Linux RH9 and Orinoco wireless 802.11b card

[wizard at neonedge.com (Wizard)]

iptables/ipchains is your firewall. I honestly don't know much about it
because I haven't played with it, but it looks to me like your firewall is
configured in a way that interferes with your wireless network. Take a look
at the documentation for iptables, and see if there is anything that offers
that sort of error message. It may be as simple as allowing access from that
network.
Grant M.


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:53 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Linux RH9 and Orinoco wireless 802.11b card
Importance: Low


  I recently installed Red Hat 9 on my laptop in an effort begin learning
about Linux. My installation went well but I'm having trouble config. my
wireless card to access my Local network.

  I began by booting RH 9 which goes directly into the GUI and the accessing
the network configuration "wizard". I entered "new" and "wireless
connection".

  Of the options for different wireless cards I selected the one listed as
"Lucent, orinoco, and Prism II-based PCMCIA wireless (etho)"

  (next screen) Mode, I chose the default "mode". Now here's something
interesting in the network name (SSID) there is a "specified" network called
"Michael" I know that this is a network belonging to a neighbor (no WEP by
the way) My network is called Steve (WEP). So I changed the SSID to my
network and entered my hexadecimal password where it called for "Key). I
notice that since I have specified "managed" in the "mode" field the
"Channel" field is shaded and indicates "1". My network is on channel 10
according to my router?

  I have dhcp set for automatic and DNS as automatic.

  Now that this is completed I am back to the original network config screen
and enter "activate".

  A screen indicates that it is activating the device eth0.........

  I reveive the error message:

  Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A)
  SET failed on device eth0...iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
failed.
  iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)

  I did go back and tried changing "managed" to "specified" and changing the
channel to 10 but no luck.

  I have also tried changing to "Ad-Hoc" with no luck.

  It appears that the card is functional and I'm just missing some detail. I
am totally new to Linux and would appreciated any suggestions.

  shauck

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