Guest Brainjammers Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Hello: I am somewhat new to Linux having had a go at installing Ubuntu and failing to get my WLAN up and running, so I have tried Mandriva 2007, which I have to say looks splendid. It also ran fw-cutter to set up my Broadcom 4306 PCI wireless card with no apparent difficulty, allocating it eth0. There is an on-board LAN 10/100 card which does not show up and I cannot easily remove physically. So if I click on the little icon in the top right and select "connect eth0", it then with no problems appears to connect to eth0. But then the trouble starts. I have configured my own network to death using the Mandriva Control Centre and I was convinced that I have got the right settings having had no difficulty with the XP laptop I am currently using to type this message. I have a range of IP addresses which includes the static one which I have allocated the subject PC, and I am running a WPA-PSK secured system. It is here that I fear I may be in deep water. The WPA settings on my router are TKIP. But when I run iwconfig from the Mandriva COntrol Centre it tells me that my Security mode is Open. I tried to edit this from the Control Centre using gedit and the ifcfg-eth0 file, but changing "open" for "tkip" has no effect, or didn't. I may be editing the wrong file of course. The other thought I had was that the encryption key needs some sort of translation, but as this seems to work on my other machine, this seems unlikely. When I reboot, the network indicator (top right) tells me that I "do not have any configured Internet connection..." and invites me to configure everything again. I wonder if perhaps my desired configuration is not "set" in some way. When I do reiterate the configuration, the network applet says that the Network is up on eth0 and cites the correct IP address and Gateway, but then when I attempt to connect to my (visible) network, it says it's connecting and then tells me that the network is down. I don't seem to get both ends connected at the same time. If I try to run a DHCP setup, which my router can handle, the network applet won't connect to eth0 at all. I am rather running out of ideas here, and I feel so near to sorting this problem that I do not wish to give up, so I would be grateful for any advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 (edited) I had a lot of problems with fw-cutter and broadcom wireless cards on several distros, so much so, I've gone back to ndiswrapper. The main issue I saw on several distros with fw-cutter is that the designation for the wireless card kept shifting from one boot to the next from eth0 to eth1 and back again. Note, I also have a regular nic which kept shifting back and forth with the wireless from eth0 to eth1. So every other boot or so I wound up having to reconfigure everything. You can see if you are having the same trouble by running this in a console as root: # iwconfig If the interface with the "wireless extensions" shifts from eth0 to eth1 on some reboots, you have the same problem. Edited February 2, 2007 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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