Wi-Fi configuration madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dazed_75]

On 10/21/07, Mike Storke <storkus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> NO, REALLY, I'M JUST ABOUT TO START PULLING MY HAIR OUT!!!!!
>
> Anyway, I just moved to Phoenix and can get internet access where I
> live via wireless only.  But I've never set up a wireless NIC and am
> having a nightmare with it, so I want to turn to all of you for help.
>
> Here are my relevant specs:
>
> Distro: Slackware 12
> Kernel: 2.6.23.1 (latest)
> NIC: Hawkins HWU8UB (the one with the dish) based on the ZyDIS 1211B
>      chip; it uses USB to connect.
> WLAN: Set up by "Air2Data" (web site www.air2data.com)
>
> I had bought from Fry's the Airlink 101 AWLL3028 USB dongle, but the
> chipset in it (Realtek RTL8187B, which reports itself as 8189) isn't
> supported yet, apparently.  So I returned it and bought this NIC, which
> has a chipset known to play well with Linux.
>
> So now it would seem I would have a working setup, as "iwlist scan"
> reports the networks just fine.  But, for some reason, I can't
> connect to anything.  Many iwconfig commands fail, and dhcpd times out.
> I've been searching the setup scripts, man pages, HOWTOs, but nothing.
> Clearly I'm missing something obvious because I don't see everyone else
> having this problem.
>
> Can any of you help?  Especially if you run Slack yourself?
>
> Mike
>

This does not solve your problem, but it would be extremely
interesting if you could boot an ubuntu 7.10 LiveCD and see if it
picks up your wireless.  Why?  Because that was one of the big pushes
for 7.10 which just came out last Thursday.  At least you might learn
without altering your system whether the whole setup can reasonably
work in Linux and go from there.  Let us know of course what happens
if you do it.

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