Wireless Card on Fedora

**trickster** · 12-21-2003, 10:40 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to get my wireless card to work under Fedora, but I can't get it to communicate.

The card is a Blitzz NetWave BWP612. I am using a Netgear access point, set to allow only my mac address, and it has an Open (128bit) Wep key. It was set to not broadcast the SSID, but i read somewhere that the driver for this card does not support it, so it is now broadcasting it.

I followed the directions on this page: http://www.espina.info/papers/officeconnect/ , and it seems that the driver loads: The link and the lct lights come up. I see the card when I do ifconfig, but it does not get an ip through dhcp. if I do iwlist accesspoint, I see the macaddress of the accesspoint, so it makes me think it finds it and communicates with it.

If I do a dhclient eth1, it eventually times out.

I tried doing ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.9, but even though it gets it, i still can't ping the gatway or any other address.

Can anyone think of anything I may have missed?

**trickster** · 12-24-2003, 11:57 PM

Well, after a couple of days of work, and switching to Slackware (sorry Fedora...) I got this thing to work.

Now I just need to figure how to make it work on bootup...

Does anyone know what is the correct modules.conf syntax, for binding a nic to eth0 and another to eth1?

**trickster** · 12-25-2003, 02:00 AM

Reinstalled Fedora and got it working.

It seems that you have to assign it an ip address before doing any of the iwconfig things.

**Kernel_Killer** · 12-25-2003, 02:18 AM

Just a suggestion, go without broadcasting as much as possible. As long as the SSID is correct all should be good. No reason to have radio broadcast exiting your home.

**trickster** · 12-25-2003, 03:14 AM

Well, I read somewhere this driver needed broadcasting, but right now it is not broadcasting, and it works good, so I will leave it like this.

Thanks for the tip.