Guest avimd Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 i'm having the same problem - fresh 10.1 official install on a HP nx9030, intel 2200 wireless. The 2200 is detected by mandrake on eth1 , but it fails to load. is this a bug with mandrake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 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 ? Also please post the contents of the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 (edited) 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 Edited December 14, 2004 by kde-head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 the driver linked to from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net is a .exe file - how do i unpack that in Linux? its the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 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) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> aaah - i've got Winzip running under Wine - i'll give that a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 you can also just gunzip <filename> .. i was forgetting you said .zip ! also karchiver works :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 you can also just gunzip <filename> .. i was forgetting you said .zip ! also karchiver works :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> neither decompress .EXE archives winzip on wine worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 (edited) 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? Edited December 14, 2004 by kde-head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 get rid of the default ndiswrapper that mandrake loads on install then go grab the new version at sourceforge ( you have to get rid of the old one first or the new version will cause a conflict and you'll never get it running) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 After doing your best to remove old ndiswrapper, go and read this: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=20356&hl= Once you've eradicated it fully, then try installing the 0.9.1 RPM from your CD / main source. It covers most recent chips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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