On Wednesday 22 November 2006 23:56, Paul wrote:
Having recently spent vast sums on a brand new WiFi card (a netgear WG511T Atheros based card), I've been trying to connect to Norfolk's Openlink network. I appear to get a reasonable signal strength from within the Forum, and can detect three or more access points... However, dhcp refuses to pick up an address, and the hell desk is of little use.
Has anyone within the group been able to connect a Linux powered device to Openlink, and if so, what settings did you use ??
I've tried both madwifi and ndiswrapper drivers with a SuSE 10.0 install to no avail.
It works all right with my laptop. Its intel pro wireless and I use the ipw2200 driver (now part of the kernel, except the firmware).
My /etc/network/interfaces file has the following entry:
iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-essid Openlink
and then I just go:
# ifup eth1
and it gives me an IP address. Is this where its going wrong for you?
Then you have to accept the T&Cs by going to:
http://www.norfolkopenlink.co.uk/
This registers the IP address its given you on some database I expect which then allows you to make requests to the rest of the Internet.
Cheers, Richard