Wireless Help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

I've got FC2 running on a Dell Latitude and just got a Linksys
wireless card for it.  I can't get the computer to talk to my
Linksys wireless router

I've installed ndiswrapper 1.6 and it seems to be working OK.

basic commands as going through the setup are:

ndiswrapper -l
net8180 driver present, hardware present

modprobe ndiswrapper
nothing displayed

dmesg
ndiswrapper: version 1.6 loaded

The lights are on as they should be


iwconfig
two warnings
1 - driver for device wlan0 has been complied with version 17 of
wireless extension, while this program is using version 16.  Some
things may be broken....

2 - Driver for device wlan0 recommended version 18 of wireless
extension, buthas been compoied with version 17, theefore some
driver features may not be available...

wlan0 -- this looks good,
ESSID is correct for my system
Mode:Managed
Frequency and Access point look good
Link Quality 100/100
Signal level -61dBm
Noise level -256 dBm

iwlist wlan0 scan finds my router OK Mode is Managed and
Encryption key is off. Quality here is 0/100

ifconfig wlan0 up returns nothing


dhclient wlan0 - does a lot of things and ends up with
No DHCPOFFERS received
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
/sbin/dchlient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found

then it says to put ndiswrapper in the /etc/modules file but I
don't have that file on my machine, should I just add it?

When I ping my router I get the message
connect:Network is unreachable

OK for the router side.
Very simple setup. The only security is a wireless MAC filter and
even with that off I can't talk.

Yesterday, my notebook MAC address was showing up on the "ACTIVE"
list, now it's not.


So two things - I can't get my install saved and for some reason
I can't get on the network.

It may be my warnings but so far I haven't figured out what they
mean or how to fix them.

Any suggestions?


Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

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