[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless on a Sony VAIO

[Terry]

On 12/27/05, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> Terry 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
>
> The machine has a wired ethernet device as well as the wireless port -
> but it was disabled (via YaST) for this test:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> % ifconfig -a
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:4A:C3:50:C2
>            BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:4188 (4.0 Kb)  TX bytes:4188 (4.0 Kb)
>
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>            NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> % iwconfig
>
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0      no wireless extensions.

"no wireless extensions" indicates that you do not have the proper
driver software running.