Rama Murthy Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Hello, I have installed mandriva 2009 yesterday. Everything works great - but the wireless networks. Windows XP detects two wireless networks as shown in the screenshot attached. But, Mandriva detects none. I don't think there is any problem with the installation or drivers but.. not very sure. Here are some of the outputs you might be interested to look at. [root@localhost rama]# ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb) [root@localhost rama]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 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 Thank you for your help, Thank you for your time :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Try doing this in a console window, and see if you get any results: su (enter root password when prompted) iwlist wlan0 scan if you see any results, you are seeing access points but is strange if you see them here and not in the gui tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted September 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Try doing this in a console window, and see if you get any results: su (enter root password when prompted) iwlist wlan0 scan if you see any results, you are seeing access points but is strange if you see them here and not in the gui tools. Hi Ian, Thank you for the reply. I am not able to see any wireless networks in iwlist as well. It says network is down. Here is the output. [root@localhost rama]# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down [root@localhost rama]# Did I miss anything in the installation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 You could try: ifup wlan0 first and then retry the scan command and see if it's any better. Otherwise, I'd say there's some sort of problem with the ndiswrapper stuff - maybe wrong driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted September 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 You could try: ifup wlan0 first and then retry the scan command and see if it's any better. Otherwise, I'd say there's some sort of problem with the ndiswrapper stuff - maybe wrong driver. When I try ipup wlan0, it gives this message- Error for wireless request "set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on devise wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Another wpa_supplicant instance is already running for device wlan0 Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted September 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 When I try ipup wlan0, it gives this message- Error for wireless request "set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on devise wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Another wpa_supplicant instance is already running for device wlan0 Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted September 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Hi, I have read in one of the forums "http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/error-error-for-wireless-request-set-mode-8b06-invalid-argument-roaming-506735/" that they got rid of this error by change from Mode=Auto to Mode=Managed I did the same thing in configure network option. It now doesn't say invalid argument now. It just displays this error message- Another wpa_supplicant instance is already running for device wlan0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted September 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 Hi, I have read in one of the forums "http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/error-error-for-wireless-request-set-mode-8b06-invalid-argument-roaming-506735/" that they got rid of this error by change from Mode=Auto to Mode=Managed I did the same thing in configure network option. It now doesn't say invalid argument now. It just displays this error message- Another wpa_supplicant instance is already running for device wlan0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 After changing this, I suggest you reboot and see if it's any better. Otherwise, you need to kill the wpa_supplicant process before reconfiguring your card. If that still doesn't work, follow the ndiswrapper wiki and make sure you have the right Windows driver for your card. The lspci output generally will tell you which version you should be installing, but the ndiswrapper wiki tells you exactly how to go about all this. Try the above first though, killing wpa_supplicant, and then reconfiguring to mode managed and see if it's any better after that. If not, you'll need to check your driver versions with ndiswrapper wiki and make sure you have the right version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Hi!! Thanks everyone for all your help!! I was trying for solution and have found this thread in our forum https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?/topic/29019-nvidia-controller-ethernet-solved It advised me to add adding forcedeth to /etc/modprobe.preload. I just did that and its working great now!! Thank you for your help and time.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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