marcrob Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Hi All, I have just installed my mandriva free edition. The installation part went succesfully. I have dell 600m Laptop. My built in card is BCM 4306 blah blah blah.......... I have used my windows native driver with ndiswrapper. The o/p from ndiswrapper -l [root@localhost etc]# ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present The o/p from iwconfig [root@localhost etc]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=54 Mb/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:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. But i'm still not able to connect to the internet using wlan0 Need help regarding this Thanks in advance Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Your card seems to be running, but it does not see your access point. I'm gonna show you the easy way and the hard way. Hard way: Find the hwaddr of your router (usually written on the bottom of the router), also known as MAC address. If you have another computer that can connect, you can also see it in the config of the web interface to the router. As root, in a console, run the command: iwconfig wlan0 ap <<insert router's hwaddr here>> Then, I am sure you have encryption set up on the router like a good wireless network user and ssid broadcast is turned off, so you need to run these two commands: iwconfig wlan0 essid <<insert essid here>> iwconfig wlan0 key <<encryption key>> You can do all these at one time if you wish (I think...not 100% sure): iwconfig wlan0 ap <<insert router's hwaddr here>> essid <<insert essid here>> key <<encryption key>> After doing this, check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file and make sure it added the values there: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 #assuming your router is 192.168.1.something NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 #this depends on your card...I have the same chipset and yes/no seems to make no difference for me MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no USERCTL=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=[b]<<your essid>>[/b] WIRELESS_RATE=54M WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=[b]<<your key>>[/b] #this is good to be set to 'no' IPV6INIT=no #so is this IPV6TO4INIT=no DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient DHCP_HOSTNAME=[b]<<hostname you want to use>>[/b] NEEDHOSTNAME=no PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=no PEERNTPD=no Do: service network restart and make sure you can surf. Easy way: Run Mandrake Control Center (mcc from a console) Select Hardware Select Look at and Configure Hardware Select your wireless card Click Run Config Tool Select Wireless Select wlan0 Configure everything there HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcrob Posted June 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Hi steve Thanks for the reply I followed the HARDWAY Here is the output from the config file [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK="No Mask" ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:0b:7d:0b:8a:78 METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes USERCTL=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=XXXXXXX (edited) WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="open s:XXXXXXXXXX" (edited) IPV6INIT=no IPV6TO4INIT=no PEERDNS=yes NETMASK="No Mask" DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient NEEDHOSTNAME=yes PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=no PEERNTPD=no I didnt see any values written to the config file Thanks Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Now the question i should have asked before: Did you as root? modprobe ndiswrapper and add to /etc/modprobe.preload ndiswrapper and add to /etc/modprobe.conf alias wlan0 nidswrapper ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcrob Posted June 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Hi Steve Yes, I did that... Here is the output from etc/ [root@localhost etc]# cat modprobe.preload # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules ndiswrapper i8k nvram hw_random evdev intel-agp [root@localhost etc]# cat modprobe.conf alias eth0 tg3 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 remove snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true alias wlan0 ndiswrapper alias net-pf-10 off Thanks Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcrob Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 Finally got it worked !!!!!!!! But It's slow. Well i can live with it. Any help to help to boost the speed will be really appreciated. Thanks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 How did you get it to work? For speed, try from a console as root: iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcrob Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 This is what i did I got the Kwifimanager installed to check the networks in my range bcos it was hard for me to use the defulat network manager or whatever...... Then i googled on network encrytion. Realised that i had problem with my network key and Bingo........................got it worked. Thanks Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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