JonEberger Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 (edited) so i've got ndiswrapper working well...pretty well. i've got a wg111 usb wireless nic connected to my desktop pc. i've got it set (in ifcfg-wlan0) to come on at boot (ONBOOT=yes) and to pull ip as well from my wireless router. it will stay up for days on end. but occasionally it drops connection. i'm not sure why. sometimes it never pulls the ip address onboot. executing the following code ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 channel xx iwconfig wlan0 essid ___________ ifup wlan0 it may or may not pull a connection. what i've noticed is that with a program like gaim running, my connection stays alive longer. i doubt it's ndiswrapper. what i would imagine is that it is the settings i'm giving it. i've had this issue with a d-link wireless pcmcia nic on two laptops as well. any ideas? it's my primary connection and so it would be nice to figure out. Edited October 19, 2005 by JonEberger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted October 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 here's my ifcfg-wlan0 ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ESSID="athensberger" CHANNEL="11" MODE=Managed IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes TYPE=wireless RATE=Auto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted October 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 i believe this nic happens to be the atheros chipset. has anyone had any success with madwifi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 I have atheros chipsets to, ar5012 or something like that, but I've not attempted to install for a while. I had more luck getting it working with ndiswrapper. But I had all the security turned off on the access point. I was trying to get it to work with WPA but it wouldn't have it. I'll try it again soon, my laptop is now free from it's requirements for "work" :P Might be best trying with the access point wide open, and see how you get on. Have you followed their links? This is their main link: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...x.php/Main_Page but the best one you want to look at is this one: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...hp/Installation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted October 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 hi ian. thanks. i live on their wiki pages. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 I downloaded them whilst I was trying to get mine working :P Had any luck with all the security left wide open on the wireless access point? If so, you can slowly add it all back in to see what works best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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