Sam Preston schreef: > 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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