Dustpuppy Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 I've been given my brother's old laptop (see sig) which came with a Belkin Wireless Pre-N Notebook Network Card. This works fine under windows, and didn't have a problem in XP with connecting wirelessly to my router. I wasn't sure it would be easy to configure to use for a 2006 network install, so I installed Mandriva using an ethernet connection (which was fine), and then tried to install the network card. After much googling, downloading and kernel-crashing I got to the following point. Ndiswrapper has been uninstalled and then the latest version installed from sourceforge. The NetAni drivers have been located on the XP partition and have been pointed to ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper seems happy with this. The lights are on the wireless card, and the kernel isn't crashing. Modprobe.conf has been written as it should. I have an interface called "wlan0", and in the taskbar an icon tells me that the network is up on wlan0. Iwconfig gives me the mac address of my router (which I didn't input), signal strength and bitrate. And it doesn't work. I can't ping anything either inside or outside the network, or the router (except 127.0.0.1). If I fire up Firefox it says it can't reach the host. Please help! The contents of both /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/wireless.d/Wireless and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 are: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.6 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no MS_DNS1=212.67.120.148 MS_DNS2=212.67.96.129 WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=wireless WIRELESS_NWID=10 PEERDNS=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.0.6 NETWORKING_IPV6=no Does anyone have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Topaz Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 What gateway are you using, if you haven't chagned it then it might be still trying to use the ip address of the ethernet port. Try running "netstat -r", what do you get? what does running "ipconfig -a" as root output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Also check your security and firewall settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Also, as it's wireless, have you configured security on the wireless access point? If so, disable so it's completely open, and then try again and see if you get a response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jglen490 Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Sourceforge has a very good wiki site for setting up and configuring wireless cards under Linux. Take a look and see if this might help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted November 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I've seen the wiki before - no help there, I'm afraid! I came across something similar on a Suse forum, though: the person resolved it by changing WPA security. What's that? My firewall's off on the laptop, wep is off at the router and it's an open access point. My security setting on the laptop is "high", as done at installation, and I can't find a way of changing that in 2006 . I've left the gateway the same as it was before - 192.168.0.1, which is the IP addy of the router. I've added GATEWAY_DEV=mac addy of the router (LAN side), but that hasn't helped. Is this what the gateway is with wireless? ipconfig - isn't this a windoze command? netstat -r gives Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0 One thing I've just noticed is that the logs are chock full of ndiswrapper errors of the sort ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:222):code 78855856 I have no clue what this means, and can't find anything by googling. Does anyone know what it means, and is it a problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Topaz Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 >ipconfig - isn't this a windoze command? Yes, I should have typed "ifconfig -a", my fingers thought they new better. please post the result of that (run as root) > netstat -r givesDestination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0 That looks good. The default route is via the wlan0 interface. What settings do you have for the device in mandrakelinux control center, esp the wireless connection panel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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