[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[Terry]

On 12/27/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> >
>
> Show output from commands:
> # ifconfig
> &
> # iwconfig
>

Also see man pages for iwconfig, iwlist, iwpriv & iwspy

And if you have kwifimanager, look at that.

But mainly just look at ifconfig and iwconfig and see what needs to be
done / changed.
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