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Lost it again - anyone want to post it somewhere for me...?

ndiswrapper is working a treat - doing my first update as we speak!

Of course - there's every chance that it won't work again after the update! :D

wireless-tools is definately installed - and I'm pretty sure it happened during the install... Perhaps it's only included in the base in the later releases...

One thing I'm nto sure about from the wiki is:

wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta

although it seems to suggest it might not be necessary anyway... When I run that though I'm told that "sta" is an invalid option for create - should I be replacing it with something else...?

Othwerwise I may well just give Ian's suggestion of ndiswrapepr a go...

wireless-tools is installed as part of the base install I believe - certainly it's installed...

I did try and follow all the steps in the wiki, but the first one - "ifconfig ath0 up" results in a "no such device"...

OK - so my last card simply didn't seem to work under ndiswrapper or anything else, so I swapped it with someone at work.

The card I have now appears to have an atheros chipset, so I've installed madwifi. That seems to have worked Ok and I now have the ath_pci module which is being loaded perfectly well.

The trouble is that there is no XXX0 (i.e. ath0 or wlan0 or eth0) device at all...

I've added:

alias ath0 ath_pci

to my /etc/modprobe.conf I'm confident I've set everything up correctly in /etc/rc.conf

so - does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting no love from this card...?

Could it just be that the driver/card doesn't work (there is a light on at the back of the card...) or perhaps a solution that would make me happier...

based on lspci I've determined that it's an atheros chipset - so I've now installed madwifi.

I'm still having problems with that - but since it's installed on arch I think I'll post about that elsewhere...

Is there a way of getting the system to figure out which chipset a wireless card uses? (It's an origo (or Well) 802.119 pci in case anyone knows of the top of their head...? )

Would dmesg tell me this?

I have to say that I've always found the documentation to be excellent. It's true that you need to print out the docs for the install (or have another PC there), but that was my experience with gentoo as well...

It's hardly a hardship...

I'm thinking now that my wireless card simply won;t work under ndiswrapper or Linux at all at present. I'm going to see if I can persuade a friend to swap mine for his and see if I have better luck next time.

The more I lokk at it and read on the internet, the more I think I've got everything set up, but that my hardware simply won't work...

Perhaps I'm giving up too easily though...

not sure if this is relevant to your language problem but if you edit /etc/locale.gen (or something like that) and uncomment the line for your locale and then run "locale-gen" then it may help...

wpa_supplicant is for encrypted stuff right? I'm not using any encryption on my wireless since it caused my laptop to keep dropping the connection and I figured that everything goes out to the internet in plain text anyway... Except for SSL which is encrypted from the browser...

I'm about ready to give up on this now... I did a man iwconfig and read that the link quality (which I checked and is 0/100) is dependant on the driver and the hardware...

I don't know what I can do to get this working any better...

I'm gutted - especially as this means I'm probably going to have to use windows exclusively... :sad:

Is it simply a case of listing modules in that config file? I think that perhaps I am using an older kernel after all, since I notice that it's the next one from the one I'm using (2.16.6) which relies on mkinitcpio...

perhaps I should upgrade my kernel...

I can't get ndiswrapper running in the new kernel - I'll leave the kernel upgrade till I've got network and I can do it properly...

I believe I'm using the latest approach. I literally made a fresh install with an 0.7.2 iso

I've done very little with the install at present as I don't have any network connectivity (due to this problem...) and I've not even done any kind of initial pacman sync...

I installed via pacman and followed the wiki closely...

I really do wonder if one of the conf files in /etc/ndiswrapper needs some tweaking - but I wouldn't know where to start...

It requires a proxy, such as squid...

I wonder now whether the driver is set up properly.

For example, I checked through all the .conf files in /etc/ndiswrapper and all of them have a field called mac_address with a value of XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

which, obviously, isn't right...

I've also jsut noticed that when I switch my PC off then my router lists my card (by mac address) as being an attached device. As soon as the system tries to start the network then it's no longer listed...

Please, please - does anyone have any clues as to what I might want to try...? I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is possible, but I just need tp change the right setting...

any ideas? I haveno other network conenctivity on this box except wireless so if I can't get it figured out then I'll have to put windows back on it - but I was really looking forward to my nice, clean arch install...

Edit: when I try to set up a static config; for a network ip address address range of 192.168.1.x should I broadcast 192.168.1.255?

Do you have the windows versions of doom or quake? You will need some of the data files from them to play the games...

I assumed both of those would be covered by dhcp...

Is that not correct?

Edit: sorry I read your post again and you meant when I set things up with static settings. I did set the gateway but I didn't bother with resolv.conf since I figured that I'd be able to ping the router by ip if I had network connectivity and I could sort the nameservers out after that...

But I couldn't ping anything...

I'm trying to rebuild my desktop from scratch so I began with a brand new installation of arch linux. I got through the base install and went to set up the wireless networking...

I searched around and discovered that my wireless card (Belkin F5D7001uk) did have native drivers but they are still beta. I tried them anyway and couldn't even get them to compile...

So I went with ndiswrapper. I followed the instructions on the arch wiki and the ndiswrapper website they pointed to...

I am confident that the basic setup is correct for the following reasons:

1)There are lights on the network card...

2) when I do a "iwlist wlan0 scan" I am told about my wireless network - including the mac address of my router - which it could only get through wireless means.

I then set up my network to get it's config via dhcp - my rc.conf contains the following:

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid RedFruit"
wlan="dhcp"

I went to restart the network and it failed...

I then tried to setup my card with a static ip which worked - but still I had no connectivity to my network...

I know that the wireless and the dhcp work perfectly well because I'm using them right now via my windows laptop...

I'm at a complete loss with this. As far as I can make out it should be working fine - but it isn't! Please give me some pointers someone!

What e-learning software do they use? I work in a university with e-learning software and I may be able to find out for you...

well I'll be...

well I'll be...

I'm sorry - but I really don't understand why neither of you didn't simply use request parameters? It would have been much easier...

I must be missing something here...

Yes, that would be easier, but I can't do that: this is for an existing site consisting of about 200 mostly "static" pages.

But if every request went via your ASP (which presumably it has to anyway for anything you do here to work...?) then you could still pull it off the request...