On 23/09/12 12:25, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 22/09/12 22:43, Dean Ramsden wrote:
On 22/09/12 21:18, Peter Merchant wrote:
The PCMCIA card is a Linksys WPC54g revision 5.
I have spent some time every evening since before last Friday
working on this, and am now giving up and admitting defeat. I'll
move on to my next problem.
Before you give up it might be worth trying a different driver with
the card. A bit of searching on google led me to:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Airnet_AWD154
there you can download a driver which have been known to have
worked with the chipset on the PCMCIA card.
I think 'ndiswrapper -e drivername' can be used to remove the
existing driver and then start again installing the new driver.
I had one of the earlier versions of the card that used broadcom
chipsets myself and had a hell of a time getting 64 bit drivers for
it.
Dean
Genius-almost.
I used ndisgtk to remove the old driver and install this one.
sudo depmode -a
sudo Modprobe ndiswrapper
Start wireless networking and choose my NETGEAR, and IT WORKED!!!!
Stop wireless choose my home network with WPA Personal, and it comes
up with a big screen of Security choices, but none that match what I
have.
Basically 'WPA and WPA2 Enterprise' or Dynamic WEP to start with,
and under the WPA selection 6 other choices, starting ith the type
of authentication.
Peter
Glad to see things are almost working. If it is any consolation it
seems you are not the only one having the same difficulties with this
card.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1412364
It might be worth trying to configure the network manually. Not sure
how much use this will be for you though as it is quite old.
http://tillamookrage.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/getting-wpa-psk-wireless-working-in.html
Oh, found this info too: This driver works with WPA (wpa supplicant -
use "wext" instead of "ndiswrapper" as driver-parameter like this:
"wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext -B")
tested on a OpenSuse 10.3 System.
Hope it helps.
Dean
Ha, That Ubuntu Forum describes it exactly. I have seen others that
struggled too.
Originally I tried with Supplicant, but as it didn't have a native
driver I didn't get very far and was directed to ndiswrapper.
My 3com router is set up with wpa2 personal using TKIP, which is old
and I suppose that I should upgrade my network to AES.
Using the driver that you found, it would only allow configuration for
WEP or WPA Enterprise. That's why the incompatibility.
I tried a manual config, by copying and editing the file for my zyxel
USB stick. NoGo.
Installed wicd. and it came up with a configuration for wpa1/2 with
passphrase or alternatively hex. I tried both and it failed the
authentication, so I might try reconfiguring my router for the AES
authentication later, when it is not in use.
Interestingly, this PC, with a zyxel USB wireless, has a passphrase,
but no specification of whether it is TKIP or AES. I found some files
for the connection in /etc/NetworkManager/system connections, but they
are in hex. It will be interesting to see whether reconfiguring the
router disables this PC and my android tablet.
Peter
Correction . It is my raspberry-Pi that uses wpa_supplicant. How easily
I forget. P.
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