On July 29, 2005 06:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > 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
Hi Dennis, Thanks, btw. This is my ifconfig-wlan0 DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes USERCTL=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Auto WIRELESS_ESSID=yrr18itta3 DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.1 NEEDHOSTNAME=no PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=no PEERNTPD=no Now, I'm kinda assuming that the HWADDR shown here is of my card on my laptop. So where do you set the MAC for the router? I do know that so I need to know where to set it. Thanks again. ttfn John -- This communication is sent to you from a Microsoft free computer running Mandriva Linux 2005 LE. There are no virii, worms, spyware or other nasties in this email.
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