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
