Newbie having problem getting wi-fi connection to work.
Configuration detals are at bottom of post.
I am using a HP Pavilion laptop with an internal Broadcom 802.11g wireless card (BCM94306) and running Mandrake Linux 9.2.
The wireless card works under Windows XP home. I am also able to get a live internet connection under Mandrake with a wired
connection through my National Semiconductor ethernet card. But, I cannot get the wireless internet connection.
This particular Broadcom card did not appear to be supported by the "out-of-the-box" Mandrake distro. So, after some
research, I found others overcoming this problem by using Linuxant's DriverLoader. This seems to have worked in getting
Mandrake to recognize the wirelss card. The card now shows up as "eth1" in the "LAN Configuration" section of the "Networks
and Internet" page of the Mandrake Control panel. In the panel it shows the boot protocol correctly as DHCP, the driver as
"driverloader" and it does pull an IP address when activiated.
It also shows up in the Wizard. I have used the wizard to configure the internal modem, ethernet card, and wireless card. And
with the last question I select the LAN option for an internet connection instead of the modem.
However, "modem" still shows up as the internet connection type on the "Networks and Internet" page -- even when there is a
live internet connection through the ethernet card. I can't find a place in this part of the page to change the connection
type from modem to LAN, but perhaps its not important.
So, I think I'm close here, the wireless card is recognized by Manrdrake, is active, and grabs an IP number through DHCP. But
when I try to load an internet page, I get an "Unknown host"
error. But this doesn't appear to be a DNS problem because even sites called by IP address
have the same error message and do not load.
Any ideas on what I can do to actually get an internet connection up?
Thanks.
/etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 natsemi
alias eth1 driverloader
ifconfig
eth1
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:41

9:93
inet addr: 192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAT RUNNING MUTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:100
iwconfig
eth1
IEEE 802.11g ESSID: "NETGEAR" Nickname: "unknown"
Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.462 GHz Access Poing: 00:09:5B:6F:8E:88
Bit Rate=11MB/s Tx-Power=13 dBm
RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 1/1 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level: -81dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
RX bytes: 5251 (5.1kb) TX bytes: 804 (804.0 b)