Re: Office Max $19 Microsoft adaptors

Okay, long story short, I finally got it working after upgrading my
laptop to Fedora 2.

So, any idea when we might be able to do Wireless Friday? I need to
learn about setting up security for wireless devices ASAP :) In
particular WEP and SSID. I imagine it's easy enough to change the
options on the basestation, but it's setting it up on the card in Linux
that i'm not so sure about.

Anyway, all seems to be working good now, except the fact I don't really
have any security set up. I'm afraid to touch any of the options on the
access point for fear of it all the sudden not working. Right now my
only security consists of my limiting access by MAC address and leaving
it turned off when I'm not using it.

Maybe I'll be able to figure out some more stuff later (like when it's
not 3:30 AM :) ) but I'd still be interested in getting some help at a
Friday Night thing. It's been forever since I've been there on Friday.

Justin

Jim wrote:
> Using Fedora 2. Did you configure the adaptor as a network device? I
> will admit that I used the Gui to do the basic config. Once it was
> recognized, I set it up as wlan0. I was able to enter most of the info.
> Most important is to make sure the ESSID is ok. Look in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Note that this fill is hard linked to
> two others on RedHatish systems:
>
> [root@mister sysconfig]# find . -name '*eth0' -print
> ./network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> ./networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
> ./networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
>
> so do NOT delete one, then replace it without fixing the links!
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Also, we might do a Friday on Wireless after I get out of this hell
> hole. Dee, wanna give it a go?
>
> Jim
>
>
> Justin Dieters wrote:
>
>>Jim, what distro/kernel are you using? Anything special you had to do to
>>get it to work?
>>
>>I'm using Redhat 9.0, kernel 2.4.20, and all I get is:
>>unsupported card in socket 0
>>product info: "Microsoft", "Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520", "", "1.0.3"
>>manfid: 0x02d2, 0x0001 function: 6 (network)
>>
>>The lights come on and everything, but I can't get anything from
>>ifconfig. I can do "modprobe orinoco_cs" just fine, no errors aside
>>from what's listed above.
>>
>>Justin
>>
>>
>>
>>Jim wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Risked the $19. The one I got has the Linux friendly Orinoco chip set.
>>>Might want to get em fast. They are all the way to the right on the
>>>discount table in the front of the store!
>>>
>>>J
>>>
>>>
>>>Jun 26 18:46:03 mister cardmgr[1133]: socket 1: Microsoft Wireless
>>>Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3
>>>Jun 26 18:46:04 mister cardmgr[1133]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs
>>>2>&1'
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Received on Wed Jun 30 03:36:39 2004