Arne

Hello Qchem,

In general I agree with you but not totally. I give one example.

Belkin made installer for Linux for the Rt2500 chip set long time ago.

Why didn't Mandriva customize this for 2006????????

I tried this but it didn't work because Mandriva have not done their part.

Secondly

Sourceforge have a project to make a general Belkin 7010 driver for rt2500 chip. In their wisdom they presented a beta 2 release in late December 2005 made for a kernel no less than 2.6.14. Why??? because at the moment 2006 latest kernel is 2.6.12-15. Is Mandriva to late on new kernels?????

By the way when installing Belkin card in win98SE I learn that the chip is not rt2500 but rt2560. I don't think that would have made much difference but we don't know, right???????

I am sure mdv could and should have done more.

Anyway thank's for your reply and the tip on linuxiant.

Hello Guys,

After several weeks struggle and great help from this forum and buying of 3 wireless cards and 2 access points I have given up getting my old Thinkpad to have a wireless Internet connection not to mention file- and printer sharing in Linux, mdv 2006.0.

I managed to get the card installed correctly but was not able to connect it to the access point and I tried 2 AP's.

I trow out 2006 and installed win98SE. I pop in the belkin CD-rom and run the installer and was told to insert the card and 2 min after I inserted the CD-rom I had a nice and fast wireless broadband connection which I use for this reply.

I find the 2006 a nightmare in wireless sense. You can use wiki, howto's and any other helping aid from people who has been successful in installation but it's not helpful when it doesn't work for you. Buying cards is pure lottery since the card manufacturer change the chip set and even with the right chip set it doesn't work.

So my advice to Mandriva is "get your act together and put down more resources and solve this main problem".

I still keep my 2006 on my desktop in dual boot with XP and wired LAN and Internet connection.

Hello Guys,

After several weeks struggle and great help from this forum and buying of 3 wireless cards and 2 access points I have given up getting my old Thinkpad to have a wireless Internet connection not to mention file- and printer sharing in Linux, mdv 2006.0.

I managed to get the card installed correctly but was not able to connect it to the access point and I tried 2 AP's.

I trow out 2006 and installed win98SE. I pop in the belkin CD-rom and run the installer and was told to insert the card and 2 min after I inserted the CD-rom I had a nice and fast wireless broadband connection which I use for this reply.

I find the 2006 a nightmare in wireless sense. You can use wiki, howto's and any other helping aid from people who has been successful in installation but it's not helpful when it doesn't work for you. Buying cards is pure lottery since the card manufacturer change the chip set and even with the right chip set it doesn't work.

So my advice to Mandriva is "get your act together and put down more resources and solve this main problem".

I still keep my 2006 on my desktop in dual boot with XP and wired LAN and Internet connection.

Ian,

and have to associate a static IP address.

How do i do that?? another alias or.......

The IP address for the wireless network is the AP's IP address, right????

I still have the option to install the card in XP since I have a pci pcmcia adapter on the desktop. Do you think it's worth the effort????????

What else should I try??????

This is a resume of what I have done since my last post. It also includes some important question I hope somebody can answer, I will appreciate it.

Syslog from my latest boot:

Feb 25 10:33:40 ast2 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.9 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)

Feb 25 10:33:40 ast2 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2 005, 3.90.36.0) loaded

Feb 25 10:33:40 ast2 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 9

Feb 25 10:33:40 ast2 kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:bf:d8:a5:64 using dr iver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318.5.conf

In order to scan all signals, not only 'linksys' I run this:

[root@ast2 arne]# iwconfig wlan0 essid any

[root@ast2 arne]# dhclient

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3

Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.

All rights reserved.

For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

 

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:14:bf:d8:a5:64

Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:14:bf:d8:a5:64

Sending on Socket/fallback

DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5

DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15

DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9

DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16

DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

No DHCPOFFERS received.

No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Can anybody explain the meaning of the 2 last lines ??? and further how to "wake it up" in a manner of speaking.

Then I followed some howto's

[root@ast2 arne]# ifdown wlan0

[root@ast2 arne]# ifup wlan0

 

Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.

The I looked into ifcfg-wlan0:

[root@ast2 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-wlan0

DEVICE=wlan0

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

Bootproto is a result of trying to use DCHCP to scan all signals.

