Please help!!!
I have a Dell 600m laptop with a truemobile 1300 b/g mini PCI wireless card.
OS is Mandrake 10
In installed ndiswrapper 0.10 and followed the instructions. I was sucessful at setting essid and key. The wireless light on my router lights up indicating that there is a wireless connection but when I try to access a web page it fails to load.
iwconfig -->
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:90:4B:38:E9:92
Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key: (set) Security mode:restricted
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-39 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:21671 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig -->
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:12:98:FE
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fe12:98fe/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1726 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:104116 (101.6 Kb) TX bytes:7374 (7.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Memory:fafee000-fafeffff
[root@ jpgillivan]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 hardware present
Thanks in advance