Hey all, I used ndiswrapper and tried following numerous setup guides, and i got the card working, but it won't connect to my network

in my rc.local file i put:
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 192.168.2.1
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <mykey>

but when it boots, my card powers on it says:
.... "Set MODE" .....
SET failed on device wlan0: No such device.
..... "Set ESSID" ....
SET failed on device wlan0: No such device.

I am *guessing* that the device didn't enable in time to set my commands

so, whenever it boots up, i just run the script again, but no matter what I do, my essid is always "ESSID:off/any"

i can pound in iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC a million times and it still will say "ESSID:off/any"

i don't understand it, my link quality is 100/100, and if I do "iwlist scan", my network SMC comes up in there, so it definately sees it!

I am running Slackware so i have no /etc/sysconfig or networking files...any have any idea to help me out? Thanks!
George

Hello and welcome to LQ,
I think its not associating due to the encryption. Try setting the encryption key first and then the ssid. If this doesnt work you could see if it connects w/out encryption.
Regards
Chris

OK, so i modified the rc.local file to this now:

modprobe ndiswrapper
sleep 4
route add default gw 192.168.2.1
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <mykey>
iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

because of the 'sleep', i no longer get the errors on bootup

but i still get ESSID:off/any

thanks!

Ok i don't know if this helps any, but when i type 'route' I get:

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
localnet..............*..............255.0.0.0.............U.........0...........0.........0.......l o
localnet......192.168.2.1.......0.0.0.0...............U.........0...........0.........0.......eth0
localnet.......192.168.2.1......0.0.0.0...............U.........0...........0.........0.......eth0

what i'm concerned about is there is no gateway for my wlan0, it should be 192.168.2.1

thanks!

dhcpcd wlan0 , maybe?
or
ifconfig -G 192.168.2.1


does either work?

ifconfig -G says -G is an invalid arguement

and my DHCP server is off, i'm using static ip so i don't want to use the dhcp command

iwconfig -G 192.168.2.1

If that don't work man ifconfig and man iwonfig and find the gateway parts and go from there.

something just isn't right.... i was able to set the gateway with ifconfig

but now...

i tried like iwconfig wlan0 ap 01:12:xx:Xx:Xx .... and so on, and it won't even set my mac of he access point!

if i look, it still set as 00:00:00:00 and so on...

i even tried "iwconfig wlan0 commit" to force it to make the changes, but still nothing

Okay I think I got it. enable wlan before doing your "route command"

change:
route add default gw 192.168.2.1
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <mykey>
iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

To:
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <mykey>
iwconfig wlan0 essid SMC
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 192.168.2.1

I'm going step by step with you on my laptop and I have to do the route command last.

in the ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.104 ...........

is that supposed to be my routers address or my local address?

cause 104 is my local address

1 is my router

Local.

ok, my WEP key seems to be the problem

when i take the WEP key off, i can connect to my network EASILY

any ideas?

wooooooooooooo problem solved

my security mode should have been "open" not "restricted"

iwconfig wlan0 key open 102938120398120398120398019283019238

thanks everyone

Hey thanks for the WEP key! J/K
Might also look into using WPA instead of WEP. WEP can be cracked really easily. I believe that there isn't a way to crack WPA yet anyways.

I gotta stress this because I have 4 wireless connects in my area besides mine, of the 5 total I am the only one using Encryption. By the way the networks are as followed: a Hospital, a church, a ISP, and a another home user. I only know this because of the names of the Networks. I did however go an tell the hospital about there potential security risk, but they told me that thier tech suport told them they don't need it. Crazy cause they use Windows.