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Old 05-25-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Smile USB wireless

Finally i got the USB wireless activated with Ndiswrapper but i still can not get the connection bcos the Access Point address is zero's and the IP address i can get it.

root@slax:~# ifconfig wlan1
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:F1:F5:8C:BB
inet addr:192.168.123.104 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:f1ff:fef5:8cbb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

root@slax:~# iwconfig wlan1
wlan1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:6B75-6E63-69 Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8823 Missed beacon:0

I got a usrobotics wireless router usr8054 but still can't get the connection to the internet via USB Wireless lan.

Please help....
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Did you look at this tutorial?
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ork-linux.html

It tells you how to install ndiswrapper (done in your case), but also how to connect to wireless networks.
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