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wireless in mandrake 10.1 official - how?


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i installed mdk 10.1 official

everything is ok.

it recognizes my wifi adapter intel 2200 wireless

still no connection to my access point.

 

can you please direct me in the right direction

thx

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There is an error - not so much a bug - with Mandrake and the wireless app. ndiswrapper.  Before we get to that, two questions:

 

have you added the word 'ndiswrapper' to the file /etc/modprobe.preload ?

 

no - my /etc/modprobe.preload has the following:

 

evdev

nvram

intel-agp

 

Also please post the contents of the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

 

there isnt a ifcfg-wlan0 - Mdk 10.1 detected it on eth1 so i have a ifcfg-eth1 - I set it to use a static address rather than DHCP in the hope that it would increase boot time (it seems to just hang for 3 minutes during boot...)

 

DEVICE=eth1

BOOTPROTO=static

IPADDR=192.168.1.48

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

NETWORK=192.168.1.0

BROADCAST=192.168.1.255

ONBOOT=yes

HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00

METRIC=10

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no

WIRELESS_MODE=Managed

WIRELESS_ESSID=any

 

 

Also in the /etc/sysconfg/network-scripts there's a ifup-wireless

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I got mine working with ndiswrapper (but in debian)

The key is playing about with the settings, I changed a couple of things from auto like wireless channel and rate and it suddenly worked ... when set to 11Mbit instead of auto???

 

KWifi is a geat tool... you can forget the dhcp side becuase first it needs the wireless working... KWiFi has the signal strength meter and this is really useful becuase you mess about until it finds something :D

 

not very scioentific Im afraid but that worked for me :D

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you can try and wine it?

 

some manufactuerers go to endless trouble to prevent them being used under linux though ...

the netgear .exe's won't run under wine ??

 

best is if someone here has a win system they can unzip em on and mail the files... (which isn't me Im win Free)

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you can try and wine it? 

 

some manufactuerers go to endless trouble to prevent them being used under linux though ...

the netgear .exe's won't run under wine ?? 

 

best is if someone here has a win system they can unzip em on and mail the files...  (which isn't me Im win Free)

 

aaah - i've got Winzip running under Wine - i'll give that a shot.

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i'm following the instructions on ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net - so far so good. i have the inf and sys windows drivers.

 

however , when i do a dmesg i see ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded.

 

but i just urpmi'ed ndiswrapper 0.91

 

 

urpme ndiswrapper to remove it, and then a dmesg , stil shows version 0.8 loaded

 

mix up in ndiswrapper versions going on in mandrake 10.1?

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Guys!!

 

Intel make you an official driver, what are you doing??

 

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

 

Afaik, the one in mandrake's probably a bit old to work, but just go grab the newest version from there!

 

urpmi kernel-source

download latest firmware here: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

download latest version here: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#downloads

and then follow hte instructions here: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL

 

iphitus

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i was going to try that , but i've now got the ndiswrapper version working

 

iwconfig shows wlan0 as being up , but i can't ping to my linux desktop gateway machine - i get a destination unreachable.

 

should wlan0 be mapped to eth0 or something?

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