Compared to:

[root@ast2 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0

BOOTPROTO=static

IPADDR=10.0.0.4

NETMASK=255.0.0.0

NETWORK=10.0.0.0

BROADCAST=10.255.255.255

ONBOOT=no

METRIC=10

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no

USERCTL=yes

IPV6INIT=no

IPV6TO4INIT=no

PEERDNS=yes

I am a little confused about the IP address I am looking for. In 'eth0' it is the notebook IP address used in a static BOOTPROTO. In wireless (ifcfg-wlan0) I feel we are looking for the AP's IP address. Further more if I use 'static' and enter notebook's IP address I am told that this IP address is already in use, which confirm my feeling.

Can somebody clarify if my feeling is right?????????

Based on this assumption my wireless card should be 'static' and can enter AP's IP address which I have set in the AP installation in XP. Further more I feel I should edit my 'ifcfg-wlan0' and add:

NETMASK=255.0.0.0

NETWORK=10.0.0.0

BROADCAST=10.255.255.255

and maybe more as in 'ifcfg-eth0' ?????

or...am I one wrong road here??????

I have read many places that some card's will need a keyboard button to be pressed, Is this still true including pcmcia/cardbus card or is this only for built in wireless chip's ???????

Iwconfig do not change as a result of running 'iwconfig wlan0 essid 'linksys'

I just check again and the firewall is off.

It's very simple. I keept the driver for the Belkin card since I believe ndiswrapper can have several drivers and load the one the inserted card need.

But maybe that can not be several wireless drivers?????

So this time I run 'NT' driver files namely:

bcmwl5.sys LSBCMNDS.cat LSBCMNDS.inf

First I reboot then I run exactly the same procedure and get the same output as last time. When I come to syslog and dmesg it reports:

ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded

PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64

ndiswrapper: using irq 9

wlan0: vendor: ''

wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:bf:d8:a5:64 using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318.5.conf

wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK

wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

Looks nice I think

But this look the same as before:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00

Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 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

and this do NOT change anything in iwconfig.

[root@ast2 mnt]# iwconfig wlan0 essid 'linksys'

[root@ast2 mnt]# iwlist wlan0 scan

wlan0 No scan results

Neither do this:

[root@ast2 mnt]# ifconfig wlan0 up

Remains only the missed beacon so what can I do to get it???????

I just did

rpm -qa ndiswrapper

and get NO respons???????

But I can use ndiswrapper?????

Her it goes with 9x inf, sys, cat files from the CD rom

[root@ast2 arne]# modprobe ndiswrapper

[root@ast2 arne]# ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5

Driver bcmwl5 is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers

[root@ast2 arne]# ndiswrapper -l

Installed drivers:

bcmwl5a driver installed

rt2500 driver installed

[root@ast2 arne]# ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5a

[root@ast2 arne]# ndiswrapper -l

Installed drivers:

rt2500 driver installed

[root@ast2 arne]# cd linksys/cdrom

[root@ast2 cdrom]# ls

bcmwl5.sys* LSBCMNDS.cat* LSBCMNDS.inf*

[root@ast2 cdrom]# ndiswrapper -i LSBCMNDS.inf

Installing lsbcmnds

Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

 

[root@ast2 cdrom]# cd /etc/ndiswrapper

[root@ast2 ndiswrapper]# ls

lsbcmnds/ rt2500/

 

[root@ast2 ndiswrapper]# cd lsbcmnds/

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# ls

14E4:4318:1737:0048.5.conf 14E4:4320:1737:0049.5.conf 14E4:4320.5.conf lsbcmnds.inf

14E4:4318.5.conf 14E4:4320:1737:4320.5.conf bcmwl5.sys

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# ndiswrapper -l

Installed drivers:

lsbcmnds driver installed, hardware present

rt2500 driver installed

 

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# ndiswrapper -m

Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# depmod -a

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# modprobe ndiswrapper

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# dmesg

ndiswrapper version 1.9 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)

ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:111): loadndiswrapper failed (59904); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

What is the this "preempt=no,smp=no" telling me???

tail -100 /var/log/syslog shows just the same message and for obvious reason no show of

'wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:.............'

This message ...(load_wrap_driver:111)..... started the first time I installed the acer-driver. Before that it loaded the right driver and confirmed with 'ndiswrapper: driver ' ' LSBCMNDS ' ' loaded'

No "iwconfig" show of 'wlan0'

This time I used 9x files (inf. sys. and cat files) which I assume is win98 drivers.

