Hi Nate, Andy, and other debian-laptop users,I reinstalled debian woody this weekend (I turned off encryption on the RG-1000 before installation) and during installation my orinoco gold card lit up, and I got a message during the network configuration stage of the installation that my network had been successfully set up. The card lights up when I boot, and stays lit up when I log into gnome, but I can't connect to the internet when I run galeon or any other internet application. When I run iwconfig eth1, the correct essid and nickname are displayed. I've edited /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts with what I believe are the correct values (after deleting the specified four lines as instructed in that file to activate the wireless schemes). The values I've entered are:
ESSID = "1ecb13" (network name required by the RG-1000) MODE = "Managed" RATE = "11M" CHANNEL = "10"For now I've commented out the encryption key setting, since I've turned encryption off.
I've been hammering at this off and on for a few weeks, and am starting to think that maybe debian is a bit advanced for me, and that I should try a commercial distro.
Thanks in advance for any advice. Tim Nate Duehr wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:59:44PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote:The orinoco gold card is about a year old now, and it worked with Xandros, a commercial distro based on debian woody.That's a good sign. :-) I would definitely start by turning off the encryption on the RG-1000 temporarily to see if you can get a "normal" connection going, then turn it back on using the method mentioned where you can define a hex WEP key directly in the RG-1000. Once you do that, you can define the WEP key in hex on the Linux boxes, and other clients and you'll be all up and runnin'. Have fun,