I have signal strength of 100% , My wireless connect light is on... When i type iwconfig eth1 it reads my router. But i get no internet. I have ipw2100 installed with the firmware...

Does anyone know what is wrong? I thought my antenna might be broken but it reads my router... could it be a kernal thing?

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is not descriptive enough.

Ususally 'get no internet' means 'i did not setup DNS correctly'

Try 1) ping google.com
2) ping 216.239.57.99

-- if you get no response from 1, but you do get response from 2, then you need DNS.

moving on... what do you mean by 'it reads my router' -- do you have ip... or does it just see your router's broadcast ID?

ok.. i got no response from the first one but i got a response from the second one.

What do i do to get DNS?

when i type: iwconfig eth1
this is what i get;
$ iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"belkin54g" Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel:11 Access Point: 00:30:F12:A1:97
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Powerff
Retryn RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-38 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:55 Missed beacon:0

1) turn smilies off in threads

2) ubuntu is based on debian, so i'll assume their documentation is relevant, and therefore you need:

edit the file /etc/resolv.conf
add lines in the manner: where the IP is the correct IP of your nameserver(s)

which brings to: don't know your nameservers? get onto your router's status page and look there.

edit: here's more than you probably want to read:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5

I am trying the same thing here but i have no response at all. I dont even know where to start here. if i type: iwconfig it returns to me that there are no wireless extensions. My dlink card has its "link" led blinking but the activity led is off all the time. Do i need to download something else and have it transfered to my other laptop so i can use it? With windows the wireless card works well... I am installing it on a 2.6.5 kernel. Thanks for any help.

no wireless extensions is another problem -- you need a new kernel... one with wireless extensions.

do you know how to compile a kernel?


does someone else know where he could find the proper kernel via yum?


edit: i should really break my habit of just skimming...

you have 2.6.5 on FC1... i assume you compiled this yourself? go back and put in wireless support...

Is it a question of kernel compilation? This kernel is supposed to have wireless support already but if you say so i would do it. Maybe fedora core 3 would do it? I could download it and have it installed here.

The point is that i have a blinking led and when i am installing the system i get to choose a pcmcia wireless device but it just doenst work here. Maybe it is a matter of downloading files from linux-wlan.org?

I would rather use this kernel version because it is already installed here and i have all cdroms avaiable. But if it is best to redo it...

Thanks for your reply.

Try dhcpcd wlan0. From the looks of your iwconfig has the access point. I had the same problem and dhcpcd worked for me.

It didnt work. I keep getting "network is unreachable" when i ping and "no wireless extensions" when i iwconfig. If i ifconfig i only get the loopback interface listed.

What am i doing wrong? Am i missing something here?

thanks again,

how bout using ndiswrapper with the .inf file? if already installed and present, modprobe ndiswrapper.


maybe first try: dhcpcd eth0 , you didn't specify if iwconfig sees eth0 or wlan0

I dont have ndiswrapper installed here. And it is not present in my apt-cache so i have to wait for my brother to come back with his flashdrive so i can use it to transfer files from one computer to the other. Where would i find ndiswrapper to download?

Regarding iwconfig it just doenst see any interface there! I am surprised that the card leds blinks (link led) but it is not listed in iwconfig. For me it means that a driver is missing or something like that. What network setup GUI sould i have? Is there any text based?

ndiswrapper.sf.net for ndiswrapper.
anything eth0 or wlan0 in ifconfig?

OK, the nameserver was already in there...

I have found a thread the talks about my problem... It seems that my problem is that I have eth1(wireless) and eth0 (what i am usung now).

I am not too sure.. does this sound right? I am currently looking into changing the eth1 to a wlan0, if it is possible...

BTW.. thanks for the link.. i bookmarked it for further study

Ok.. i firgured it out..

it was the eth0 and eth1 thing. so i went into:

/etc/network/interfaces

This is what was listed:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 net dhcp

So i edited the file and changed the, eth0 to eth1. Then rebooted... now i am on wireless...however I would like to have both still listed.. does anyone know to so this so it works..???

Rock on,

ok.. all i did was:

Computer > System Configuration > Networking

Then i added the wireless connection.. and it updated my:
/etc/networki/interfaces

ALl is working fine!

Peace,