I still thinking about what I said in my last reply yesterday that my 2006 has to be reinstalled because it seems my notebook is still 'locked up' in the Acer driver in some way.

When I install a new driver I use 'ndiswrapper -e <driver> to delete the old one before installing the new driver. I believe this is correct.

I need to clarify what is the right time to insert the card. In the XP manual both for this card and the previous Belkin card it a strong warning NOT to insert the card before you have installed the driver. It maybe different in linux, I just want to be sure???

Further more does it matter if the wired Ethernet card is inserted during wireless installation??

In my next reply I will show what happen when I use the NT driver which I had best result from, and this time I don't enter the card before I run 'ndiswrapper -l'.

Ian, first I want to say sorry for the double posting yesterday.

I dont know why this happen but my internet connection sometimes get hik ups and then the double ting happen.

Then to issue on hand. Yes I will go bak to CD rom files and start again, and I will post every output back.

During the previous struggling I have lost every ability to change card and get the wired connection back to the notebook, maybe I have to reinstall 2006. And it might have an impact on what we are trying to achieve. Have you experienced or heard of something like this????

After struggling with the browser I managed to download the files from Acer.

The files has 2 inf files, bcmwl5a for winp98 and bcmwl5 for winXP2k. the same goes for sys files and cat files.

First I tried winxp2k files without the cat file present. No luck

Then I tried win98 files ------------"------------------

-----------"---------------- with the cat file present. No luck

Looking in syslog this section repeats it self:

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug.

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 9

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:0092]

Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions

Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI

Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI

Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62

Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0 probing PCI interrupt failed, trying to fix

Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0 no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.

Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 0

Socket status: 30000006

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug.

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 9

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 9

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.1 -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:0092]

Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI

Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI

Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62

Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1 probing PCI interrupt failed, trying to fix

Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1 no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.

Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 0

Socket status: 30000020

Does this means that:

BIOS bug preventing the wireless driver to load successfully or that this driver is not compatible with my BIOS??

I had better result with drivers on the CD rom following the card even though I was not able to get it all the way to work. At that time the cat file was not available when I issued the ndiswrapper -i filename.inf. I was able to get wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:.......... written in system log. With this driver it simply do not happen.

Please I need advice.

Both opera and Konqueror cannot connect to this website.

Qchem,

Please tell me how you did this search. You did it in wiki or linux google search? I have not registered in wiki so maybe this is the reason i din't find 11.

Ian,

Yes it fits exactly but I cannot get to this acer web site.

Ian this file is for version 4 and not v.3 and have a different lspci = pciid: 17fe:2220 and have this chipset Chipset: AirConn? IPROCOMM IPN 2220 (rev 01).

Just to clarify

The card linksys WPC54G v3 which have a Broadcom BCM4318 chip.

The AP is a linksys WAP54G the chip I have not checked since it's not important.

I have checked the wiki but I didn't find the exe-file you find. So where did you find it?? Ian.

In my first post on this tread I wrote down lspci -n = 05:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 2) Both of you should have seen it. I searched the wiki with this info but didn't find it. Thats why I very much like to know where Ian find it.

Ian this file is for version 4 and not v.3 and have a different lspci = pciid: 17fe:2220 and have this chipset Chipset: AirConn? IPROCOMM IPN 2220 (rev 01).

Ian this file is for version 4 and not v.3 and have a different lspci = pciid: 17fe:2220 and have this chipset Chipset: AirConn? IPROCOMM IPN 2220 (rev 01).

Ian this file is for version 4 and not v.3 and have a different lspci = pciid: 17fe:2220 and have this chipset Chipset: AirConn? IPROCOMM IPN 2220 (rev 01).

Yes we did but it's not available for this card

I have only 2 options

9x directory what ever that means

NT direktory probably from microsoft but actally dont know what it means.

Linksys website dont give any other info

Anyway I have tried both.

I deleted the 9x drivers and installed the NT info and sys files.

The result is the same and in the end run 'ifconfig wlan0 up'

but No link beat detected.

The whole ting look like ra0 problem I had before.

Since I actually have a pci adapter on my desktop where I have XP maybe I can try to configure the card with the installation CDrom that come with the card. Any tip on that?????

In /etc/ndiswrapper/ I have 5 different 'conf' files. They have the same size but different names. Could it be an error her???

I am looking around and wondering what is wrong.

