Greetings All,

I am somewhat new to Linux and having a bit of difficulty trying to access the Internet through a wireless network.

The network itself works fine. The network card (Belkin F5D6001) works pretty well from WindowsXP and even Windows ME.

The story from Kubuntu is less pleasing.

The NDIS driver for the card was copied from the Cd that shipped with the Card. ndiswrapper(1.0rc2) ships with Kubuntu 5.04 which is Linux 2.6.10
The rigmarole about ndiswrapper -i and ndiswrapper -l works fine, as does ndiswrapper -m. iwconfig and ifconfig are available on Kubuntu.

ifconfig wlan0 up establishes the interface
ifconfig wlan0 <192.168.0.68> assigns a static address to the wireless NIC.

ping 192.168.0.68 works fine. The netmask is 255.255.255.0. The mode is Auto (attempts to set Managed always end up as Auto. Attempting to set essid to the name of my network is reported as ESSID off/any.

On windows, the default gateway is setup to be 192.168.0.1 as is the DNS.

However ping 192.168.0.1 fails as does ping 192.168.0.n where n is 1 to 254 excepting 68. Subsequently attempts to define a default gateway (192.168.0.1) apparently succeed but nothing gets through.

The link level reports a 100% connection and encryption is off. For the time being the network does not use encryption or WEP.

ping to the broadcast addresses 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.255 appear to work.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks In Advance
RB

Have a look at my reply here. I think you need to set up your gateway with route and edit your /etc/resolv.conf file. This is stuff dhcp usually takes care of, but you need to do manually if you set a static IP.

Thanks for the reply.

nameserver was set up as 192.168.0.1.

Having had a little beauty sleep, I am thinking there may be other issues and solutions.

Somewhere during the installation something reported
Privacy: WEP

The Access Point I am using has problems with WEP and, accordingly, it is switched off (insecure I know but better than nothing). I started to build the RTL8180L driver last night and noticed that there was a rider that WEP could be turned off by a one line modification to the source code. Last night was not the time to do it but looks like the idea is worth investigating.

Its certainly a bit curious: link level working fine but nothing getting through (TX RX counts all zero)

Regards
RB

I'd still be tempted to add your ISP's nameservers to the list. In theory pointing at your router should do the trick, but all routers are not created equal. The other thing is did you use route to set your gateway to the router? That can stop you cold if it isn't set properly.