ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol

error again, heres what happened:

bash-2.05b# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.115
SI0CSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unkown interface: No such device



my router is 192.168.1.1 , my windows computer is 192.168.1.112

You're very close...

try the same commands using wlan0 instead of eth0 (both devices were listed in your log), and use the address 192.168.1.111, if this works do one more thing from your root console, type route add default gw 192.168.1.1 wlan0 and then type ping 192.168.1.1, if that works you're nearly home free.

Ok heres what happened,

bash-2.05b# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.115
bash-2.05b# route add default gw 192.168.1.1
bash-2.05b# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 octets data


No response or anything after that , its hanging, 1. how do i escape the hang, 2. what does this mean , 3. do i need to do the:

2. type iwconfig eth0 mode managed key 0123-4567-89 (use your router's key, I'm assuming it's a 64bit hex key) essid name (use your router's essid name)
3. iwconfig (all by itself) and see that your settings are there, also see if the Access Point is not all zero's

efore I do the bash-2.05b# ping 192.168.1.1 ?

yes, do the iwconfig stuff before the ping, but after the ifconfig. To escape the ping, type control and c at the same time (ctrl-c), even when it works you have to do that to end the ping(s).

Ok, heres how it went down for the next error:

bash-2.05b# iwconfig wlan0 mode managed key 473088F53F webgirl
Error: unrecognised wireless request "webgirl"

webgirl is the ssid

Here's what the command should look like:
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed key 473088F53F essid webgirl

you're missing the "essid" part, and while we're at it, add your channel in there too, like this:

iwconfig wlan0 mode managed channel 1 key 473088F53F essid webgirl

use your router's channel in place of the "1".

when you get this in with no errors, type iwconfig all by itself and check that there is nothing returned that looks like this: 00:00:00:00:00:00, which means you're not associated with the router, what you're looking for in place of the zeros is your router's mac address.

Heres what the command yields:

bash-2.05b# iwconfig wlan 0 mode managed channel 1 key 473088F53F essid webgirl
bash-2.05b# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID: "webgirl"
Mode:Managed Channel:5 Access Point: 00:06:25:A1:798
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B
Encryption key: 0E30-88F5-3F Encryption mode: open
Power Management: off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:85 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

Ok there it is, what does this mean ?

PING & netscape still don't work by the way.

Excellent, you should be good to go, try to ping your router (and in the future use channel 5) and if that works, try to ping cnet.com by typing ping cnet.com, remember, you have to ctrl-c to stop the ping. If the pings fail, make sure you've done the route command correctly.

Ok heres what happends when I try the route thing:

bash-2.05b# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 wlan0
SI0CADDRT: File exists
bash-2.05b# ping 192.168.1.1
Hang.....


Any ideas what that (SI0CADDRT: File exists) is ?

I need to see the output of ifconfig wlan0, and the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file, which should contain one line like this:

nameserver 192.168.1.1

ifconfigwlan0 yields this:


wlan0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:19:AC:97
inet addr:192:168.1.115 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:608 erros:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:36360 (35.5 Kb)

As for the other heres what happends:

bas2.05b# /etc/resolv.conf
bas: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied

Ok, don't worry about the resolv.conf file at this point. If you can't ping the router then fixing dns isn't going to help. Both your ifconfig and your iwconfig show a perfectly good working device, the problem has got to be with the settings on your router. Do you have MAC filtering enabled on the router? and if you do, you'll have to add this device's mac address (00:06:25:19:AC:97) to that table. That's all I can think of at the moment, and I've got to get some z's soon, so I'll check this thread tomorrow after work and see how you're doing. Don't give up, you're really close: you've the right driver and everything seems to check out, I'll do a bit more research and check you tomorrow.

lasflkjds blasta bat, the router is on channel 5 and i installed eth0 at channel 1 , thats probably the problem since MAC is disabled, but I don't know how to undo what i did to get it on channel 5, ill talk to you about it tommorw im going to hit the sack too. so close aughlhlskjslkjdflkasdflkj haha : )

Ok, i got it on channel 5 but it still doesn't work. Just thought I would post I got it on channel 5 before you read this forum after work.