hello,
i installed mandriva 2008.
no error during installation, but i can't make the network working.
here is what happen: i can't join the gateway nor delete route.
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>dmesg
wlan0: ethernet device 00:40:f4:f2:24:9f using NDIS driver: sis163u, version: 0x1000000, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 0457:0163.F.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
>ifconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wifi" Nickname:"moi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:07:CB:56:78:46
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key:3251-6584-2584-9854-2652-5456-7213 Security mode
pen
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:73/100 Signal level:-49 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:240 Invalid misc:28941031 Missed beacon:0
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:473 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:473 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:45335 (44.2 KiB) TX bytes:45335 (44.2 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:F2:24:9F
inet addr:192.168.50.3 Bcast:192.168.50.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fef2:249f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:8502 (8.3 KiB)
>route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.50.254 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 wlan0
192.168.50.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 35 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 35 0 0 wlan0
0.0.0.0 192.168.50.254 0.0.0.0 UG 35 0 0 wlan0
>telnet 192.168.50.254
Trying 192.168.50.254...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.50.254: No route to host
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
>ping 192.168.50.254
PING 192.168.50.254 (192.168.50.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.50.3 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.50.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.50.3 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.50.254 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms
it seems to be a route pb, isn't it?
(i use a wifi-usbkey with ndiswrapper and it looks ok.)
thanks