[Cialug] Fw: Re: DSL and wireless

[Tom Sellers]

I have been working every night late and have not had any time to work on this during the week.  I am traveling today and will see if I can give it a whirl tonight.  Sorry for taking so long to respond!

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL and wireless
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 5:43 AM
> Can you explain how to "post
> dmseg"?  Like I said Linux is not my strong suit.
> 
> --- On Fri, 1/8/10, jrnosee at gmail.com
> <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: jrnosee at gmail.com
> <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL and wireless
> > To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 11:16 AM
> > Can you post dmesg?  Is DSL loading your
> > PCMCIA properly?
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM,
> > Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I loaded DSL on a USB stick so that I could boot
> up my
> > laptop in Linux rather than try to use my other old
> laptop.
> >  It works if I connect it directly to a cable but
> wireless
> > is another story.  The DSL site says that the Cisco
> wirless
> > 350 PCMCIA card works out of the box but I can't seem
> to
> > make it work at all.  The laptop (IBM Thinkpad
> R60)actually
> > has a built in Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG network
> card.
> >  It appeared that this card does not work well with
> DSL so
> > I chose to insert a Cisco 350 card that I had laying
> around
> > since it was said to work out of the box.
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > Anyone have any experience with DSL running
> > wirelessly?  Suggestions?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Have you tried turning it off and back on again? Is
> > it definitely plugged in?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Seriously, that's not a lot of information to go on.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is is not detecting the WiFi interface(s)*?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is it detecting the interface but not any wireless
> > networks?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is it detecting but not joining wireless networks?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is it joining networks but not letting you assign an
> > address?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is it configuring an address but not passing traffic?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         Zach
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > *On a related note, the Intel 3945 is supported by
> iwlwifi,
> > which is in the mainline kernel since like 2.6.24, so
> it
> > probably works now even if it didn't before as long
> as
> > you've got a sufficiently new kernel.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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