mystified

I set up my printer. All went well and then I tried to use it today. It couldn't find it. So I deleted it from mcc and tried to add it again and it can't detect a printer at all. Obviously I need a printer so any suggestions would be appreciated.

It's a HP 3520, which is well support, uses a usb port.

Ok, I compiled ndiswrapper from source and followed the directions. Everything seemed to go well when I ran ifconfig -a. It came up with eth0 which had an internal ip address, lo, sit0 and wlan0. But when I tried running alias wlan0 ndiswrapper I get

alias ndiswrapper not found and wlan0 not found

It did find the driver and it was installed. eth0 is my direct cable connection, wlan0 is my wireless. Here's the output from wlan0 -

wlan0	 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:CE:13:E2:08
	  inet6 addr: fe80::216:ceff:fe13:e208/64 Scope:Link
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
	  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:90 (90.0 b)
	  Interrupt:17 Memory:e2000000-e2002000

What next?

Yes I know the chipset. I'm going to have to review everything and then work on it. But between school and work it'll probably have to wait until Sunday when I have a day off. I really appreciate all the info. One thing I'm not sure of tho and maybe it was covered and I missed it is how to set up WEP with my encryption key.

Thanks ian. I'm sure I'll get lost somewhere but I'll give it a try. :)

As you guys know I've been having fits with mandriva's wireless connection tools. Being a Gentoo user I set up my internet connection manually and I always have well documented wiki's to follow and get step by step instructions from. But I've googled and all I can find are the gui tools for mandriva which are obviously buggy.

So can anybody tell me how to set up wireless in mandriva, using ndiswrapper, manually? I am determined to get this working. Thanks for your patience! :)

mysti

One note on dillo. I had to install it for someone else one time. It does not support ssl by default. You have to compile it in.

I posted this one a couple of months ago. It's my gentoo one. If you look at my karamba theme you'll see my cpu usage is way up because I'm compiling kde pim atm.

This is my plain Mandriva laptop one. Altho I do think my Godux tux is cute. :P

You haven't seen minimalistic until you've looked at my desktops! :D

Ok, forget Ubuntu. Forget wireless. I'm now using cable plugged directly into the lappy (it sits on top of my desk anyway) so I can deal with it. :P

I just wanted to say thanks guys. I tried what was suggested with no luck. So I'm going to give Ubuntu a shot and see if it works better. If not I'm back to square one.

How hard is it to set up wireless in Ubuntu using ndiswrapper? (Using WEP)

I've never read that before arctic.

Compiling packages from source is easier than in any other distro, opposed to Mandriva's "almost broken" devel packages.

I have to disagree with you there. I don't think there's a better distro at compiling from source than Gentoo. And yes I have used Slackware.

Ok, no connection without encryption. But I'm no longer getting the ndiswrapper error when I shut down. My Nic is a Broadcom BCM438 (Air Force one 54g) 802.11g Wireless Lan controller. The version of ndiswrapper is 1.2.3mdk. I'm using Mandriva 2006 (which seems to be buggy btw). BCMWL5A is my windows driver and yes I can connect in Windows.

I reconfigured and rebooted.

Yes it's set to 128 bit encryption. I'll try switching to 64 bit and see if that helps. Thanks!

Edit: Nope, didn't work.

I had set up WEP on my laptop and it was working, then it stopped then I got it working again and now it's not working AGAIN.

I'm getting this message at shutdown

shutting down wlan0, ndiswrapper  (add_wep_key:711) - adding encryption key 1 failed C0010015

I've double checked my encryption key and it's correct.

Suggestions before I switch distros?

Thanks paul! No more error message.

I'm not sure what changed but I'm getting the following error when I try to start ssh.

gentoo mystified # /etc/init.d/sshd restart
* Stopping sshd ...													  [ ok ]
ldap_simple_bind_s(): Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
[LDAP] could not initialize ldap connection
* Starting sshd ...
ldap_simple_bind_s(): Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
[LDAP] could not initialize ldap connection							   [ ok ]

I posted this on the gentoo board and someone told me to start my ldap server. I did, got the same error and it caused my cpu to run at 100%.

any suggestions?

I tried out a new network card in my computer and it didn't work. So I reinstalled the old one. Unfortunately it's not detecting it like it did before and installing it like it should. And if I use ndiswrapper it's still showing the old drivers from the old network card. Something isn't right here. Plus since I've tried configuring the card several times in now shows up several times in hardware. Suggestions?

See networking but I tried installing ubuntu with my old card and it couldn't detect a signal and suggested hardware failure. But the new card didn't work either so I'm returning the new one and putting the old one back in. It worked fine before I decided to go WEP.

Bought a new nic and had the same results with both Ubuntu and Mandriva.

So far it seems like I have a choice of unencrypting my network or having a wireless with no internet connection.

So much for Mandriva's HCL. I bought a card listed and it's not supported!

Can anyone recommend a good wireless NIC for Mandriva? I usually buy Netgear products.

Ok, I tried installing Ubuntu and it failed too. It said it could be a hardware failure so I'm going to try buying a new NIC card and seeing if that will work.