ndiswrapper - everything looks fine, but no go

[cw_griswold]

Let me first state that I'm a linux rookie.

Everything that I have read says that when I get the following messages, I should be good to go. But . . . I got nothin'

Here's what I've go so far:
IWCONFIG
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"wyreless" Nickname:"(none)"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:06:25A:35:52
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-56 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0

IFCONFIG
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:B1:26:0A
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:feb1:260a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:650 (650.0 b) TX bytes:650 (650.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Memory:e0206000-e0207fff

Can anyone help me out? I've got all security measures on my router turned off and still can't connect.

[bquark]

What happens when you ping the router? I am guessing that your router is at 192.168.1.1. Try

$ ping 192.168.1.1

[cw_griswold]

I get a sequence like this:

ryanrad@(none):~> ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.781 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.781 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.772 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.766 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.749 ms

I'm emailing from the same computer via cable connect, so I know the router is working. Also, I have another laptop that can connect just fine via wireless running XP.

[bquark]

If you can ping the router then the card is working. What is the sympton that you are having that makes you belive that the card is not working.

[white scorpion]

can you please tell me how you got the card to work???

i'm trying it for three weeks now, with different versions of ndiswrapper and with different versions of linux ( redhat9 and mandrake 10) but both aren't a success, i can't get the wireless to work, although it is the right driver according to ndiswrapper.

could you post a copy of your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file? perhaps i'm making a simple mistake that can be solved by looking at your ifcfg-wlan0 file


thanks in advance =)

[cw_griswold]

My fault bquark. When I pinged it the first time, I still had the cable plugged in. When you said to ping the router, I thought we were testing the router, not the wireless card.

This time I tried it wireless only and received this message:
ryanrad@(none):~> ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

What does this mean?

[cw_griswold]

lepricaun, here's the file you asked for:

BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID='wyreless'
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
_nm_name='static-0'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''

[white scorpion]

thanks!
let's see if i can get mine to work =)

as for your problem, if you ping again and wait for about 20 seconds, you should get an error: NETWORK UNREACHABLE.

i'm having the same problem, so that means that i can't help you exactly with that

b.t.w. this is my ifcfg-wlan0 file:
DEVICE=wlan0
MODE=Managed
ESSID=wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
KEY=open
IPADDR=
NETMASK=
NETWORK=at_home
BROADCAST=
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=wireless


so perhaps you might need to change some things cause this i've got exactly from other people who got it to work.

but i'm gonna try to change some things in my config file, perhaps i will get it to work in combination with your config file...

the best thing i can suggest for you is try some things out in your file with entries of mine, perhaps some things aren't correctly e.g.

you've got this entry

WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'

and i've got this entry:

KEY=open

and i presume they both mean the same thing....

good luck!

[bquark]

My fault bquark. When I pinged it the first time, I still had the cable plugged in. When you said to ping the router, I thought we were testing the router, not the wireless card.

This time I tried it wireless only and received this message:
ryanrad@(none):~> ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

You are not reaching the router, so there is a problem. If it worked you would see the return time like the previous attempt with the cable. Did you end the ping with a ctrl-c? If you do it should tell you how many packets were dropped. Probably a 100% fromthe looks of it.

It has been so long that we have been working on this I have forgotten what I was having you check. I will think about it.