On Friday 29 July 2005 01:28 am, John Wilson wrote: > Well, I finally got the card to work in my laptop after some playing about > with ndiswrapper. I've about given up on madwifi even if it looks like it > makes life a whole lot easier when it gets loaded. But I'll keep hammering > away on that too. > > Now the issue is connecting to my router. I'm not getting an IP assigned, > which may not be a surprise when we get a bit further into this, actually. > > Part of me, though, is suspicious that I'm also in trouble because I'm > either very thick (a good possibility) or I'm just not getting it. > > To start with the load of ndiswrapper went well... > ******** > ndiswrapper version 1.0 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) > ndiswrapper: driver net5211 (,05/31/2003,2.4.0.71) added > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 > ndiswrapper: using irq 22 > wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:f5:61:56:dc using driver net5211 > wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"russell.johnshome.lan" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: > 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s > Encryption key:off > Link Quality:21/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > ******** > > or at least it appears to have. > > However at the configuration level I'm facing something I'm not altogether > sure of. Sorry for the pngs here. :) > > In snapshot1 there is some configuration to be done. The nearest thing I > can find after nearly endless searching on the net is the country code. > I'm not even sure it matches the router at the moment but I can fix that. > Outdoor and xchanmode have me baffled. > > In snapshot2 there are some more options and again I'm quite baffled as to > what I need and don't need. Later on there are questions about RTS/CTS and > other things which I am familiar with but haven't much of a clue about > what, if anything to do with them. > > One important thing I have noticed is that my card is listening on channel > 1 and I know the router is transmitting on channel 6. I'm not sure how to > change my card, either. > > Any and all help would be greatly appreciated as I'm bleeding from tearing > out my hair so much. :-) > > Thanks. > > ttfn > > John My experience with home network is that most of the stuff you mention is not critical to the function. I do see that you don't show a MAC for the router in wlan0. So take a look at /etc/sysconfig/ and see if there is a file ifconfg-wlan0. I can't remember if you have already gone through this. If not, create it and put the following with your network info in it instead of what I show. DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:90:4b:57:ea:5b ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Wireless MODE=Auto ESSID= CHANNEL=1 IPADDR= DOMAIN= NETMASK= USERCTRL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= IVP6INIT=no RATE=Auto DHCP_HOSTNAME= USERCTL=no I also have set mine up with static IP addresses instead of the auto with dhcp server. HTH
-- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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