mystified

Ok, I'm getting this error message on the desktop now.

iwconfig eth1 mode manager
Error for wireless request "Set Mod" (8806) SET failed on device; Operation not supported

Yes, I was root.

Ix, I tried manually restarting and it wouldn't work so I rebooted and it's back up again. This is driving me nuts.

It's working now. I rebooted after I tried restarting the network thru cli and now it works on the lappy. This is screwy.

Does encrypted wireless just suck in Mandriva cause now I'm having the exact same problem with my laptop and it was working fine?

I still haven't messed with the desktop, will do that tomorrow but on my laptop I tried the commands iphitus suggested and got

Error for wireless request "Set Mod" (8806) SET failed on device; Operation not supported

Well I finally got it to boot, switched to grub and now my wireless connection which was working perfectly fine is no longer working.

When lilo starts you chose what you want to boot into. I chose linux. There's a bar that goes across the bottom of the screen prior to booting. It goes about 3/4ths of the way across and then freezes. This is still when lilo is on the screen.

Ix I'm not even getting to the booting stage. It freezes before that. There's nothing to check.

This is what I get from lspci: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g)

This box is strictly wireless and yes you are correct, I should have used eth1. I was having a major duh! moment. :D

My laptop is another issue that I have so I can't copy anything altho I did compare everything before and made sure it was correct. I will go thru all the steps iphy suggested later when I have a bit more time and post back the results.

Well, I boot it up, it gets to lilo, I select linux, the loader starts and then freezes. arctic suggested this may be ndiswrapper causing the problem and that installing other distros wouldn't solve the problem. So is there a workaround or can I just not use wireless networking with my laptop?

A good friend of mine that got me into gentoo strongly recommended Ubuntu to me. Where is AI? :P

Fedora and Ubuntu are two of the distros I was thinking about. But I really don't like anaconda in Fedora and I've never tried Ubuntu. Heard both good and bad things about it but I guess it's that way with any distro.

eh?

 

lets just try and set this up manually to prove it works,

reload your wireless driver if you can, by rmmod'ing then modprobing it. its the easiest way to clear out it's settings from any crap mandrake has set. then

 

ifconfig ethX down

 

iwconfig ethX mode managed

iwconfig ethX key open WEPKEY

iwconfig ethX essid ESSID

 

iwconfig ethX

and check that there is a bssid (like a mac address) next to 'Access Point' and that it isnt 00:00:00:00:00:00

if there is, then your wireless card has successfully associated with your wireless network.

 

dhcpcd ethX

OR (not sure which mandrake uses)

dhclient ethX

 

and after proving that it works, and your card is not fried, fight with mandrake's hideous network tools to configure it.

 

James

I went thru all these steps but when I got to dhclient eth0 it kept trying to start the networking and failing.

No external mouse or keyboard.

No, not gentoo! :P

I'm pretty fed up with Mandriva atm. I installed it on my laptop and it was experiencing this problem from the start but now I can't boot into it at all. I get to lilo, select Mandriva, the little loader starts going and then it freezes. The one time I was able to get into it my network connection no longer worked. And on my other box I still haven't been able to get wireless working.

I'd put Gentoo on my daughter's box but I don't think she could handle it. But for the lappy there's no way I'd try Gentoo. Too many things to configure that I'm not familiar with since I've never owned a laptop.

So my question is what would be a good, easy to install, easy to configure distro for a laptop?

One thing I did like about Mandriva is that it configured ndiswrapper for me since my wireless card isn't supported. Anything else out there that's that good or is ndiswrapper not a big deal?

Thanks!

Thanks, I'll look into it.

I tried assigning it a static ip because altho I use dhcp my ip provided me with my own ip if that makes sense. It didn't work.

New network card??

I installed Mandriva 2006 on my new Acer laptop. I have been having some problems that are not present in windows. They're nothing major but more of an annoyance.

If I go to open an application it opens 2, 3 and even 4 instances of that application. If I go to mouseover something it will minimize the window or if it's asking me a question, like would I like to install something, if I mouse over one of the buttons it's as if I pressed it.

Also, how to I get my computer to go into sleep mode when I'm not using it for a while?

Thanks! I've never used a laptop before so this is a new experience for me.

mysti

Ok, I'm staying with WEP just to clear that up. :P

I checked ifcfg-wlan0 and found that it had not saved my encryption key so I manually added it and then the other difference is that under MII_NOT_SUPPORTED it had yes.

I tried restarting the network after adding the encryption code using /etc/init.d/network restart and got the following:

Bringing up interface eth1: ipcal: bad netmask. IP

Error some other host already uses address No IP.

I use dhcp. There is no set netmask or ip address.

Suggestions?

I tried the voodoo doll and it didn't work. :P

History. I've had this network set up for about three years but I never bothered to encrypt it because I live in a rural area with no one nearby. But I decided to go ahead and encrypt it so I logged into my router, a Netgear WGT624, set encryption strength at 128 bits. I have two computers plugged in directly and a laptop and a desktop that are wireless. Everything worked fine before I set the encryption. The laptop that I got working has a built in Broadcom 801.11g wireless card. That computer that I can't get working has a Netgear MA311 802.11b which supports 128bit encryption. I entered the encryption keys into the network card configuration for both computers.

I set up a wireless encrypted network on my laptop with no problem. I used mcc, wireless, restricted wep, added the encryption key, continued thru the steps and it worked. No luck with my other computer tho. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

The original thread is back. Please vote!

Mine is easy. I got sick of Windows and wanted an alternative. I went to Best Buy, saw Mandrake 8.1, bought it and fell in love and now I only use windows for work.

You have to have an /etc/fstab. It's what lists your partitions and mount points among other things. It won't be a directory, just a file.