I have installed the driver for my Linksys access point with Ndiswrapper, and given the control center the essid of my network, but it's (SimplyMEPIS) not connecting. Can anyone tell what's wrong from this system log?
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Linux version 2.6.15-1-586tsc (Debian 2.6.15-3.ww1) (ww@mepis.org) (gcc version 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)) #2 PREEMPT Wed Feb 1 17:40:51 EST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000feffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000feffc00 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ff00000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
254MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65264
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 61168 pages, LIFO batch:15
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6890
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0fefadc3
ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL Whitney 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x0feffb8c
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL Whitney 0x06040000 MSFT 0x01000007) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:eff00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 nomce quiet vga=791
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (011ff000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 598.469 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 254612k/261056k available (2355k kernel code, 5952k reserved, 879k data, 160k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1197.23 BogoMIPS (lpj=598618)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e00)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:00:01.0
PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB_._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:01.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: f4100000-f41fffff
PREFETCH window: 20000000-200fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1148318525.437:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
pnp: Device 00:08 activated.
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1800-0x1807, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1808-0x180f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SV1021D, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Memorex 52MAXX 3252AJ, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 19931184 sectors (10204 MB) w/444KiB Cache, CHS=19773/16/63, UDMA(66)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.20 loaded.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
usbmon: debugfs is not available
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
KBC0 MSE0 HUB USB PWRB
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5)
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
pnp: Device 00:0a activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:0b.0 (0104 -> 0107)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x3000, 00:50:bf:e9:6d:3e, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:09.0 (0004 -> 0006)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
gameport: CS4281 Gameport is pci0000:01:09.0/gameport0, speed 1420kHz
Adding 257032k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:1 extents:1 across:257032k
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ndiswrapper version 1.5 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver wusb54g (Linksys,09/09/2003, 0.6.0.0) loaded
wlan0: vendor: 'Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter'
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0f:66:17:a7:f5 using driver wusb54g, 1915:2234.0.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
eth0: link down
ndiswrapper (iw_set_encr:923): key 1 is not set
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (2039 buckets, 16312 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[drm] Initialized i810 1.4.0 20030605 on minor 0:
mtrr: base(0xf8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary
[drm] Using v1.4 init.

I think (from memory) Mepis didn't have the wireless active by defaut - have a feeling I had to modify the Network control to ensure it came up on boot.
Without it, it was a pain, as it hangs waiting for the network, and then again on the time server. Not near the machine - will check later.

I just tried this at the CL: "route add default gw 192.168.1.1," but it didn't work. It said: "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable". What is SIOCADDRT?

Did you give ndiswrapper the drivers for your WAP (wireless access point, aka router), as you said? or for your wireless card, which is what you need to do? A lot of routers come with CDs for some reason or other but you want to use the wireless card's drivers...

just one thought!

The drivers are definitely for the card, not the router. And thanks for correcting me on what a WAP is. I thought "wireless access point" and "wireless USB adapter" (what's connected to this PC) were synonymous.

As requested, I have moved this thread - to Wireless-Networking rather than Networking.