My wireless adaptor doesn't work... Please help...

[Guest dennyon]

I´ve been trying for months to get my usb WLI-USB-L11G-WR to work with Mandrake 10.0 Official, but very unfortunately, this hasn´t been quite successful. I managed to get the driver going, which makes the adaptor´s LED light up, and iwconfig shows up the device, but connection to the internet is still not available. Here´s what I have at iwconfig:

 

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"00074035D300"  Nickname:"localhost"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:07:40:76:C9:5C
         Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
         Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:0000-0000-00   Security mode:open
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality:50/92  Signal level:-46 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:726  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

 

And also, under MCC, it classifies my wireless adaptor as "Unknown/Others". Does that affect my internet connection?

 

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[iphitus]

As root at the command line,

 

iwconfig eth0 mode Managed key restricted 1234567890 essid SSID

replace SSID with your network name, and 1234567890 with your wep key.

If you dont have a wep key

iwconfig eth0 mode Managed essid SSID

Just do network name.

 

Then

dhcpcd eth0
ifconfig up eth0

 

And you ought to be online. Im not sure how to make mandrake do this automagically, but maybe someone else here does.

[Guest dennyon]

It seems like I don't have the dhcpcd command in mandrake.

[root@endorphin oal]# dhcpcd eth0
bash: dhcpcd: command not found

 

and also, "ifconfig up eth0" does work either. Here's the help of ifconfig if it helps:

[root@endorphin oal]# ifconfig --help
Usage:
 ifconfig [-a] [-i] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>]
 [add <address>[/<prefixlen>]]
 [del <address>[/<prefixlen>]]
 [[-]broadcast [<address>]]  [[-]pointopoint [<address>]]
 [netmask <address>]  [dstaddr <address>]  [tunnel <address>]
 [outfill <NN>] [keepalive <NN>]
 [hw <HW> <address>]  [metric <NN>]  [mtu <NN>]
 [[-]trailers]  [[-]arp]  [[-]allmulti]
 [multicast]  [[-]promisc]
 [mem_start <NN>]  [io_addr <NN>]  [irq <NN>]  [media <type>]
 [txqueuelen <NN>]
 [[-]dynamic]
 [up|down] ...

 <HW>=Hardware Type.
 List of possible hardware types:
   loop (Local Loopback) slip (Serial Line IP) cslip (VJ Serial Line IP)
   slip6 (6-bit Serial Line IP) cslip6 (VJ 6-bit Serial Line IP) adaptive (Adaptive Serial Line IP)
   strip (Metricom Starmode IP) ash (Ash) ether (Ethernet)
   tr (16/4 Mbps Token Ring) tr (16/4 Mbps Token Ring (New)) ax25 (AMPR AX.25)
   netrom (AMPR NET/ROM) rose (AMPR ROSE) tunnel (IPIP Tunnel)
   ppp (Point-to-Point Protocol) hdlc ((Cisco)-HDLC) lapb (LAPB)
   arcnet (ARCnet) dlci (Frame Relay DLCI) frad (Frame Relay Access Device)
   sit (IPv6-in-IPv4) fddi (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) hippi (HIPPI)
   irda (IrLAP) ec (Econet) x25 (generic X.25)
 <AF>=Address family. Default: inet
 List of possible address families:
   unix (UNIX Domain) inet (DARPA Internet) inet6 (IPv6)
   ax25 (AMPR AX.25) netrom (AMPR NET/ROM) rose (AMPR ROSE)
   ipx (Novell IPX) ddp (Appletalk DDP) ec (Econet)
   ash (Ash) x25 (CCITT X.25)

[Guest dennyon]

I think some of the commands that you mentioned are different from those in Mandrake. I managed to find out the difference and did these:

iwconfig eth0 mode Managed key s:1234567890 essid SSID

dhclient eth0

ifconfig eth0 up

 

it doesn't seems to be able to find its IP from the DHCP though...

[sellis]

Have you checked the firewall? It needs to know which networking device to use to connect to the internet, and if you've changed to wireless, it may still be trying to use an old wired connection.