifconfig eth1 ip.address netmask netmask.value

Then try to ping your router (or any other machine on your network).

>
> Thanks,
>
> James Kimble

Vincent