Networking :: Wireless newbie! Any easy instructions around?

Often you can type iwconfig to see if your wireless card is recognized and just needs to be configured. If you see "no wireless extensions" then it was not recognized out of the box. However it could still be only a boot paramter away, i.e., pci=assign-busses

Configuring the card can depend on the chipset and there are several GUI tools for that.

Thanks everyone. Very helpful as always.

I tried this Roberts....It looks like it can't see any wireless PCI card

There's a green light coming out of the card so it must be working

dsl@box:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:0kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/94 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Actually that is a good sign, you have an "out of the box" detected but unconfigured ath0.

That is exactly like mine. Using iwconfig gui changing eth0 to ath0 and specifying wep and essid works for me.

You should probably boot with nodhcp so that you don't have a pump (dhcp request hanging)

You still may have in irq conflict, but lets hope for the best.

You can use iwconfig commands or the gui, if using a wep key enter as colon separated pairs, i.e., 12:34:45:99:..

Some wireless card balk at the pump command and you must use a static ip. But lets hope that using iwconfig or its gui works for you.

Hey Robert. I am now typing this on wirless on DSL 3.4

Thanks I didn´t think I´d get it working to be honest. I used DHCP and it picked it up from the router.
Anyone - make sure you get an out of the box wireless card- they are only $20 now (mine was a linksys) and it saves *so* much hassle. Hoorah!

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