almost have it working...

AP-Research HostAP-Research
Mon Oct 18 16:46:53 PDT 2004


<quote who="Matt Darnall">
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get my dlink dwl-520 rev e working with the hostap driver
> solution and fedora core 2. I am following this tutorial:
>
> http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/linux/dwl520e1.html
>
> and everything seems to work fine except and the end of the instructions
> it
> becomes vague about how to get a connection.
>
> So I am able to get all the way through the guide, I am just a little
> confused
> on what I have to do with the iwconfig command to get and maintain a
> network
> connection. I have experimented around a little bit like setting my ssid,
> encryption key and so forth and when I run "iwconfig wlan0" I see that
> most of
> the values are set right and that signal is like 6/70 but if I try to open
> the
> web browser or something i don't seem to have a connection.

What does `ifconfig wlan0` return?

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KC Ferguson CIO/CTO
@RescuNET.com




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