Hey all,

I took the plunge into mandrake 10.1 last night, and it's my first venture into Linux so bear with me! You're working with a real n00b here. I found ndiswrapper, loaded it onto my linux box, installed the drivers for my adaptered, and it seemed to work good. ndiswrapper -l yields my driver, saying drivers found and hardware found. In the system tray, it says that I am connected to wlan0. I've set my IP to 192.168.0.4, subnet 255.255.255.0, and gateway to 192.168.0.1 (ad hoc network host). DNS is also set to 192.168.0.1. Unfortunately, not only do i not have an internet connection, but i can not ping 192.168.0.1, or anything else for that matter. iwconfig yields the following:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:6D:57D
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:66ff:fe6d:57dd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 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:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21 Memory:ff9fe000-ff9fffff

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Eric

Are you sure that's an iwconfig output? It looks more like an ifconfig. Post up an iwconfig and that might help a bit more - the above statement looks fine so far.
Regards
Chris

Oh yeah, Welcome to Linux and LinuxQuestions!

Thanks for the welcome! And you're right, I had my commands mixed up. Here is the iwconfig output, which seems to show that there is indeed some problems...

eth1 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ERICHARE"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462 GHz Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-32 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8 Missed beacon:0

Yes, you'd be right. Your mode is set however your ssid is not. Once your card associates with your network it will fill in the the "Cell" area which is basically the MAC address of the card it will connect to. If you type
iwconfig wlan0 essid <the name of your ad-hoc network here>
what does it do?

Hello,

I have two laptops - one is running Fedora Core 3 and the other Debian. The laptop with Fedora is using the Netgear W511 network card and the Debian laptop is using the Intel Pro 2200 wireless network card.

1.I can't seem to get the cards to communicate in Ad-Hoc mode.

2. The laptop running Fedora, does not allow for changes to the wireless configurations using iwconfig very easily. If the ESSID is changed, the change doesn't take effect immediately. On issuing the following command :

iwconfig eth2 commit

the result is that a screen saying that "no wireless extensions" is presented for the device

Help !!! What could be wrong ?