Hi,
I'm sending an updated problem description including info addressing
Werner's comments. In short, I'm using DHCP; WLAN is unencrypted; output
from 'iwconfig eth0' see below.
Cheers,
Starl8gazer
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Hardware:
* IBM laptop Thinkpad T30 Type 2366-B1U S/N 78-HFTB9 08/02
* Cisco PCMCIA card Aironet 340 11Mbps 2.4GHz DS
System software:
* dual boot machine Windows XP and Linux
* Suse Linux 10.1, 'uname -rv' says '2.6.16.21-0.25-default #1 Tue Sep
19 07:26:15 UTC 2006', all patches duly downloaded and installed;
using KDE
* infos from YaST/Network Devices/Cisco 340 Series Wireless LAN Adapter:
Automatic Address Setup (via DHCP)
Hardware Details:
Hardware Configuration Name: bus-pcmcia-0.0
Module Name: airo_cs
(that is what it came up with at the installation of Suse)
DHCP Options: Hostname to Send: AUTO
Symptoms:
* under Suse Linux, I cannot get wireless connection to local WLAN;
KWiFiManager shows excelent signal strength, KNetworkManager shows that
the little blue progress bar for the connection process stops at about
2/3 of full length, SSID of local unincrypted WLAN is recognized in both
cases
* output from...
> # ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:96:44:9F:C7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2036 errors:463 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:463
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:145412 (142.0 Kb) TX bytes:78 (78.0 b)
Interrupt:4 Base address:0x4100
> # iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"<local_wlan_id>"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:24:C8:9B:60
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=0/65535
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=48/100 Signal level=-72 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:3 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:466 Missed beacon:0
* same card used to work under Suse 9.1
* under Windows XP wireless connection looks okay
> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:32:21 +0800
> From: Werner <werda@netfront.net>
>
>
> starl8gazer@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could anyone please help me out in the following problem?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > In you reply, please be specific as I am not a Linux expert at all.
> >
> > Thank you for your time and help,
> >
> > Starl8gazer
>
> That sounds like the radio part is ok.
> We need to know a little bit more, though.
> Presumably you have configured an IP address/netmask or is it DHCP?
> What does iwconfig eth1 (I'm blindly assuming eth0 is the ethernet port
> and eth1 is the wireless port) say?
> Are you using WEP?
>
> Werner
>