netsoul

So what would be an alternative to MDK for home workstation then?

Thanks for the reply, however I am not member of the Mandrake club. Is there an open source for that? BTW, can I become the member of the Mandrakeclub free of charge?

Hi All! Could somebody explain what is going on when one changes the security level in the Mandrake Security Center? I mean what scripts are executed/how to do that in command line? Also - I have troules pinging a site and establishing a PPTP VPN connection when my security level is in Standard. Only Poor selection allows for it. How to fix it? IP tables is not installed - what guards this? Thank you.

Well, it finally worked but in a little bit strange way. I removed the ndiswrapper and installed the acx100 drivers (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/)/ It was all the same - installed fine, but when time came to ping - "host unreachble". I turned off WEP and turned it on back - nope. I ifuped and ifdoned and on a tenth or twentieth itiration in worked! I still can not understand why because I didn't do any chages during last 3-5 ifup/ifdown iterations. So now I'll have to understand why it happened and to check if it will still work after reboot. Thanks for you help.

OK. Removed everything, re-installed everything. The same thing :-( What I notete however - the PWR light is on, but the data transmission is on ONLY once as the card is detected or when I remove/insert the card. Then I see the PWD led only. BUT, when I remove ndiswrapper from the memory it starts blinking as if it sends data... That's pretty wierd. I can't understand what's up.

I built the ndiswrapper from the source using the latest version. I didn't use the version that was shiiped with the distro.

Ooops... You are right. It's there ;-( What should I do? Uninstall and do all over again? How to better do that?

Thanks for quck response. I followed the instructions on the Wiki page and I checked the presence of the the ndiswrapper before the installation - and it was NOT installed. As to the reuter - it is D-Link DI-604, AP - D-Link DWL-900AP+. I'll try to play without encryption. P.S. I also would like to note that originally I set 'key restricted XXXX-XXXX-XX' but in that case it even did not recognize the AP (the hw address was 00:00:00.... and SSID was "any")

Hi guys, I am fighting with mandrake 10.1 and D-Link DWL-650+ on Toshiba laptop. I exactly followed the instructions on the project's site - it compiled and installed successfully. But it doesn't work - no ping - it says "destination host unreachable" - looks like there is a routing problem or what? No firewall is installed. I assigned IP. but can not ping to my router. Any ideas what I dod wrong? When I look at mandrake's Control Center's Monitor Connections section it says "not connected". Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Here are my settings: ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:16:DC:A5 inet addr:192.168.20.3 Bcast:192.168.20.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::280:c8ff:fe16:dca5/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4074 (3.9 Kb) Memory:21010000-21010fff iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Netsoul" Nickname:"LinSoul-Laptop" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432GHz Access Point: 00:40:05:57:1C:08 Bit Rate=22Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=4096 B Fragment thr=4095 B Encryption key:0837-8378-3783-77 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:5 Invalid misc:5 Missed beacon:0 route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.20.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 0.0.0.0 192.168.20.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0 cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=LinSoul-Laptop NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.20.1 GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 Ping to local host is OK.

Well, I'm done here, then. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the help anyway!

Well, I don't use DHCP on the access point... Don't know if it's worth trying.

Sure I did. But I even can not reach nearby computers and my router. Outside world is also unreachable... Pretty strange situation. It seems that something very obvious and simple is missiong but where? :unsure:

It is off. I suspect that there is a problem with routing. As minimum I do not see there localhost default entry - so maybe it screwd up. Care to look at the route -n output earlier in my post? Thanks.

You are right - something happened, but I meant that I still can not ping my router or a nearby PC - "destination host unreachable", however al IP settings are OK and I can ping my localhost.

So, I did it but nothing happened: wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Netsoul" Nickname:"LinSoul-Laptop" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432GHz Access Point: 00:40:05:57:1C:08 Bit Rate=22Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=4096 B Fragment thr=4095 B Encryption key:0837-8378-3783-77 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:5 Invalid misc:5 Missed beacon:0