Wifi Successful .... so far

[joeb1990]

So i used ndiswrapper and was successful I ran the Kwifimanager on Slax and it is picking up a linksys (ad-hoc) and linksys with a quality of 31 for connections. Either one i connect to i cannot get any sort of signal to recognize or browse the internet.

Also, do i need to set my Ip address and etc. it gave me the DNS but do i need to go and run an ipconfig in windows quick to see what i need to put for an Ip

[Juan Pablo]

You are probably using DHCP to get connect

try this

dhcpcd wlan0

or maybe

dhclient wlan0

both as root of course

[joeb1990]

ran both of those in terminal and i still couldnt pick up a signal

(please explain what these will do haha) im a HUGE newbie

[Juan Pablo]

They will to get you an IP automatically from the the ISP's server
Please post

iwconfig
ifconfig

output

[joeb1990]

iwconfig

root@slax:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan1     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"linksys"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: 42:83:0D:F0:F3:F7
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth1      no wireless extensions.

root@slax:~#

ifconfig

root@slax:~# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1c:26:41:43:f2
          UP BROADCAST 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)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:c0200000-c0204000

root@slax:~#

[waterhead]

What is it that you are trying to connect to?

I connect to an access point, and use managed mode. You may want to switch modes to see if that helps.

iwconfig wlan1 mode managed

For more info on iwconfig options:

iwconfig --help

[joeb1990]

i ran that and nothing happened it just brought up another line in the prompt ran the help command didnt really understand

[waterhead]

After you change anything, run the iwconfig command again without any options. Look to see if it changed.

For more info run the man command for iwconfig

man iwconfig