I have a dell 5100 with a dell 1150 wireless card. The card worked under Mandrake, but I cannot get it to work with Debian testing (2.6.7-2 kernel). Iwconfig produces:
eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Admin-Wireless" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXXXXXXXXXX
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Jeff,
Looks like the card is not connecting to the access point. Have you been successful conecting to ANY access point? If you are in Davis, you can head to just about any coffee shop and try:
iwconfig eth2 essid any <-- Or find out the network name, and capitalization matters. iwconfig eth2 key off dhclient eth2
ok, I finally got to the library which has an open system. Still no luck so it must be the card or OS. I put mandrake 10 on an open partition and will try it tomorrow. If that doesn't work the next step will be to load on windows. if that doesn't work then I know it is the card. what I do not understand is why the card would show up, but it will not connect.
ski
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