Guest ifonce Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hi everyone, I have succeeded to install the 10.1, but I got stuck in configuring the Wireless connection. I installed the Mandrake in my Pavilion ze5400 laptop, and it has the National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller. I read the other site where they said I can go to the ATI site and download the X.Org 6.8. After installing the ATI exe file, I still can't make a new Wireless connection. After choosing the Wireless connection radiobutton, Mandrake keeps sending me back the window where it asks me to "Manually load a driver". I am new to this, and appreciate your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hold on, isn't X.Org for the video card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchancock Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 If you're looking to setup the wireless ethernet connection, you'll probably end up using ndiswrapper. I have an HP Pavilion zd7188cl laptop and that's what I had to do. I'd like to point out that hp's website is as helpfull as a kick in the nuts when trying to find out what kind of wireless card you have. Anyway, I'll assume that since harddrake didn't find a driver for your card that you'll have to use ndiswrapper and we'll go from there. (NDISWRAPPER is a program that lets you use the windows wireless card drivers with your linux machine. It's a work-around for companies that don't see the profitability in providing open-source drivers for their hardware yet ;) ) Visit this website and read the section about installation/uninstallation. Pay specific attention to the distro-specific instructions and ignore the section about building a new kernel package: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...hp/Installation once that's installed and running, your wireless ethernet should run like a dream. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ifonce Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Thank you for all of your responses to my post. Nchancock I want to compile the kernel source to make the bzImage, but I can't find where the kernel-source<kernel-version>.rpm is located. I used 'find -name kernel-source<kernel-version>.rpm', but I couldn't find it out. Appreciate your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 I have some info on my website, configuration page, about setting up wireless, ... there should be no kernel compiling or so involved at all - it basically works out of the box with mdk10.1... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 urpmi kernel-source-2.6 You should not have to actually compile it. Everything else you need is already there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ifonce Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hi everyone again, I made a little progress, but got stuck again. After installing ndiswrapper, I tried 3 command lines as following: ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present net83815 driver present, hardware present netwlan driver present iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID: off/any Mode: Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr: 2346 B Encryption key: off Power Management: off Link Quality: 100/100 Signal level:-10dBm Noise level:-256dBm Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt: 0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:186094 Missed beacon:0 iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 No scan results Why is my AP 00:00:00:00:00? Can you set me some light on it? Appreciate all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ifonce Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I am sorry for the unorganized text. I did indent, but after I added my post, they didn't show up. Three commands I tried are: 1/ ndiswrapper -l 2/ iwconfig 3/ iwlist wlan0 scan The rest of my text is the output for each command. Sorry for the inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I am sorry for the unorganized text. I did indent, but after I added my post, they didn't show up. It looks perfectly acceptable as it is, but if you use the CODE button to insert code tags around your outputs, they should come out right. Putting in your own indents doesn't usually work, as the board software has its own way of dealing with white space. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 On your AP being 0, I guess your wlan is not getting the connection to your AP. On the other hand, it does seem to work. What's the output of /sbin/ifconfig ? Can you configure the network device with the network GUI in Mandrake Control Center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ifonce Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 I got my Wireless connected. Thanks everybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 It would be nice if you posted here what worked for you, for posterity and further learning of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest znarf Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 March 4, 2005 Mandrake 10.1 and wireless Ethernet. I cheated a little bit out of frustration. After trying a PCI card on a desktop computer and a USB device on an HP Pavilion N5170, I purchased a D-Link DWL G730 AP wireless access point / gateway. The Geek Squad at Best Buy could not help. Once connected, mode selected and configured, I was reliably able to connect to my home wireless gateway. The good features of this product are as follows. 1. It uses my functional on-board Ethernet card to jump onto wireless 2. It has two power modes. Plug in and USB. This is great for laptops. It has several drawbacks. 1. It requires more space (shaving kit size) than a USB or internal card 2. You do not have the signal strength meter. It is kind-of a sledge hammer approach, but it is down and dirty simple to use. I can't wait to take this on the road and test it. I hope this helps others. Sincerely Znarf of Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 znarf: yep, using a wireless bridge is my favourite solution, especially for desktop wireless. Other advantages you didn't mention - you can easily shift it over to another ethernet device if necessary, and you can get much better reception by just shifting the bridge away from the PC and giving it some height. you can buy nice cheap wireless bridges from any big electronics store; they're marketed as add-ons for consoles, like the 'wireless gaming adapter' and so forth, but they're actually perfectly generic wireless bridges and work flawlessly with anything with an ethernet port. I use a Linksys model with my HTPC and it works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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