ark1

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Hi, i need some help please. I am having issues with my wireless internet connection i am unable to connect. I have installed and run ndiswrapper -i with driver Neta3ab.inf and now when i run ndiswrapper -l am getting the message Neta3ab driver installed and device (168c:001a) present (alternated driver ath5k) When i tried to connect with Wicd i get the error unable to get ip address and i cant ping my router am getting error message network unreachable. But Wicd can see other networks around and mine so i really dont know whats up. I have search lots of threads but it seems none contain my specific issue. To add when im running the iwconfig command i get this everytime.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:" "
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.48 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:Off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beascon:0

My system specs are below.

Dist: Slackware 13
Kernel version : 2.6.29.6-smp
Ram : 1 gig
Hard Drive : 120 gig
Wireless card : dlink wda 1320
Dual Boot : Vista/Slackware

Thanks for any help.

Regards

Ark1

rabbit2345

Well, the ndiswrapper option should really be used as a last resort. Ndiswrapper (from my experience) almost never works the first time. It always needs something to be tweaked before it works. And even when it "works", something doesn't work down later.

OK, I see that ndiswrapper tells you that you can use ath5k. This actually works most of the time, but problems can arise since it is fairly new. I recommend the madwifi driver. I have never had any problems with it, but it depends on proprietary HAL, while ath5k does not.


You can build the madwifi driver from source (source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro...e_mirror=voxel) and unload the ndiswrapper driver to prevent conflicts.



good luck,
rabbit2345

ark1

Hi Thanks for the help. I downloaded and try to install the madwifi driver but everytime i get this error make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

I dont know if am following the proper instructions. All am doing is run the command make clean and then simply make and this is the error i get. And am still not able to get an ip address with wicd. When i checked with iwconfig and ifconfig i get the following message.

iwconfig
no wireless extensions.
eth0
no wireless extensions.
wlan0
IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


ifconfig
eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:d8:44:11:d4
inet addr:169.254.114.27 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17
lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:5b:2d:0a:09
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17 Memory:fba00000-fba10000

Must be something that am doing wrong but i simply cant tell.

Thanks

Regards

Ark1

rabbit2345

I have had the exact same problem and there is one way around it I know of. You just need to build from the trunk it seems.

Just run this command:
svn checkout http://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk madwifi

to an empty folder and try to build again. This worked for me all the time.


good luck,
rabbit2345