<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Forwarding this for my coworker Ben, if you can help please email bcain@ctcnet.org. Thanks! ...Karen
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<BR>I just recently installed redhat 7.3 on a Compaq Armada 7800 and am trying
<BR>to configure it for wireless access. Currently, when I run ifconfig from
<BR>the prompt, I get the following message:
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<BR>> ifconfig etho
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<BR>Warning : Device eth0 has been compiled with version 1
<BR>of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12.
<BR>Some things may be broken...
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<BR>eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"twctcnet"
<BR> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:40:96:00:D6:01
<BR> Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:0/ -105694560
<BR> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
<BR> Power Management:off
<BR> Link Quality:6/255 Signal level:38/100 Noise level:0/0
<BR> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
<BR> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:752 Missed beacon:0
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<BR>So it appears that the card is working, since it can get the correct MAC
<BR>address for the access point, but it cannot send/receive to it. It might be
<BR>a simple networking configuration problem, but I can't for the life of me
<BR>figure out how to configure the ip address. When I go to run the "Network
<BR>Configuration" program (I'm running Gnome) there are no devices installed.
<BR>I try to add a device (ie eth0), but it doesn't give me the option to add a
<BR>Wireless device (even though I've seen screenshots of redhat linux that
<BR>display the option to add a wireless device).
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<BR>Does anyone have any hints or suggestions? Are there ways to configure the
<BR>IP address through the shell? Replies are appreciated.
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<BR>Thanks,
<BR>Ben
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