Wireless Problem, PCMCIA, Fedora Core 3

Vito_Corleone · 11-17-2004, 01:19 PM

I'm pretty newbish. I've searched all over these forums and i cannot find the answer to my problem (could be due to poor searching, i'm not totally sure). I also wasn't sure where to post this, thought this looked the best.

Basically i've finally gotten the driver for my wireless card (Linksys WPC54G) installed, using Ndiswrapper and the driver for another card with the TI chipset. When i do lspci it shows that the card is enabled (although upon first boot, everything is disabled until i modprobe ndiswrapper?!). The problem is that i can't see the card through the Network Device Control, nor can i see the card or driver listed under the Network Config GUI.

I run iwconfig/ifconfig and i see the card, i assign it an IP, nothing, i tell it to pick any ap, nothing, tell it a channel, nothing. I'm stumped, as are some friends of mine whose knowledge FAR surpasses mine. Thanks in advance for ANY help you can possibly offer.

born4linux · 11-17-2004, 01:31 PM

try this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=1

Vito_Corleone · 11-17-2004, 01:55 PM

Upon review of that thread, i'm pretty sure i've passed most of what they were talking about, i have the drivers configured (or so i think) and what not.

The only thing that did look somewhat promising was this piece:

Quote:

Originally posted by rgheck
The WPC54G card works with the ndiswrapper module, available from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. I've got it working with the windows drivers on the Linksys website. I had to edit files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts by hand (horrors!) to get dhcp working and the file /etc/pcmcia/config to get the module to load automatically when the card does. But it's now working like a charm.

Richard

If anyone could maybe go into detail about the part i've outlined in red, it won't DHCP, so maybe what he's talking about would do the trick.

Vito_Corleone · 11-17-2004, 02:06 PM

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:1Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:4096 B Fragment thr:4096 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-100 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

^That is my iwconfig.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:59:7F:13:99
inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:59ff:fe7f:1399/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:653000 (637.6 KiB) TX bytes:824837 (805.5 KiB)

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:1938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2409752 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:2409752 (2.2 MiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:96:67:6B
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:66ff:fe96:676b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Memory:20420000-20421fff

^That is my ifconfig.

Sorry for the seemed post whoring, i'm just trying to provide as much info as possible.

Ps. Also, sorry for the multi colored(ness?), lol, i thought it would be easier to decipher while scrolling through.

khultman · 12-08-2004, 06:51 PM

I'm having the same problem with my WPC54G and Fedora 3. I get ndiswrapper to load the driver, and create a wlan0 interface. I can user iwspy to list the available ap's, and I can set values such as essid and enkey through iwconfig. I've created /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-wlan0

I get no dhcp reply from my dhcp server, and I get no connectivity if I manualy set an IP. I'm using 128bit encryption - however - I get the same results without encryption.

I currently have this card working under Ubuntu (Debian woody) and Gentoo. It works perfectly under both of those distros - using 128bit encryption.

Any thoughts?

trosario311 · 12-23-2004, 01:59 PM

Hi, sorry I can't help but I too am having the same problem. But, I found the kwifimanager does come up and shows my wireless AP. It just will not grab an IP from it. I think it has to do with setting the open/restricted value but I don't know the correct token in the ifcfg-wlan0 file to set that with. Anyone out there go this working? My laptop dual boots WinXP and it works fine under that with the same settings...