[olug] Wireless Help

[Joe Catanzaro]

I'm setting up a wireless network, and so far things are going pretty good. 
I've got a PCI D-Link DWL-520+ card in a RH 7.3 box and a PCMCIA D-Link DWL 
650+ in a Windows laptop. The card in the Windows laptop appears to be 
working fine. I've tested it in two laptops and it comes up, etc. The card 
in the RH 7.3 box also comes up and attempts to "talk" to the laptop. 
STDOUT on my console show packets going out, and also being received, but 
nothing that will allow them to ping each other. I'm assuming there's 
something wrong on the RH box, but I don't know enough about Linux wireless 
to properly troubleshoot this. Also note, the RH box has another NIC that 
works great on my internal network and communicates properly with the 
laptop when I use a normal NIC in the laptop. And I'm guessing I'm going to 
eventually have to add a route on the RH box to point the wireless NIC to 
my firewall, but I'm assuming that won't affect my current problem. I'm 
currently working through a few HowTos and I'm not very impressed with 
them. Let me know if you have any suggestions for my problem or an 
excellent reference for Linux wireless.

Thanks,



Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net