redss Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 My netgear wireless card came with a gui utility that runs in MS-windows and scans for available wireless networks and enables me to connect to a network by entering the WEP password... What is the best equivalent of this on linux? Haven't actually tried mandriva yet but I'm playing with a liveCD (whax) which has wlassistant and kwifimanager, but I cant connect to a WEP protected network with either utility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 Use ndiswrapper. It utilizes the existing windows driver in linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redss Posted November 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 I also tried (successfully) installing the windows driver (inf file) with ndiswrapper, however, that still doesnt enable me to connect to anything but an unencrypted network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Go to the MCC, networking, wireless network and configure it. (MCC=Mandriva Control Center) It is also called "configure your computer" in the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 All GUIs such as kwifimanager simply produce a configuration file for your wireless device. You can do this by creating and editing a configuration file. since you can connect to an unencripted AP, your card seems to be installed correctly. Find out the name of the wireless interface (could be wlan0, eth1, or similar), by running ifconfig or iwconfig as root. Then, edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<your interface name>. Google for ifcfg-<your interface name> to find out what commands to put there, and what they mean. Here is mine DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL=yes #BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.81.5 NETWORK=192.168.81.0 #ONBOOT=yes ONBOOT=no HWADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee # your card MAC address MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=yes # TYPE=Wireless MODE=Managed ESSID=Myessid NICNAME="myboxname" ENCRYPTION=ON # uncomment this line if using WEP (128 bit) KEY="restricted s:my_WEP_key" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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