DLink DWL-650 woes

[Rick Stevens]

steven ney wrote:
> Thanks for the advice!!!
> I'm a tad embarrassed to say, but I don't seem to have iwconfig (nor
> ifconfig) on my system. I have the GUI versions (system-config-networks)
> but not the command line programmes

Please bottom post in the future.

Anyway, iwconfig and ifconfig are available to the root user only.  You
have to be root to play with them.

Log in as root (or use sudo or su) and run "iwconfig -a".  See if the
card is listed.  If it is, post the information shown and I'll help you
walk through it.  If you'd rather take this off-list (to keep passwords,
ESSIDs and such a bit more private), feel free to email me directly:

	rstevens at vitalstream.com

> Thanks again

No problem.

> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:13 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>steven ney wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>I am trying to get a PCI/PCMCIA D-Link DWL 650 (rev J3) card to work on
>>>both my Fedora C3 desktop (PIII, 700MHz, 512M) and my Thinkpad X20. Both
>>>machines recognise the card/ chipset (Intersil Prism II) but after
>>>configuring the wlan connection (as an adhoc network), I can't activate
>>>the wlan network on the desktop. What is more, the error message flashes
>>>past so quickly that I can only make out it is allegedly not getting the
>>>MAC number its expecting. (As you probably can tell, I'm a noob) 
>>>
>>>I have looked through the fora and have not found anything on this card
>>>and I would greatly appreciate any advice. 
>>
>>I used to have one of those.  Does iwconfig show the card?  If so,
>>then the problem has to do with the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file.
>>There's no entry that matches the D-Link's MAC address.
>>
>>You can bypass that by using the iwconfig commands directly or by
>>using system-config-network to set them up.
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>>- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
>>-                                                                    -
>>-            The gene pool could use a little chlorine.              -
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
> 
> 


-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
-                                                                    -
-           If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid!           -
----------------------------------------------------------------------