how to config the wireless network connection,

[littlewenwen]

dear all,

my computer is a Dell 600m with Suse 10.0. The netcard is intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG.

it can detect and connect to our school's wireless network (no password needed). however, it can not connect to our home's wireless network although it seems to be able to detect the signal(we have a linksys wireless router connected to DSL). The other laptop with Windows can connect to the wireless network with no problem.

i would like to re-config the wireless network connection, preferrably by YAST. Can anyone show me how to do it?

[aliov]

As Root Try this.
iwlist {the_name_of_your_interface} scan
and see the output if your home connection name appear,
and after you can connect trough the command line also
iwconfig {the_name_of_your_interface} essid {the name of your network} mode managed
iwconfig {the_name_of_your_interface} key off or iwconfig {the_name_of_your_interface} key {...........}
dhcpcd {the_name_of_your_interface}.
you can see the name of your interface by typing only iwconfig.(ex eth1).

I'm proposing this solution only to see if everything is ok.
if this work so of course you can connect to the internet with GUI,
tell me which GUI you are using Gnome KDE ?

Hope this help

[Oxygen]

iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid>
iwconfig wlan0 key s:<ascii-key>
dhclient wlan0

[littlewenwen]

Thank you so much!

I am not exactly certain what the command line should be. let's say, my interface is eth1, the name of the wireless network is wenwen05, and password is abcdefghih, the command line should look like this:

iwconfig eth1 abcdefghih dhcpcd wenwen05

right?


by the way, I DID be able to connect to the wireless net BEFORE. One thing that seems changed is: the channel was 11 when i can connect, but now for some reason the wirless channel changes to 1. I am not sure if this is the problem

[littlewenwen]

Thank you for your help.

let's say, my interface is eth1, the name of the wireless network is wenwen05, and password is abcdefghih,

when I try to type:

iwconfig wlan0 essid wenwen05

it gabe me such error message:

Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A):
SET failed on device wlan0: No such device

When I type:

iwlist eth1 scan

I did see my wireless network wenwen05

What should i do?

by the way, I DID be able to connect to the wireless net BEFORE. One thing since that seems changed is: the channel was 11 when i can connect, but now for some reason the wirless channel changes to 1. I am not sure if this is the problem.

[littlewenwen]

maybe to make it simple:

How to set the wireless connection configuration to its ORIGINAL settings?

[aliov]

Ok these are the command
iwconfig eth1 essid wenwen05 mode managed (press enter)
iwconfig eth1 key abcdefghih (press enter)
dhcpcd eth1 (press enter)

hope this help