Wifi Problem
 

Hi

I have recently installed Fedora Core 5 on my laptop. I have an accesspoint and PCMCIA Wifi card for my laptop.

Fedora recognises my Wifi-card and can detect the accesspoint/router, but its like there is problem with the communication between the two.

Then ever I try to connect to my wireless-router, I'm prompted with a window which requires me to type the WEP-access key.
I type the key for the router, and wait for a connection.

Its like they don't understand each other? Can the problem be that Fedora is listening on a wrong channel?

Sincerley
Fred

Wep
 

Have you tried turning off WEP and seeing if it can connect without the WEP on. and dose the card connect with other OS 's?

Yes I used the card with Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional.

Then I de-activate WEP Encryption on router, then I'm able to connect to my accesspoint. Can it be that the driver which Fedora uses doesn't support WEP?

I have searched it and found a file called NDISWrapper. If I understand correctly I can use this software to convert a windows driver into a Fedora driver?

Best Regards
Fred

p.s.

How do I WPA to work in Fedora?

Hi EUMan24,

It's possible that the driver might not support WEP. What's the brand and model of your wireless card?

Yes, the NDISWrapper is designed to be a type of layer between the kernel and the windows driver. I've never really set it up before.

To get WPA working, you need to use wpa_supplicant to do the encryption and authentication handshake before you bring up the wireless network interface. FC5 comes with it, though you may have to install it (yum install wpa_supplicant).

Hope this helps,
moniker117

Hello

The card I use is Asus WL-100,

Is the any problems with this card?

/Fred

hi EUMan24,

sounds like there might be. try using the ndiswrapper so that you can use the windows drivers in linux. i'm afraid i'm not familiar with how it's configured. this website might help.

http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/...g-ndiswrapper/

good luck,
moniker117

Hi

I have look through the list and I can only find a Asus card called

WL-100G. My card is called WL-100. Does't mean that ndiswrapper doesn't support the card?

/Fred

hi EUMan24,

i'm afraid i don't know. if the card is not listed it probably means no one has tested it before. theoretically, it should work with any card since it's using the windows driver. give it a try and let us (or them) know how it works.

moniker117

UPDATE,

As of now WEP encryption works :D

But why does't the PCMCIA card not go active then I login in Fedora?

I need to push the button "activate" in the Network Manager.

/Fred

hi EUMan24,

that's awesome! so you didn't end up using the ndiswrapper?

if you go into the network configuration screen (system-config-network) and edit the profile for your network card there's a checkbox labeled "Activate device when computer starts" under the "General" tab. make sure it's checked. next time you run linux it should try to activate it.

moniker117

I'm not sure what I did. But anyway WEP works now. But I have no idear on how to get WPA to work :confused:
WPA suplicant installed.


I have the check button "Run on startup" checked off under Network Manager,but I'm still forced to push push "activate" everytime I start the OS.

/Mads