wireless - not connecting

[petersk]

I have a friend who has Xandros on a desktop machine who is too far away from the router, so needs to connect wirelessly. I'm familiar with a few linux distros, but not Xandros, but I figured I could help since I'm pretty good with Kubuntu.

Well, nevertheless, I'm not as good as I thought I was. Here's the setup:

Xandros Pro 4 using kernel 2.6.18-dcc.uni using wpa_supplicant 0.5.5

I installed a WG311 from linksys since it seemed like people in various linux forums were able to get it working.

And, indeed, after doing the ndiswrapper thing (ie, installing the windows driver), I can do a
$iwlist eth0 scanning
and it will show the two wireless access points and various information about them.

Unfortunately, that's it; it will NOT connect to the WPA SSID (which uses a passphrase). It seems attached to eth0 (instead of wlan or ath0) and the "built in" network management tool (which is pretty good by the way), seems to allow making a WPA connection.

Some interesting things to note is the the SSID has a space in it and when I looked at the xandros-created /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.eth0, it only put the first word in the "network = {" part. I tried fixing it and rerunning wpa_supplicant -Bw -c/<file> -dd , but it still couldn't get an ip address.
I also tried "forcing" an ip address with ifconfig eth0 <address>, still nothing -- of course I didn't set a gateway or DNS server because I couldn't remember how to do that.

I tried hand connecting a number of ways including using dhclient on eth0, but it doesn't get an IP address.

Any suggestions?
Kurt

[MikeTbob]

I'd have to say, start here and post the required info back into this thread.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html