I'm having trouble building a wireless network. In my Win XP -world (this PC is a dual boot with Win XP and mandriva 2006) the network is up and running. The network consists of two PCs with Planet WL-8310 PCI cards in both of them. Then there is Siemens Speedstream 6515 wireless ADSL modem that acts as an AP for the network.
The network's IPs are configured static: AP is 192.168.245.245 and the PCs are 192.168.245.1 and .2. I've given the AP all the MAC numbers in my network and the network is protected with open 128 bit WEP key.
I have installed Mandriva 2006 in my "main" PC as a dual boot (LILO) with XP on the "other side". And in my Mandriva I have installed madwifi as the Planet PCI card requires it.
I can see the AP over the network even though the ESSID is hidden and I need to give the WEP key to connect. I would think that I've configured the network OK, but no... I cannot ping any other IP than the host PCs IP (not even the gateway IP). And of course no access to the internet. What am I missing here? :unsure:
I'm not sure this has anything to do with my connection problem, but it's an annoyance. At the start-up I always need to key this in as a root before I can get the ath0 (my wifi) to get connected:
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
This even though, I have added this line in to the /etc/modprobe.conf (as per madwifi instructions).
I've followed Streeters instructions (in the pinned post) but to no avail.
It's a real pain switching between Win and Linux in order to connect to the internet just to find solution to my problems...
Oh, one thing: I tried to connect to wireless network (drakroam) which it doesn't seem to find most of the time (and sometimes it does...) and when I do it directly as a root from the console, it shows the following info
[root@Joni ~]# drakroam
SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported
SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported
Warning: Driver for device sl0 has been compiled with an ancient version
of Wireless Extension, while this program support version 11 and later.
Some things may be broken...
sl0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
[root@Joni ~]#
What is this mysterious sl0? I've tried to kill it through MCC, but it still seems to hang in there. This following is something I grabbed while in MCC.
18:45:22 net_applet[7273]: running: /sbin/iwgetid -r sl0
18:45:22 net_applet[7273]: running: /sbin/iwgetid -r -a sl0
18:45:22 net_applet[7273]: running: /sbin/iwlist sl0 scanning
18:45:26 net_applet[7273]: launched command: /usr/sbin/usernetctl sl0 report
18:45:26 net_applet[7273]: running: kdesu --ignorebutton -c /sbin/ifdown sl0
18:45:31 net_applet[7273]: running: /sbin/iwgetid -r sl0
18:45:31 net_applet[7273]: running: /sbin/iwgetid -r -a sl0
18:45:31 net_applet[7273]: running: /sbin/iwlist sl0 scanning
Any help to a newby is appreciated!
-edit-
typo