Could it be my old notebook from 1999 not able to handle the wireless???

I have NT inf and sys files I can try instead of the 9x series I have tried

Thank's both of you, it's night here and I go to sleep.

Sorry that was stupid.

When I issue

iwconfig wlan0 essid 'linksys' the light start blinking and continue to blink once in a while. That didn't happen before.

The scan on the other hand gives 'no scan result'

The blinking indicate traffic

Ian,

Done like this:

Device name: linksys WAP54G (default)

Password: *********************

Network: static IP

IP address: 10.0.0.6

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 (default)

Default gateway: 10.0.0.2 (routers IP address)

SSID: linksys (default)

Network mode: G-only (my card is G card)

Security setting: disabled

I put the card into the notebook where ndiswrapper is active.

I ping 10.0.0.4 (notebook) and 10.0.0.2 (router) and 10.0.0.6 (AP) and finally 10.0.0.8 (desktop) and get

Network is unreachable.

Detection mode in syslog is SIOCETHTOOL. is this the correct one? is it other modes to try?

iwlist wlan0 scan after iwconfig wlan essid 'ESSID" gives

wlan0 No scan results

I don't get it, whats missing????

Ian,

No the AP has not been configured and the desktop don't have wireless.

I was thinking about configuring the AP from the desktop and this configuration to be used on the notebook where I only have linux.

Here is the one you ask for and it's fine right?

[root@ast2 arne]# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper 169460 0

usbcore 100572 4 usb_storage,ndiswrapper,uhci_hcd

It is the desktop I have dual boot with XP. Maybe only to install the basic broadcasting SSID should be possible to do on XP. What do you think?????

Hello Guys,

Second try to setup wireles internet connection.

I used wiki howto and her is some output I believe confirm everything is OK as far as it goes.

I used the inf and sys file on the cd rom for win9x. This time I only put in the card just before I issued

"modprobe -l"

My remaining problem in short is I cannot get contact with the AP. The howto says it can be ether or one of: "the radio is turned off on the card or the AP is not broadcast SSID".

The reason I bought the new AP was that the previous one was a Travel router with AP mode which likely do not send SSID broadcast . The hope was that the new one in default mode was broadcast SSID. That do not seem's to be the case and this only confirm my lack of luck.

dmesg shows:

ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded

PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64

ndiswrapper: using irq 9

wlan0: vendor: ''

wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:bf:d8:a5:64 using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318.5.conf

wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK

wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

And syslog shows:

Feb 21 09:51:01 ast2 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded

Feb 21 09:51:01 ast2 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)

Feb 21 09:51:01 ast2 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9

Feb 21 09:51:01 ast2 kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64

Feb 21 09:51:01 ast2 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 9

Feb 21 09:51:02 ast2 kernel: wlan0: vendor: ''

Feb 21 09:51:02 ast2 kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:bf:d8:a5:64 using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318.5.conf

Feb 21 09:51:02 ast2 kernel: wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK

Feb 21 09:51:03 ast2 ifplugd(wlan0)[4143]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing.

Feb 21 09:51:03 ast2 ifplugd(wlan0)[4143]: Using interface wlan0/00:14:BF:D8:A5:64

Feb 21 09:51:03 ast2 ifplugd(wlan0)[4143]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL

Feb 21 09:51:03 ast2 ifplugd(wlan0)[4143]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.

Feb 21 09:51:03 ast2 hal.dev[4145]: DEVNAME is not set

And iwconfig shows:

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

 

sit0 no wireless extensions.

 

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00

Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 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

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# iwlist wlan0 scan

wlan0 No scan results

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# iwconfig wlan0 essid 'ESSID'

[root@ast2 lsbcmnds]# iwlist wlan0 scan

wlan0 No scan results

Since I have xp in dual boot on the desktop I could perhaps run the setup on the AP and start the broadcasting og SSID, but if the radio in the bus card is off this will not help. Since I have tried with 2 different AP's it maybe is the radio turned of thing. Wiki have no advise on this as far as I can see.

One thing I have not done is to setup the lan connection 'wlan0' since I believe ndiswrapper have done that already.

In this country its almost impossible to return something like card and AP so this adventure start to become expensive so I really cross my fingers now.

Any tip/advise to help

The broadcom chip is

Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 802.11/g Wireless LAN pciid: 14e4:4318

and the pciid is:

05:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)