[H-GEN] Getting a GN-WPEAG to work in SUSE 10.0

[Paul Cornford]

Hi,

I am trying to get a GN-WPEAG wireless card (AR5212 chipset) working in
my SuSE 10.0 box. Suse has picked up the card and iwconfig yields the
following:

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"cornford"  Nickname:"peach"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:3D:FB:6B:E4
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:A36F-F782-9B   Security mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I am not sure what all this means but the card works fine under win98
on the same machine. Under Suse, the power led is steady and the link
led winks on and off. All other settings are the same as those under
windows. But I cannot ping the access point. I have placed the
interface in the router's external zone and the AP (a D-Link router) is
accepting pings. So just some helpful hints would do.

Thanks.

Paul Cornford.