On 8/13/07, Jos van Kan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam Preston schreef:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A215-S4807), and am
> > dual-booting Vista and OpenSUSE 10.2. The laptop has an Atheros
> > AR5007EG wireless NIC. After searching around, I tried installing the
> > ndiswrapper module and the windows drivers, and 'ndiswrapper -l'
> > states that everything is okay. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to
> > get the connection to work. I'm new to setting up a wireless
> > connetion in linux, so I'm not sure if the driver isn't working
> > correctly, or if I'm just not setting up the connection correctly.
> > 'iwconfig' shows wlan0, so I try:
> >
> >> iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network_name"
> >
> > after which 'iwconfig wlan0' shows signal strength, etc. I then try:
> >
> >> ifconfig wlan0 up
> >> ifup wlan0
> >
> > I get a warning that NetworkManager is being notified to set up the
> > DHCP connection, but I don't seem to actually connect -- I can open up
> > a browser and I just get a 'page not found' error. What should I be
> > doing to test this connection? Also, the NetworkManager icon in the
> > system tray still says that there is a connection to eth0, not wlan0.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > -Sam
> >
> Two questions:
> 1. Does wlan0 show an IP-address in ifconfig/iwconfig?
No, I'm not getting an IP address. iwconfig gives:
wlan0: IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"insecure.utah.edu"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0B:0E:26:14:C4
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBmh Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries 676 Ivalid misc:8787 Missed beacon: 0
and ifconfig gives:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:9E:28:79:F2
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:9eff:fe28:79f2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
...
(sorry, having to type all of this since I don't have a
network connection)
I'm not sure what the ip address of the router is -- I'm trying to
connect to my school's network. arp -a doesn't give anything, and
'route' doesn't have any routing info for the wlan0 interface.
> 2. Does your WLAN use any form of encryption like WEP or WPA to connect to the
> router? That must be set up as well. (Use Yast instead of the CLI, that's a
> lot
> easier)
No, it's an open connection. I tried using Yast, but it didn't have
an entry for my wireless card, just the wired interface (that's
probably a bad sign), and I didn't see an appropriate card under 'add
manually'.
>
> To test the router connection ping the router:
>
> ping 192.168.x.x
>
> where x.x have to be the actual values of you router's IP address.
>
Is there another way to get the router's address from the MAC address
given by iwconfig?
Thanks,
-Sam
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