ndiswrapper help? .......anyone
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:newbie: here, running slackware 10 on a compaq presario 2500 lappy with a broadcom 94306 inetegrated wifi chipset. i have successfully installed ndiswrapper and wlan0 see's the ap. i dont think wlan0 is routed correctly, meaning wlan0 doesn't have correct ip (192.168.0.8) nor does it have correct gateway (192.168.0.1). here is as much info as i can provide: LSPCI 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem] 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 50) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 50) 00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M ======================================================= IWCONFIG lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"TECRA" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:6F:BF:22 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:8476-7F74-55 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-40 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1729 Missed beacon:0 ======================================================= IFCONFIG eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:7F:74:F1:93 inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8911 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:7372207 (7.0 Mb) TX bytes:1021258 (997.3 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:49:8A:C3 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:80 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:21848 (21.3 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Memory:d4002000-d4003fff ======================================================= any ideas are greatly appreciated :newbie: |
Your wlan0 device doesn't have an ip address and netmask set.
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 x.x.x.x broadcast y.y.y.y netmask z.z.z.z Code:
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1 metric 1 |
Try this.
ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig wlan0 up then do: dhcpcd wlan0 then do: ifconfig and see if wlan0 now has the ip. EXP. Your machine is doing its thing and setting up the first ethernet device it sees which is apparently eth0 which apparently has an ethernet cable plugged in. The commands above will shutdown eht0 and fireup wlan0. dhcpcd will look for an ip for wlan0. If all that works then the challenge becomes making wlan0 the default. I solved that by disabling eth0 via SuSE's YAST. You must have the equivalent in your distro. I'm not familiar with your distro, therefore I cant help on that problem. richard |
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thanx for the help guys but still no wifi for me..... =( rotvogel, i did a lot of what u suggested and that allowed me to bind the correct ip,mask,broadcast to wlan0. i'm not sure if i setup the route correctly? please take a look: root@CMPQP2500:/home/tecra# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:7F:74:F1:93 inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:653864 (638.5 Kb) TX bytes:166014 (162.1 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1057 (1.0 Kb) TX bytes:1057 (1.0 Kb) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:49:8A:C3 inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:25 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:4538 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Memory:d4002000-d4003fff root@CMPQP2500:/home/tecra# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"TECRA" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:6F:BF:22 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:8476-7F74-55 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-31 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:2204 Missed beacon:0 |
here is routing table if it helps:
root@CMPQP2500:/home/tecra# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0 |
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