SilverSurfer60 Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 No I got a false positive. Yes I have a green light on the applet yet when I try to ping the router I get Destination Host Unreachable. :wall: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Just to confirm, I would definitely not suggest using KDE 4 in 256MB of RAM. It uses 250MB just sitting at a desktop. GNOME, Xfce and LXDE are all good alternatives (task-gnome , task-xfce , task-lxde). pinging the router doesn't always work, depending on how it's set up. What happens when you try to ping a remote site? also, try switching back to DHCP, but use 'dhcpcd' instead of 'dhclient' (you can set this in ifcfg-wlan0 , or in drakconnect). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 What was the entry you deleted in the BT Home Hub? A DHCP entry? Sometimes DHCP can be a pain. I remember once I could never get DHCP via my wireless access point, then at some point, it just started working :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Thanks Adam I'll stay away from kde4, I've even gone back to 3.5 on my pc. I don't think kde4 is ready for mainstream yet. I tried going back to dhcp with no luck whatsoever. The router has always replied to a ping without exception prior to 2009 and still does if I boot up into 200.0 Ian, yes it was a dhcp entry that I deleted. I ony get the entry back if I boot up into 2008.0. Even with a static ip address the laptop does not show up in the list until I boot up into 2008. I deleted the entry again for the static address to try dhcp as suggested by Adamw, but, it will not register again till I reboot the laptop into 2008 and restart the router. Which I am going to do now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 You may wish to "urpmi task-lxde" on that laptop. You will get surprised on how snappy and responsive the DE is. Of course LXDE is far from being perfect or complete: No clipboard manager (you can use parcellite which is light and pretty OK), no Gnome applets integration on the panel, lxterminal is plain fugly (you can use sakura, which is fine, tabbed and even offers pseudo-transparency), and obconf (the graphical tool for the window manager config) offers access to just a small portion of the openbox settings. But it's a new project, and it's getting better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Thanks for the suggestion Scarecrow. Maybe I'll try something like that when I get this network card sorted out. I'm just in the process of installing 2009 yet again. It is doing my head in at the moment, but I will get there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Still going with this. An update: I have managed to get some info from ifconfig & iwconfig as below. ifconfig:- wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-60-B3-68-E5-0F-D0-8E-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:169 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:12308 (12.0 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:68:E5:0F inet addr:169.254.31.244 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:10364 (10.1 KiB) TX bytes:39480 (38.5 KiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 iwconfig:- lo no wireless extensions. wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"*********" Nickname:"*******" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:14:7F:A7:89:35 Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry short limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:A01C-AF7A-C793-04EA-A49E-28CB-FA Security mode:open Power Management:off wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"*************" Nickname:"**********" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:14:7F:A7:89:35 Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry short limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:*********************** Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality=32/70 Signal level=-65 dBm Noise level=-98 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Also some output from syslog which may be of use drakconnect[3105]: No settings found for driver "hostap_cs" in category "network::connection::wireless" kernel: wifi0: invalid skb->cb magic (0x0000003c, expected 0xf08a36a2) One question I have is how do get the card to use the module orinico_cs instead of host_app please? In other distributions of Mandriva orinoco_cs is used. Thank you for your patience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Check /etc/modprobe.preload and put orinoco_cs in there - and if host_app is listed place a # in front of it to comment it out, and then reboot. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Thank you Ian but I was ahead of you there and tried it. Something just put it back in modprobe.conf. I assume the hardware must be listed somewhere and has the said driver assigned. Have you any idea as to where to look? I seem to remember a long time ago using commands and utils to set up hardware, of course I can't remember what they were. I think before the time when these things were put into gui's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Or try in /etc/modprobe.conf options orinoco_cs I do this for a usb attached HSPCA internet modem I have, except with usb_serial as the module to load. I don't know for sure if this will do it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 :banana: Success, it was the options line in modprobe.conf along with the orinoco_cs driver. Well done and many many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Should we tell that Adamw fella how it's done? :D :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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