Wireless problem - driver ok but can't connect

[Liisa]

Hi there,

I've installed a Linksys wireless card (WMP54G) using ndiswrapper and Windows drivers in SuSE 10.0. As far as I can tell, all that went ok, and Linux seems to think it's all ok, but I can not connect to a server or even ping any IP, so something must have gone horribly wrong, but I totally fail to see what. There might be other threads dealing with this issue, and if so, I would appriciate if someone could tell me where, as I've tried searching for a few days now...

Anyhow, I first installed ndiswrapper, then the drivers. The network card uses Ralink RT2500 chipset, so I don't see anything wrong with the drivers:

linux:/home/liisa # ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
rt2500 driver installed, hardware present

It might have something to do with this:

llinux:/home/liisa # modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/extra/ndiswr
Operation not permitted

(some text missing there but you get the idea...)

This is what I get for some other commands (and as I don't get a valid IP, I guess that's a part of the problem...):

linux:/home/liisa # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"SKYXXXXX" Nickname:"linux"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:-2 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:restr
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-120 dBm Noise level:-206 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

linux:/home/liisa # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3848 (3.7 Kb) TX bytes:3848 (3.7 Kb)
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:17:90:EA:7E
inet6 addr: fe80::212:17ff:fe90:ea7e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:214800 (209.7 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

linux:/home/liisa # route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

where I have replaced some numbers with X's. Ifup says this:

linux:/home/liisa # ifup ra0
ra0 device: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 0
ra0 configuration: wlan-id-00:12:17:90:ea:7e
DHCP client is already running on ra0

So, I am not really sure what is wrong, and how to fix it. I first thought it was the DNS but since I can't ping others, that can't be it. Would it help if I set up the IP manually? Or should I try installing everything again? There are Linux drivers for this card but I think they're still in beta and since I have ndiswrapper I don't see how this shouldn't work...

Thanks a lot,
Liisa

[smilliken]

LIISA, did you get any help on this issue or did you resolve the problem? I'm having a similar problem (different hardware) and not having much luck.

Try the iwconfig and modprobe commands from the root.

[Liisa]

Hi,

No I had no luck with it. I've tried with the ndiswrapper and Windows drivers, then with Linux drivers. I got fed up as I was spending a lot of time with this and got nothing else done, so I just put my old network card back in and my flatmates just have to deal with cables going around the house.

Good luck with yours! =)

Liisa