Need help with wireless config.
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 7 00:49:27 UTC 2006
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I am still struggling with this wireless connection. In most cases
> system-config-network does a reasonable job of setting up configuration
> for me but I'm not sure what it's doing for "wireless?" The adapter
> card is plugged into a PCI slot but it keeps calling it eth1 or eth2, it
> looks to me like it ought to be wlan0?
>
> Wlassistant indicates it is having trouble with routing but I don't know
> what to enter there and there is no man page:
> wlassistant
> kbuildsycoca running...
> Loaded application options.
> DHCP Client: dhclient
> All executables found.
> iwconfig_status: /sbin/iwconfig
> ==>stderr: lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> Wireless interface(s): wlan0
> Permissions checked.
> ifconfig_status: /sbin/ifconfig wlan0
> scan: /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
> Networks found: 1
> Checking for active connection.
> Trying to get gateway address...
> ...from 'route'
> No default gateway.
> Checking for active connection.
> Trying to get gateway address...
> ...from 'route'
> No default gateway.
> Checking for active connection.
> Trying to get gateway address...
> ...from 'route'
> No default gateway.
>
>
> Iwconfig provides the following:
> iwconfig wlan0
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Auto
> Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54
> Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm RTS thr:2347 B
> Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> Route shows as follows:
> route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 10.1.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> default 10.1.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
> eth0
>
>
> I think I should be able to browse to 192.168.1.1 and see the router set
> up screen from this computer via the Linksys WMP54G adapter card.
> Wlassistant indicates that I have a good quality signal on channel 6.
> But iwconfig shows zero signal? I guess if I could satisfy the routing
> requirement it would begin to work.
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do next?
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
>
I spent a lot of time trying to get my Linksys WPC54Gv2 CardBus adapter
to work with ndiwsrapper in FC5. It works like a champ in Ubuntu Breezy
Badger without any special problems.
For FC5, one thing I found necessary was to download the WPC54Gv2
drivers from the ndiswrapper site - the ones on my CD would not work
properly with the current ndiswrapper. I found it did not matter
whether I used the FC5 ndiswrapper package or installed from the tarball.
I was only able to get it to work with no encryption. When I tried to
use WEP encryption, the machine froze when I entered the key.
I gave up. I finally purchased a refurbished madwifi-supported Netgear
WG511T CardBus adapter on e-bay for $15.50 bid plus $5.00 shipping. I
uninstalled ndiswrapper, installed madwifi, did a lot of incantations -
see a previous thread titled "Unable to get Atheros based drivers
working" - and eventually got the card configured properly and it is
working great now.
I was also given an Avaya 802.11b card (11Mbs) which just works when I
plug it in and do a simple config in system-network-config -t has native
Linux support. It was recognized on boot, designated eth1, and when I
set it up and activated it using my WEP configuration, it worked
immediately.
Both cards now work whenever I plug them in and use them.
Gerry
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