On 21/09/12 13:50, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 21/09/12 09:28, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 19/09/12 22:59, Dean Ramsden wrote:
On 19/09/12 22:02, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 19/09/12 17:21, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 18/09/12 21:50, Dean Ramsden wrote:
On 18/09/12 09:59, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 17/09/12 18:43, Dean Ramsden wrote:
On 17/09/12 17:47, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 17/09/12 13:46, Dean Ramsden wrote:
On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I have been trying to get an obscure PCMCIA card working
under ndiswrapper and I now have it recognised, but it
doesn't connect. I have discovered that the existing config
files were for the usual wireless device that I use and MAC
address specific. I have moved them.
When I try and use the Windows Wireless Drivers program from
the menu, and select the configure driver option, it is
greyed out and I cannot use it. Any thoughts, aside from
pulling back one of the other configs and changing MAC address?
This is on an ancient x30 thinkpad running xUbuntu 12.04.
Yes, The PCMCIA card has a power LED and a Link LED. The Power
one comes on after the Modprobe Ndiswrapper command.
PM.
I'm guessing you've seen this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper and
followed it through. By the sounds of it, the card should be
working fine. I would try changing the MAC address on an existing
config file and see if that works.
What kind of network are you trying to connect to and what
security does it have?
Cheers,
Dean
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Yes, That is the link that I have been trying to use.
My home network has WPA2 encryption and eventually I want to
connect to that. I have fired up a netgear router with Default
configuration, no security, at the moment as a first step. When I
do iwconfig it shows me an ESSID: off/any.
As I noted earlier when I try and use the wireless config tool,
all options are greyed out so I can't edit anything. That's why I
want to find a config file to edit manually.
Above all I am concerned that usually I use a zd1211 wireless USB
stick and it's configuration might be mucking up or somehow
affecting my set-up for the PCMCIA card.
Cheers,
Peter
*** Correction. when I tried to use the wireless configuration
manager out of Ndisgtk it was greyed out.
When I used it from the status line it was OK, I was able to create
a new connection to the NETGEAR, and it showed in iwconfig, and the
link LED flashed. revisiting the configuration showed it to be in
ad-hoc mode rather than infrastructure (I don't know why) and
changing that lost the ability to flash the Link LED.
Problem is, when I was at Clives the other day, we changed the
essid of the Netgear, and I don't remember what to. Time to get the
cable out.
PM.
I wouldn't worry about the greyed-out options on NdisGTK for the
moment, the device seems to be set-up correctly. Which program are
you using to manage your internet connections?
You can look for wifi networks from the command line with 'iwlist
wlan0 scan'.
Dean
Not worrying about those, as the network manager from teh status line
works - Not sure what program it is though.
Here is what I get when it tries to connect:
mike@Pegasus:~$ iwconfig
wlan2 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:66:27:69
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
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
lo no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
The worrisome thing is that the address given for teh access point is
not the address of either of my access points. The Netgear ends in
CF:DA and the 3Com in 89:2C. It is not the MAC of the PCMCIA Card
either. My next step is to edit that in the configuration file ineo
the MAC of my Netgear router.
Cheers.
But what a pain....
Peter
When I noticed that the 00:09:5B is the MAC identifier for Netgear I
had a closer look at my router via the wire. This MAC address above
happens to be the MAC for the 802.11b/g wireless in the router. The
Netgear router has 4 mac addresses, one for the WAN, one for the LAN -
(noted above) one for the 802.11a, and one for the 802.11b. The
wireless ones are NOT noted on the label.
This indicates to me that the Laptop communicates with the router, but
for some reason does not 'stay up'
At this point I need to bring in another computer to use as the wired
one to the router while I play with the DUT, and document every move
on the google docs via this one.
Looking at the output of your iwconfig command there still seems to be
an issue as the link quality doesn't indicate a connection though the
essid says you are connected, interesting.
Does your router have an IP address for admin tasks and can you log into
it with a browser when you connect with the WiFi card?
Also, I forgot to ask but what make/model is the PCMCIA card?
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