Help with Wireless setup

[ck81]

Hi,

I had referred to these forums before in regard to help with setting up wireless in suse 10.2 linux on a Dell 2200 Inspiron with built in broadcom wireless card (bcmwl5 driver).

I was able to connect earlier but not able to do so. I tried to reconfigure my wireless card by downloading ndiswrapper and going through the necessary steps. My driver is recognised, hardware is recognised and I am get something when I do iwconfig wlan0. I disconnect my eth connection but I am unable to go to any website using browsers. I tried to ping my router and it shows that packets were transferred. I also tried to ping another IP and it shows that packets were transferred successfully. I am not sure why I am unable to go to any website using my browsers.

I would greatly appreciate if anybody can help me out.

Thanks,

Vish

[namelessone]

Is it possible that you do not have an IP address assigned to your computer?

[bluemanfu]

Hi, I'm a total newbie with Ubuntu, I have downloaded the disk on my new computer, but I can't get on line. My wireless card is a Netgear 54 mbps. wireless adaptor, WG311 v3. I've been trying to figure it out but I'm alot computer illiterate. I have read that I'd have to download "ndiswrapper". But how do I do that since I can't get on line? Any help would be appreciated.
Bluemanfu

[Juan Pablo]

Is it possible that you do not have an IP address assigned to your computer?

I believe DNSs are the problem here, since you can ping other computers on your network, try to ping to 66.94.234.13 to confirm

[MikeTbob]

Hi, I'm a total newbie with Ubuntu, I have downloaded the disk on my new computer, but I can't get on line. My wireless card is a Netgear 54 mbps. wireless adaptor, WG311 v3. I've been trying to figure it out but I'm alot computer illiterate. I have read that I'd have to download "ndiswrapper". But how do I do that since I can't get on line? Any help would be appreciated.
Bluemanfu

Hi bluemanfu and welcome to the forums.
It would make it easier for yourself and everyone else if you started your own thread here http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wireless-internet/
And yes NDISWrapper is more than likely the file you need.
More than likely, you need to download it on another computer and burn it to a disk if thats possible.

[bluemanfu]

I believe DNSs are the problem here, since you can ping other computers on your network, try to ping to 66.94.234.13 to confirm

How do I find out what the ip add. is.
I found ndiswrapper and downloaded it. Now what? Thanks for replying.

[bluemanfu]

Hi bluemanfu and welcome to the forums.
It would make it easier for yourself and everyone else if you started your own thread here http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wireless-internet/
And yes NDISWrapper is more than likely the file you need.
More than likely, you need to download it on another computer and burn it to a disk if thats possible.

I was born Ft.Worth,
I did find ndiswrapper and downloaded it but now what?

[MikeTbob]

I was born Ft.Worth.

Cool Beans!
I wasn't born here, I'm from San Antonio, but I got here as fast as I could. =-}
After downloading ndiswrapper you need to extract it.
Let's say you download it to /home/username/
open a terminal and log in as root
su - (hit enter, then enter root password)
change to the correct directory
cd /home/username
unpack it
tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz
cd to the newly created directory
cd ndiswrapper-version
then follow these instructions
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...n#Installation

[bluemanfu]

Thanks for the info Mike. I'll try it as soon as our company leaves tomorrow. I still have relatives there in Haltom City and around. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Gary