On Friday 29 July 2005 10:07 am, John Wilson wrote: > On July 29, 2005 06:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Friday 29 July 2005 01:28 am, John Wilson wrote: > > > Well, I finally got the card to work in my laptop after some playing > > > about with ndiswrapper. I've about given up on madwifi even if it > > > looks like it makes life a whole lot easier when it gets loaded. But > > > I'll keep hammering away on that too. > > > > > > Now the issue is connecting to my router. I'm not getting an IP > > > assigned, which may not be a surprise when we get a bit further into > > > this, actually. > > > > > > Part of me, though, is suspicious that I'm also in trouble because I'm > > > either very thick (a good possibility) or I'm just not getting it. > > > > > > To start with the load of ndiswrapper went well... > > > ******** > > > ndiswrapper version 1.0 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) > > > ndiswrapper: driver net5211 (,05/31/2003,2.4.0.71) added > > > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 > > > ndiswrapper: using irq 22 > > > wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:f5:61:56:dc using driver > > > net5211 wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with > > > AES/CCMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig > > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > > > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > > > > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > > > > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"russell.johnshome.lan" > > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: > > > 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s > > > Encryption key:off > > > Link Quality:21/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 > > > dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx > > > excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ******** > > > > > > or at least it appears to have. > > > > > > However at the configuration level I'm facing something I'm not > > > altogether sure of. Sorry for the pngs here. :) > > > > > > In snapshot1 there is some configuration to be done. The nearest thing > > > I can find after nearly endless searching on the net is the country > > > code. I'm not even sure it matches the router at the moment but I can > > > fix that. Outdoor and xchanmode have me baffled. > > > > > > In snapshot2 there are some more options and again I'm quite baffled as > > > to what I need and don't need. Later on there are questions about > > > RTS/CTS and other things which I am familiar with but haven't much of a > > > clue about what, if anything to do with them. > > > > > > One important thing I have noticed is that my card is listening on > > > channel 1 and I know the router is transmitting on channel 6. I'm not > > > sure how to change my card, either. > > > > > > Any and all help would be greatly appreciated as I'm bleeding from > > > tearing out my hair so much. :-) > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > ttfn > > > > > > John > > > > My experience with home network is that most of the stuff you mention is > > not critical to the function. I do see that you don't show a MAC for > > the router in wlan0. So take a look at /etc/sysconfig/ and see if there > > is a file ifconfg-wlan0. I can't remember if you have already gone > > through this. If not, create it and put the following with your network > > info in it instead of what I show. > > DEVICE=wlan0 > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > > HWADDR=00:90:4b:57:ea:5b > > ONBOOT=yes > > TYPE=Wireless > > MODE=Auto > > ESSID= > > CHANNEL=1 > > IPADDR= > > DOMAIN= > > NETMASK= > > USERCTRL=no > > PEERDNS=yes > > GATEWAY= > > IVP6INIT=no > > RATE=Auto > > DHCP_HOSTNAME= > > USERCTL=no > > > > I also have set mine up with static IP addresses instead of the auto with > > dhcp server. HTH > > Hi Dennis, > > Thanks, btw. > > This is my ifconfig-wlan0 > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > ONBOOT=yes > HWADDR=00:11:f5:61:56:dc > METRIC=10 > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > USERCTL=yes > WIRELESS_MODE=Auto > WIRELESS_ESSID=yrr18itta3 > DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient > DHCP_HOSTNAME=192.168.1.1 > NEEDHOSTNAME=no > PEERDNS=yes > PEERYP=no > PEERNTPD=no > > Now, I'm kinda assuming that the HWADDR shown here is of my card on my > laptop. So where do you set the MAC for the router? I do know that so I > need to know where to set it. > > Thanks again. > > ttfn > > John That looks pretty good. The confusing part for me is that these scripts can change depending on where you set up from. So the one thing I don't see is the channel or frequency. Look in the setup gui for your router and see what channel it automatically sets up on. Mine is channel 11 or 2.462Ghz. The router and the nic must be talking on the same freq. Looks like you know as much or more than I do about this stuff but maybe between the two of us we can sort you out. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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