Linksys WPC11 V3 configuration

Forum: Networking
Topic: Linksys WPC11 V3 configuration
started by: rogerh

Posted by rogerh on June 27 2005,01:18

I'm comfortable with Linux (mainly RedHat), but am a newbie with wireless networking, so go easy...

I am trying to get a Linksys WPC11 V3 card working in DSL 1.2

lsmod shows that the hermes, orinoco and orinoco_cs modules are loaded, so I am presuming it detected the card OK. dmesg also gives a MAC address and says the card has Station name "Prism I".

What do I do next?

The DSLpanel has buttons for Wlanconfig, Prism2 and Iwconfig, all of which allow wireless LAN settings to be configured. Which one should I use? I realize that Ndiswrapper is not involved, and I tried Prism2 first because that seemed the most specific, but none of them seemed to work.

Once I have wireless settings correct, do I also need to use Netcardconfig (presuming I want to use DHCP), or will it attempt to acquire an address automatically.

Thanks in anticipation.

Roger

Posted by rogerh on June 27 2005,02:45

Further investigation indicates that is probaby because the Access Point (a D-Link DI-624) is running "Shared Key" authentication rather than "Open System".

Does anyone know how to associate to the AP using this authentication scheme?

Also, does it make a difference whether I use iwconfig or wlanctl-ng to configure the settings?

Thanks

Roger

Posted by rogerh on June 27 2005,03:34

Yet more research identified the solution.

In case anyone searching these forums in the future is as confused as I was, I got this working with:

sudo iwconfig eth0 essid "My WLAN Name"
sudo iwconfig eth0 key restricted s:ascii_wep_key
[ Note that "restricted" forces it to Shared Key rather than Open System authentication, and "s:" allows you to use an ASCII password]
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo pump -i eth0
[ This is the DHCP client request, I wasn't familiar with this having used dhclient previously]

I hope this helps some future newbie!

Roger