Can't access network even though wireless card is working
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Can't access network even though wireless card is working
I currently have Mepis 3.3.1 installed and have a netgear wg311v2 card. I have installed the drivers using ndiswrapper. Then I loaded the module using modprobe ndiswrapper. So now the card is working but I cannot connect to the router on another computer in my house. In Kwifi manager if I hit scan for avaible networks it lists my network but then I don't know what to do from there. I can't even highlight the listed network.
I have never used kwifi. What happens if you (as root) type
# ifconfig wlan0 up # or whatever is your wlan interface
# iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
# iwconfig wlan0 essid <your essid>
# dhclient wlan0 # given you have dhcp in the wlan.
You should get different messages about the attempt to get an ip address from servers dhcp daemon, and the ip address itself at the end.
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