RE: WIFI

My SMS card uses the orinoco_cs drivers and is recognized as a Intersil
PRISM2 11Mbps Wireless Adapter.

What do you call a wireless hub? I have had very bad experience with WAP
router working here in China and can't find out why. A friend has been
having the same problems with different brands as well. The WAP router just
won't be stable, will lose connection and so on. So since I had both, WAP
and WAP router, I switch to a configuration using a PC as a router and my
WAP connected to it. Works perfectly. Windows station do sometimes lose the
connection and won't reconnect for let's say 20 minutes (!!!!!) but Mac
works seamlessly (much better than the IBM running Windows - in term of
hooking up to the wireless LAN).
Configuration is by far easier on the IBM, especially with their supplied
IBM connection manager - any equivalent in the Linux world? The MAC
interface is a bit confusing  but after trying all the possibilities you end
up finding your way.

Back to that IBM connection manager, it is really a great tools when using
many different network setup (from one place to another, friends, labs,
work, etc) and remembering either specific IP or Network interface used. And
then you just switch from one profile to the next so easily! So if anyone
know a replacement for non-IBM machines I'd love to hear it.

So that's for me.

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: blug-tech-bounces-+qp3TudyjKPvfBIPTTProkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
[mailto:blug-tech-bounces-+qp3TudyjKPvfBIPTTProkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Michel Lens
Sent: Thursday 15 April, 2004 13:01
To: [email protected]; Beijing LUG technical questions and assistance -
Publicly posted
Subject: Re: [blug-tech] WEP problem on Mandrake


Hi guys,

Yeah, would like to know which wireless cards you are all using.  I plan to
go down to Zhongguancun to buy the whole range, wireless hub, 2 wifi cards
for desktops and 1 wifi card for laptop.

>From a previous post I learned that the Lucent Orinoco Gold PCMCIA is a
good buy.  But what about cards for desktops,... and of course the wireless
hub?

Oh, and please, PLEASE, DON'T even dare to mention Windows.  I couldn't care
less what works or doesn't work in Windows.  I like to see Red
(Hat) and not Blue (screen of death) :-)

I am using Fedora Core 1.

Great to see Frederic and Richard are talking Linux again :-)

Thanks in advance.

Michel

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:39, Richard Ford wrote:
> Have you tried editing the if-config-??? file manually?
> 
> Here is a copy of mine....
> 
> 
> STARTMODE=hotplug
> DEVICE=ath0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> WIRELESS=yes
> MODE=Managed
> ESSID=*****************
> CHANNEL=**
> KEY=*****************
> 
> I employ good wifi practices:
> 
> SSID Broadcast off.
> WEP on.
> Non-stanrd ssid name and channel.
> And MAC address filtering in the router to only allow authorised cards 
> to connect. non standard internal IP address range
> 
> The only bad thing I do is use DHCP - which advertises my "obscure" IP 
> range (if they could break the mac filtering and wep and discover the 
> hidden essid).
> 
> RF.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:34, Paiato Matteo wrote:
> > And you are thinking to just to say :'I'm using Mandrake 10 on my
> > wireless LAN" without give more info on this!!!!!! :-)
> > Come on, tell us the full story... wich card are u using? it was 
> > automatically configured or you did some hack to make it working? I 
> > think a lot of Penguins are interested in this, even if WEP is 
> > disabled.
> > Ciao
> > 
> > Matteo
> > 
> > On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I am using Mandrake 10 on my wireless LAN. Everything is working 
> > > fine
> > > when
> > > WEP encryption is disabled. Though enabling encryption just does not 
> > > work
> > > for me. I guess I might be entering the key in a wrong format since 
> > > through
> > > the Mandrake Control Center the Encryption box does not specify any 
> > > format.
> > > I did some research online (a bit) and could not come up with any fix 
> > > yet.
> > > Also tried wlcardconfig but it comes up with a error message even 
> > > before
> > > starting to configure anything.
> > >
> > > Anyone with similar problem who managed to get it resolved?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Fred
> > >
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