On July 27, 2005 01:06 am, John Wilson wrote: > Good morning all, > > I'm having a bit of trouble getting my wireless card to work. It's an > AR5213 and so far I have the driver, at least, installed correctly. > > The trouble starts when I try to configure it. For some unknown reason I > can't access my club commercial source(s) because they don't like my email > or something. This only started a couple of days ago so I don't know > what's up with that. I am a silver level member so I should be able to get > at this stuff. :-) > > Anyway, I've left somewhat panic stricken messages in the Club Forum and to > the folks that run my.mandrake.com so I hope to get that worked out soon. > > Anyway, I can't get the packages slmodem and madwifi that I need. > > Now it seems to appear that ndiswrapper is also failing though when I > examine the logs it seems that it isn't at all. From the syslog: > Jul 27 00:17:35 russell kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.0 loaded > (preempt=no,smp=no) > Jul 27 00:17:35 russell loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: main(629): version > 1.2rc1 doesn't match driver version 1.0 > Jul 27 00:17:35 russell kernel: ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:1629): > loadndiswrapper failed (1536); check system log for messages from > 'loadndisdriver' > Jul 27 00:17:35 russell drakconnect[2111]: running: /sbin/modprobe -n > ndiswrapper > Jul 27 00:17:35 russell drakconnect[2111]: running: /sbin/modprobe ath_pci > Jul 27 00:17:35 russell drakconnect[2111]: running: /sbin/modprobe -n > ath_pci Jul 27 00:17:36 russell drakconnect[2111]: running: /sbin/modprobe > ath_pci Jul 27 00:17:36 russell drakconnect[2111]: running: /sbin/modprobe > -n ath_pci > > ... > > Continuing from syslog: > Jul 27 00:18:09 russell wpa_supplicant: No networks (SSID) configured. > Jul 27 00:18:09 russell wpa_supplicant: wpa_supplicant startup failed > > And, from syslog following a network restart: > Jul 27 00:18:36 russell ifplugd(eth1)[3457]: Program executed successfully. > Jul 27 00:18:36 russell ifplugd(eth0)[3384]: client: Determining IP > information for eth0...External network device eth0 is not ready. > Aborting.. Jul 27 00:18:36 russell dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address > type 776 Jul 27 00:18:36 russell dhclient: eth1: unknown hardware address > type 24 Jul 27 00:18:36 russell network: Bringing up interface eth1: > succeeded Jul 27 00:18:36 russell network: Bringing up interface wlan0: > succeeded Jul 27 00:18:37 russell dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 > Jul 27 00:18:37 russell dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 > > In spite of the above when I do iwconfig wlan0 it comes back and tells me > it doesn't exist. This could be the failure of wpa_supplicant or the > version mismatch of ndiswrapper. (????) > > I am running a Firestarter as my firewall, which I'm beginning to think may > not be able to handle this as it doesn't even show wlan0 though it shows > sit0 and eth1, neither of which is active. > > I'd really like to get this solved so any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks for all your help in advance. > > ttfn > > John
Well, at least the access part anyway. I can suddenly download and have done that. Though now I seem to have other things happening but that can be covered under a different post and plea for help should I need it. Thanks to Carroll and Anne for your help. I don't know if anything you guys did assisted there or perhaps it was just the act of suggesting that got through to whatever minor dieties control these things,. Thanks again! ttfn John :-) -- This communication is sent to you from a Microsoft free computer running Mandriva Linux 2005 LE. There are no virii, worms, spyware or other nasties in this email.
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