Wireless Internet help . . .

[darksaga80]

Okay, here's the deal:

Got the internet configured on my Mandriva 05' LE - no problem. The wireless internet is not going so smooth.

Here's the setup:

I have an IBM Thinkpad T30 2367 with the Intel 82801 CAM (ICH3) Pro1/100 VE (LOM) wireless card in it.

I used the MCC and configured the wireless connection like this:

1) Menu -> System -> Configure -> Configure your computer.
2) Enter root pword
3) Selected "Network and Internet"
4) Set up a new network interface
5) Selected "LAN connection"
6) Selected "eth0: Intel Corp./Express Pro 100
7) Ethernet Protocol chosen "Manual configuration"
Entered *IP Address and Netmask
*These were obtained by typing in the "ipconfig" command on the computer that still has WinXP
9) Entered Host Name, DNS server 1, search domain, and gateway.
10) did NOT enter a ZeroConf Host Name
11) Selected "No" for if I want to allow users to start connection
12) Restarted network
13) right click on network icon, and select "Connect eth0"
14) enter root pword

Then get the message on the internet icon "Network is up on interface eth0"

Attempt to connect to internet and. . . . .

wait and wait and wait and wait - then get the message:

"www.google.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again."

I have no idea what I did wrong, but it just doesnt want to connect. When you look at the traffic, there's some going out, but nothing coming in.


Any sugesstions??



thanks in advance.

[AlexK]

In the MCC, I thought you had to select "wireless connection" to set up the card. And eth0 really sounds like a wired card to me. Also, please post the results of this command (you need root permissions to run it):

iwconfig

[darksaga80]

okay, here is the output:

sit0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I'll go back and configure it for "Wireless Connection", reboot and see if that helps any...

[AlexK]

hmm, system may be confused because it sees that you have two wireless cards installed and doesn't know which one to use. I'd say delete the present configurations for the wireless cards and start over.

[darksaga80]

Alex,

I figured it out, your quip about the eth0 card being a wired card set me off and I reconfigured the connection with the wlan0 settings and everything worked out. So thanks for the tip, it made sense and allowed me get my wireless connection up and running - so thanks again!


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