Wifi configured with ndiswrapper now what?
I am sorry to bother with such a newb question.
I have a dell 600m running suse 9.2and xp. I just set up the internal wifi card (dell truemobile 1400). I used ndiswrapper and the driver bcmwl5(.sys &.inf). I got through the procedure fine with the help of a nice wiki at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. How do I get the card to "work" now? With xp the card will tell me when a ap is near or available. I would like to set my card to connect to my work ap + my friends AP + any ap anyone is willing to share. Regards, Blair |
You should be laughing. You now need to
Code:
modprobe ndiswrapper Code:
iwconfig wlan0 essid thenameofyournetwork Regards Chris |
I rushed that last post cuz I was doing to many things at once...
I understand how to get it to connect with my network. I know my settings. I was looking to use on campus...many people have free ap's. How would I be able to connect to their ap's without the info? Xp tells me the ap's are there and their essid and whether its wep encypted or not. I am not sure how that works in linux... Would I have to run a program like kismet to get the info on ap's then config wireless card with that info? I know this is an easy concept I just can't seem to get it to "click" in my head. Regards, Blair |
no need. just run
Code:
iwlist wlan0 scanning Regards CHris |
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Thanks, Dustin |
You need to re-run the install and then the driver install, both as root. Make sure there are no errors then try again.
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The driver looks good and works when I enter my home network info.
I just wanted wireless roaming which I do not believe is the same in linux as in windows. Blair |
Well, not yet. There are several projects underway to get it up to speed in that sense. You may want to look at Network Manager from Red Hat.
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I will check that out. thanks.
I also saw something "wpa_supplicant" somebody said would do roaming. I have not had time to check it out. Regards, Blair |
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