kmc77 Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Ok, the FC fanatics got me excited about FC5, so I downloaded and installed it this weekend on my laptop. Installed without a hitch, and runs well. I have decided to make this my laptop os, that is, if I can get ndiswrapper running and my wireless working. I've had the wireless working on this laptop with Ubuntu, Mepis and PCLOS using ndiswrapper, so I know everything (ndiswrapper, bcmwl5 drivers, etc.) works. Here's where I am: Ndiswrapper installed, driver installed and recognized, wlan0/ndiswrapper added as a device in network options. Now the problem: Attempting to activate both with gui and cl (ifup) results in this error: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0; Invalid argument. Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable? output of iwconfig: [root@fedora ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"fedora.box.linux.com" Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 output of ifconfig: [root@fedora ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:08:6D:F2 inet addr:10.100.1.101 Bcast:10.100.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::203:25ff:fe08:6df2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:38380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:23 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:17775709 (16.9 MiB) TX bytes:717826 (701.0 KiB) Interrupt:11 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3010283 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:3010283 (2.8 MiB) Relevant bits of dmesg output: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,06/13/2003, 3.20.23.0) loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNK2] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,06/13/2003, 3.20.23.0) loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNK2] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ndiswrapper: using irq 10 wlan0: vendor: '' wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:96:59:b3:86 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4320.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA ndiswrapper (iw_set_encr:892): removing encryption key 0 failed (C0010015) ndiswrapper: using irq 10 wlan0: vendor: '' wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:96:59:b3:86 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4320.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA ndiswrapper (iw_set_encr:892): removing encryption key 0 failed (C0010015) Been following some guides/posts at fedoraforum.org with no luck. I'd like to keep FC5 on this laptop. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 How did you install ndiswrapper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted April 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 (edited) How did you install ndiswrapper?Yum, from livna repo. Edited April 3, 2006 by kmc77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 What wireless card do you have, or more importantly, what chipset? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted April 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 I fixed it, but thanks for offer iph. Some weird issues with iwconfig and gui. Neither were actually configuring my options and ndiswraper -m wasn't correctly configuring an alias in modprobe. For any others who may experience this problem, here is how I was able to resolve the issue (I was able to piece the solution together, thanks to numerous post on fedoraforum.org) Install ndiswrapper. Once installed: /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i /your/wireless/driver/location /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l (to find out if file was loaded) modprobe ndiswrapper dmesg (see if there are any errors with your setup) Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add these lines alias eth1 ndiswrapper options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1 (or whatever you want your connection to be called. ((eth5, wlan1, etc.)) Create the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and add these lines IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= TYPE=wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR= BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DOMAIN= ESSID=(your essid) CHANNEL=6 MODE=Managed NETWORK_TYPE=g #RATE=54Mb/s RATE=Auto (of course, change any of this to match your network setup) Create the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-eth1 and add this line (if your network has no password security, leave password blank) KEY=(your key) Then: ifup eth1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Is the Network Manager now able to function correctly? That is, does the laptop attach to available networks correctly? I have several secure networks that I hook up to during the week, which Mandriva handles just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Is the Network Manager now able to function correctly? That is, does the laptop attach to available networks correctly? I have several secure networks that I hook up to during the week, which Mandriva handles just fine. Mines been working since early on rawhide of fc5. I'm at work, close my lid (suspend) go home, open the lid, laptop kicks on and my wireless site ask for the network. /me whispers, rh started nm project :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted April 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Wifi manager sees the other networks without a problem, but my work network is WPA secured. I have a ethernet plug right next to my desk, so I typicaly just plug in, but since you asked, IX, I decided to give it a try. It's not accepting my WPA password. cyberjackle, do you have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Wifi manager sees the other networks without a problem, but my work network is WPA secured. I have a ethernet plug right next to my desk, so I typicaly just plug in, but since you asked, IX, I decided to give it a try. It's not accepting my WPA password. cyberjackle, do you have any suggestions? I have not used WPA my self so I couldn't tell you to much about it. I know they include wpa_supplicant/gui so maybe try wpa_gui man -k wpa or our best friend !google wpa_supplicant +fedora I fired up the gui and it looks pretty easy to use, but you never know with how cards/firmware/networks are setup how it will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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