On May 2, 3:47 pm, Jason <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there anyway of getting wireless setup on a Linux build?
I seem to remember a couple of things.
1. Doing it from the GUI was extremely easy.
2. For some reason I had documented a whole pile of stuff. So,
having not done this in quite some time, I will simply post what I had
to see if it benefits you and the GUI stuff didn't work.
Wireless
Download and install ndiswrapper.
check http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper for current
stable version
wget
http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz
cd ndiswrapper-1.53
make distclean
make
sudo make install
Download and extract a Windows based Broadcom driver.
mkdir R140746
wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140746.EXE
sudo aptitude install unzip
unzip -d R140746 R140746.EXE
#
# this will extract the required bits from the Windows driver
sudo ndiswrapper -i R140746/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf
Load the ndiswrapper kernel module and check dmesg.
sudo modprobe -v ndiswrapper
dmesg
You should see something like this.
ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006,
4.100.15.5) loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low)
-> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 16
wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:e3:dc:14:88 using NDIS
driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS
Network Adapter', 14E4:4328.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA,
WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
Use "sudo iwconfig" to see that wlan0 exists, you should see
something like this
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with
version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to
version 20.
Some things may be broken...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-
Associated
Bit Rate=130 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 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
Now, connect to an existing unsecured wireless network ("HomeBase"
in my case) with
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid Jacksprat2007
Now doing "sudo iwconfig" should give you something like this.
Note that
"ESSID:", "Access Point:" and various other values are now filled
in.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with
version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to
version 20.
Some things may be broken...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"HomeBase"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
00:19:E3:E2:A6:E5
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:60/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise
level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid
frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed
beacon:0
Now that the ndiswrapper kernel module is working and the wlan0
device is
created, you can fetch a DHCP address and then the normal
"ifconfig" will
show the IP assigned to the wireless network.
sudo dhclient wlan0
To test, use "ping" but tell ping to use the wireless IP as the
source of
the ping otherwise it will use the wired network as default if
that's
enabled. "192.168.2.53" is the IP of my AppleTV wireless network
side,
"192.168.2.200" is my MythTV backend. Change these to reflect your
network
settings.
ping -I 192.168.2.53 192.168.2.200
To finish up, the "-m" option on ndiswrapper creates
"/etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper" and edits "/etc/modules" and add
"ndiswrapper"
so that it loads at boot time. Setup "/etc/network/interfaces" and
you are
done.
sudo ndiswrapper -m
# add ndiswrapper to "/etc/modules"
# add ndiswrapper to "/etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper"
Example of a DHCP setup for "/etc/network/interfaces".
# wireless network interface (DHCP)
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
Example of a static IP setup for "/etc/network/interfaces" using
WEP.
This has the WEP key already specified.
# wireless network interface (DHCP)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-key myWEPkey
wireless-essid mySSID
auto eth0
auto wlan0
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