Linux RH9 and Orinoco wireless 802.11b card
Steve
steve at stevehauck.com
Sun May 11 07:52:58 EDT 2003
I recently installed Red Hat 9 on my laptop in an effort begin
learning about Linux. My installation went well but I'm having trouble
config. my wireless card to access my Local network.
I began by booting RH 9 which goes directly into the GUI and the
accessing the network configuration "wizard". I entered "new" and
"wireless connection".
Of the options for different wireless cards I selected the one listed
as "Lucent, orinoco, and Prism II-based PCMCIA wireless (etho)"
(next screen) Mode, I chose the default "mode". Now here's something
interesting in the network name (SSID) there is a "specified" network
called "Michael" I know that this is a network belonging to a neighbor
(no WEP by the way) My network is called Steve (WEP). So I changed
the SSID to my network and entered my hexadecimal password where it
called for "Key). I notice that since I have specified "managed" in
the "mode" field the "Channel" field is shaded and indicates "1". My
network is on channel 10 according to my router?
I have dhcp set for automatic and DNS as automatic.
Now that this is completed I am back to the original network config
screen and enter "activate".
A screen indicates that it is activating the device eth0.........
I reveive the error message:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A)
SET failed on device eth0...iptables: No chain/target/match by that
name failed.
iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)
I did go back and tried changing "managed" to "specified" and changing
the channel to 10 but no luck.
I have also tried changing to "Ad-Hoc" with no luck.
It appears that the card is functional and I'm just missing some
detail. I am totally new to Linux and would appreciated any
suggestions.
shauck
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