[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[Terry]

On 12/26/05, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to get wireless networking up and working on
> my son's new VAIO laptop.  Everything works using WinXP
> and my LinkSys Wireless-G router using DHCP - but I get
> "Network Unreachable" under Linux.
>
> Here is the setup:
>
> Sony VAIO PCG-782L - running SuSE 9.3.
> Wireless chip: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
>
> SuSE auto-detected the wireless chip, I configured
> all of the network stuff (I believe) correctly - but
> a 'ping' to any of my other computers just comes back
> with "Network Unreachable".
>
> I can see the driver is installed ('lsmod' shows that
> ipw2200 is installed and that 'firmware_class, ieee80211
> and ieee80211_crypt depend on it).
>
> When I open the device description in the SuSE
> Hardware Tool (aka suseplugger) it says;
>
> Status:
> Available    Yes
> Configured   No
>
> ...as far as I can tell, I *have* configured it using
> YaST - but perhaps that's not what it's talking about.
>
> Help!
>
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# ifconfig
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