wifi card almost there in kubuntu 5.10 HELP!

[jrsoit]

Hello,

So I installed ndiswrapper and my card driver with the help of this fourm, verified that it worked and recognized my card, and when I go into kwifi manager its getting mega signal and I can see my network, but cant get it to connect to it, this is what I have a [Motorola] WPCI810G PCI Adapter Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
I have my ip address and i think it is dhcp, not sure how to tell, but i think its a static ip cause it changes day to day, I also have all my subnet mask and default gateway info that i obtained through my win xp part with ipconfig.
this is what i have set up so far in linux after installing my card.

/etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth0
auto wlan0(this is all i added after install)


iface dsl-provider inet ppp
provider dsl-provider

/etc/iftab
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces. See iftab(5).
eth0 mac 00:0d:87:9d:9f:74
wlan0 mac 00:0C:E5:47:70:7F(added this to file)

iwconfig info
@kubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"default"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:1F:26:A0
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-86 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:605 Missed beacon:0

@kubuntu:~$

so this is all the info I have so far, all i want to do is connect and it does byitself in windows and I know linux is not win, but i will not give up not when I can smell victory and plus my card does see my network in linux just cant get it to connect,
my network is default, no keys no encryption no mac filtering, just plugged in and go since its off a public router in my apartment complex, can anyone help or do i need more info!

Thanks in advance.
Later

[stokes]

I see your ESSID is set as "default" - you can set it to the actual name of your wireless network using:

iwconfig wlan0 essid essid-name

Also if you use encryption:

iwconfig wlan0 key 10101010101

Then check if your wlan0 interface is up by using ifconfig on it's own. If it doesn't appear in the list, use:

ifconfig wlan0 up

Also, I like to take my wired interface down, so it forces wlan0 as the default adaptor.

ifconfig eth0 down

in U/Kubuntu there is normally a way of doing all of this stuff using a GUI, you would have to hunt around through the settings though. In my Ubuntu install I had to edit /etc/network/interfaces to make sure wlan0 is the default adaptor when the system boots up, otherwise I had to always go into System - Administration - Networking (in Gnome) to disable eth0 and make wlan0 the default. (On my system wlan0 is called ra0 though)

Hope this helps!

[jrsoit]

thanks it works yeah!!!!!

[stupidkid]

Does anyone know how to connect to a wireless network automatically on boot up?
I always have to go to the Wireless Asistant in Kubuntu after boot up and click connect. This gets kind of tedious after a while.

Thanks a lot.