Mandrake 10.1 wireless card setup

**megaman** · 09-02-2005

I have a Lucent Orinico Gold Wireless card and mandrake automatically finds it when i start to set up my wireless network. I go through and enter the correct settings(to my knowledge) and it says in the panel that it is active yet I get no internet connection and I try to connect but it says failed. Please help I am lost!

**AlexK** · 09-02-2005

can you post the output of the following commands, you need to be root to run them:

Code:

iwconfig
ping -c 4 -I wlan0 <router ip address>
ping -c 4 -I wlan0 www.google.com

replace wlan0 with the name of the wireless card, this name you can get by running the iwconfig command. Also are you using static IP or dhcp?

**megaman** · 09-03-2005

I am using dhcp.

ping -c 4 -I wlan0 <router ip address> (made this>
cvat -p 4 -V rgul1 192.168.1.1

ping -c 4 -I wlan0 www.google.com (made this>
cvat -p 4 -V rgu1 jjj.tbbtyr.pbz

whenever I typed in iwconfig it sayed command not found so I just typed in the other commands and got that. Please help I really want to get my internet working. Thanks.

**AlexK** · 09-03-2005

ok, for the iwconfig command, you will need the wireless tools package installed, you can find this on the mandriva installation media.

Also since I am not overly familiar with the Ornico series of cards, I suggest you see this post and see what drivers people have used to get that card working under linux. (follow the link for the ndiswrapper's page).

**megaman** · 09-03-2005

It says package already installed and the comand still wont work in konsole. and I have got this card working with Fedora core 3 but I wanted to switch to Mandrake because I like the look and feel better. please help

**AlexK** · 09-04-2005

you need to be root to run the iwconfig command, so try this:

Code:

su -
<enter root pass>
iwconfig

**megaman** · 09-04-2005

when I type in su -
it brings up
password:

then I cant type anything? thanks alot for sticking with me man and helping me

**AlexK** · 09-04-2005

when you type the password, the characters won't appear on the screen (it will be invisible).

This is just a security measure to prevent people looking over your shoulder and counting how many characters you have in your root password (personally I just count the number of times they hit he keys)...

**megaman** · 09-04-2005

eth1 IEE 802.11 -DS ESSID: "Snetwork1" Nickname:"Seer"
Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.437 GHZ Access Point: 00:13:10:76:FB

3
Bit Rate: 11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15dbm Sensitivity: 1/3
Retry Limit: 4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:2347 B
Encription: off
Power Management: off
Link Quality= 38/92 Signal level = 56Dbm Noisee level =-94Dbm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt: 0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon:0

that is what I get thanks alot again, what should I do next?

**AlexK** · 09-04-2005

ok, so it seems to be associated with the AP, are you using wep/wpa encryption? If using wep encryption, execute this command as root:

Code:

iwconfig eth1 key xxxxxxxxxxxx

Now try the ping commands:

Code:

ping -c 4 -I eth1 <router address>
ping -c 4 -I eth1 www.google.com

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