brief wireless config tutorial please

[lionel47]

Great: this worked for me, too. Now the big question:

How do we get this to stay on boot so we don't have to go through this ritual every day? Thanks.

[BugMan]

Has anybody had any success with configing a Belkin FSD6020?

[ibrewale]

I have to say "wow" as this worked for me on my Toshiba Satelite with a 2WIRE wireless card. The Wow is because I've installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop today, and then ran it off the disk on my laptop later in the day...all with outstanding success....now to install on the laptop once I figure out how to get the screen resolution up on the install script so I can see everything....

Thanks for the great wireless help...another new satisfied linux convert!!

Jerry

That was it!!! I'm in knoppix right now, using my wireless card to connect! I made it way more complicated than it was. Thank you so much.

So for any other linux newbies out there who's wireless card is detected and loaded without errors, but you aren't connecting over your wireless card:

1. Go to the command line and type... wlcardconfig
2. Enter your wireless network's name (SSID) when prompted.
3. Enter your WEP key/password (if your network is encrypted) when prompted.
4. Leave the other specs blank.
5. After you complete the config, at the command line type... pump -i eth0
(where "0" is the number of your wireless card)

[saibot]

hi,

I'm using knoppix 3.4, & was using 3.3 before that. That's how I'm currently running linux, as I'm a recent linux convert. I'm glad to hear that knoppix is easy to get up & running on wireless cards, but I don't own one yet & want to buy. any suggestions on wireless pc card adapters to buy? what are good, compatible, inexpensive cards? I'm just looking for casual "coffee shop hotspot" surfing...my home network is & will remain wired. thanks!

toby

[TimWhite]

Go for an old prism2 or orinoco based card, such as the old DWL650 (not 650+) or orinioco gold 802.11b card.
These will work.

Support for the new 802.11g cards is patchy at best, although people have had success with ndiswrapper and madwifi
--
TimW

[saibot]

Hey...thanks a bunch Tim! I looked around for a deal on that card & bought it for $25. I took it & my laptop to Panera Bread (free WiFi), fired it up w/ Knoppix 3.4, & the instant (literally) that the Konqueror browser opened, it said "connecting" & had a revolving green arrow thing. Then it went to Panera's portal page, & after doing the license agreement thing, I was online. I didn't have to do anthing! Doesn't get any easier, & that's on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-17!

[idolcrash]

I did this multiple times with the same card as the original poster, and it still doesn't work (only worked once).

[saibot]

based on my own limited experience w/ Linux, but my larger experience in IT, I'd say get another card. Follow the advice Tim gave about the chipset, or just get the same card he mentioned, like I did...the Dlink DWL650. Is $25 really worth spending hours trying to troubleshoot an intermittent problem?

I'm assuming you've ruled out the usual stuff like RF interference, range, "over-configuration", etc. Since you say it worked once, I'm also assuming you've recreated that environment as best as possible...i.e. same PC, same version of knoppix, same location of PC & wifi base station, etc.

[j.drake]

Ordinarily, I wouldn't cross-post, but it looks like my post in networking is getting no hits at all, so please forgive me.

I bought the Microsoft MN-520 PCMCIA wlan card. My computer boots around this card, but when the modprobe looks for prism2_cs, I get a FATAL message, saying that module prism2_cs is not found, exits with a status 1, but continues booting. Then it says something about module /lib/modules/2.6.6/pcmcia/prism2_cs.o not available, and bind prism2_cs to socket 1 failed : invalid argument. The card is being detected just fine, and it isn't keeping me from doing other things, but Knoppix just isn't finding what it needs to run it.

I'm wondering if the failure to find the prism2_cs has anything to do with the script being written prior to version 3.4, and when 3.4 was released with two different kernels, the file structure changed just enough to make things go wonky. I noticed that some of the system directories seemed to have changed to accommodate two kernels, but maybe the script wasn't changed to reflect the new directory locations - hence, they can't be "found". I posted this on buglist for 2004-05-17 as #4 as a potential bug, as almost a third of the posted bugs relate to the failure of Knoppix to detect wi-fi cards.

My hardware: Microsoft MN-520 PCMCIA adapter on a Sony VAIO PCG-FXA47 notebook, running Knoppix 2004-05-17 3.4, 2.6 kernel, live CD with persistent home and saved config both on a USB thumbdrive.

I tried d/l-ing the most recent linux-wlan-ng tarball, and did my best to follow this advice w/r/t installation and configuration:

http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/lin...mp11-linux.htm

The article isn't specific to debian or knoppix, but after I followed the procedure in a root terminal, I did get confirmation that the configuration was successful (still doesn't work, though).

In another thread, paradocs advised nick to put a script in the /ramdisk/home/knoppix/.kde/Autostart directory, but I couldn't find such a beast.

I'm new to wlan - I don't even have a base station, but I wanted to have wlan access on vacation at various hotspots.

Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. I guess I'm at least lucky that things aren't locking. TIA,

JD

[saibot]

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I'd ditch the card. Since it's Microsoft branded, I have a hard time believing it complies 100% w/ the 802.11 spec. Probaly has some of their "extensions" That's probably why the dlink works perfectly...right at the front of the manual, it says very clearly that it was built to follow the spec 100%, to the letter. So for $25 or less, I'd stop fighting it. You can always sell your other card on ebay, to a friend, or save it for windows (if you still use that)