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,