Sherpa Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 (edited) this is the continuation of a problem that started after i followed all of the instructions in this thread: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?act...=15#entry127339 the exact error message that is displayed at startup is: ndiswrapper device does not seem to be present, delaying installation. i will now check the system log, and see what the message Edited July 5, 2004 by Sherpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 Jul 4 01:50:49 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Jul 4 01:50:51 localhost ifup: ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. Jul 4 01:50:51 localhost network: Bringing up interface wlan0: failed this is the log entry for startup..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 it seems now that i can access my router, and i am able to ping other computers on my network wirelessly ( this is of course after i have logged on and issued the command "/etc/init.d/network restart" ) all through the wireless card. i am even able to use VNC to connect to other computers, however there is a slight problem... i can only access things on my local network. when ever i go into Firefox, mozilla, or konquorer, and type a web address, like google, it says "An error occurred while loading http://www.google.com/: Unknown host www.google.com" i do not under stand this. i am able to access all of the web based utilities on my network via the card, but then i am not able to access public addresses? i have checked all of the router settings to make sure it was nothing wron on that end, and there is not, i even booted into winblows (after 3 months of fasting) to make sure that it worked on public addresses, and it does. so i am pretty sure that it is something wrong on my computer's end. Anyone else had this problem. I ams still having the problem that i mentioned above. it still will not load at startup, i have to manually restart the network when i get into X........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 i think that i am having this issue partly due to the fact that there used to be a line in my modprobe.conf file that was something like: alias wlan0 rsomething where the something is replaced with some number, i remember seeing it there before, but now it is gone, there is also one for my eth0 it is: alias eth0 r8169 i am not sure what that number is but there used to be a line that had wlan0 and a "r####" is this number specific to my system? or could someone who has ndiswrapper working for their WMP54G please post their full modprobe.conf please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 also when i run ndiswrapper -m to write the modprobe configureation, it tells me to remove the line that beesea said to add... and it tells me to make sure that i know what i am doing 100%.... i still can only connect to my local network in my house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 (edited) seems like i have this thread to myself, but ill post this anyway for anyone who cares..... i finally got it working!!! i removed all of the lines that beesea said to add to modprobe.conf. i then left the settings in the file /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 (i think that is what and where it is). i then ran the command /etc/init.d/network restart then i ran iwconfig to make sure that the propper setting loaded up for the wireless card ie, encryption key, essidd, etc once i saw that everyting was ok, i issued the command: ndiswrapper -m it outputted that is wrote the proper configuration to modprobe.conf (that is what that command is supposed to do anyway) then i rebooted and everything came up fine, no failures at startup, and now i am talking to you through my linksys wireless g WMP54G card... (with all of my encryption settings) now i will work on making a static ip address... shouldn't be hard (i dont think) Edited July 8, 2004 by Sherpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted July 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 i tried to replace the code that was for my eth0 device (which has a static ip address) in the ifcfg-eth0 with the ip address information for my ifcfg-wlan0, but it does not work correctly. i have to do all of this manually, ie without the graphical front end, whenever i go to the mdk ctrl center to modify the settings, it screws up the ifcfg-wlan0 file and tries to configure it to be a lan device ie, it erases the essid line and the key line... do i have to reload the backup file. is there a way to set a static ip address from the command line with ifconfig or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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