Card seems to be working but no internet

output of iwconfig

warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with version 14 of wireless extension, while we are using version 12. some things may be broken...

wlan0
IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:80:c8:1d:ac:2f
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power: 0 dBmRetry min limit:8 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: 0ff
Encryption key: off
Link Quality:60/92 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-100 dBm
Rx invalid nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt: 0 Rx invalid frag: 0
Tx excessive retries: 0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon: 0

output of ifconfig

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:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5584 (5.4 kb) TX bytes:5584 (5.4 kb)

wlan0
Link encap:Ethernet
HWaddr: 00:90:96:3A:0A:F7
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets: 10 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
TX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes: 3192 (3.1 kB) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

when I do iwconfig wlan0 essid myssid I get error
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; function not implemented.

Sorry, I didnot mention, I am running vector linux (similar to slackware) on vaio laptop

Please help me I am really frustrated with this. it has been 2 days since I am trying without any succes.
Thanks in advance

This looks like an admtek card. Is it? in other words what driver module is loaded for it? use lsmod to see. Is this pci or cardbus or usb? Also, what kernel version is running?

It is prism and all the modules are loaded.

I did ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.108 up
and it displays the ip addres Bcast 192.168.0.255 and netmask 255.255.255.0.
I am getting reply from 192.168.0.1 when I ping. I guess this is the ip adress of my router (D-Link router with DSL connection at home)
Also I am getting reply from the other computer on the lan 192.168.0.105 but with www.google.com it says unknown host

check your /etc/resolv.conf file, it should have a line like this:
nameserver 192.168.0.1

resolve.conf is empty. Shoud I directly write this line into it? Or do I need anything else, any script...

no that line should do it, and no need to reboot or restart anything either. of course the file in question is resolv.conf, not resolve.conf.

Hi akaBeaVis,
After entering nameserver into resolve.conf it is able to locate the ipaddress. When I run ping www.google.com, it says...
PING www.google.akadns.net (216.239.37.99): 56 octets data
sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: sent 64 octets to www.google.akadns.net, ret=-1
sendto: Network is unreachable
--- www.google.akadns.net ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

route -FC shows Gateway as 192.168.0.1 I am still missing something.

sounds like maybe your router settings are such that this card is not allowed out of the localnet. also, what does the log say when you try to ping?

one more thing, is this the linux-wlan-ng driver? if so, it has it's own proprietary control program which you use in place of iwconfig, I think it's wlanctl-ng. I don't own any prism devices (yet) so I'm kinda foggy on that.

The same card used to work with the same router with red hat and windows. What is the location of the log file?
Thanks

Ah, well that is different then, unless you've changed something on the router it's probably not worth bothering with, but I would check /var/log/messages starting from the the end and working back, there might be a clue in there. Obviously something is blocking you from reaching beyond the local network, you can get dns, but nothing more, maybe some security settings and/or iptables stuff in vector?

Hey akaBeaVis!
I finally did it. I don't know how, but adding nameserver to resolv.conf ip address and default gateway to the routing table. I really thank you for all your help. It helped me a lot and got something to learn.

Thanks again buddy

good work!