Oh, I think I may have solved some of it.....I think I was able to extract ndiswrapper, but when I tried "make install" I got the following:

# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/myname/ndiswrapper-0.12/driver'
Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-8mdksmp/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/myname/ndiswrapper-0.12/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

OK, you don't have your kernel source code installed. If I remember correctly, Mandrake has an rpm named something like kernelversion-src.rpm that you will need to install. That usually puts the source code in /usr/src. Personally I have a link named linux in /ust/src that points to the source code and that seems to take care of any problems with things pointing at the right directories.

HangDog42

I am able to access the Internet via waln through my Linux box,,,but I tried to ping many sites not only one,,,,but the result that host unreachable!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is there any firewall installed bu default with ndiswrapper???


Second query:

I configured ndiswrapper and it worked perfect with Access Point (AP),say A,,,when I tried to go another area with Access Point (AP) say B ,,,and I tried to boot my linux box ,,,it takes very loooooooooooong time to boot (and it will stuck when it says at boot time: Bring up interface wlan0), and sometimes it does not go through to finish the boot process, and I have to restart again,,,,Why like this?

This happened only when I changed the Access Point, as I said from area A to Area B.

Thanks

No, ndiswrapper doesn't have any firewall capabilities. That is all iptables and you can check your firewall with the iptables -L command. When you say that hosts are unreachable, are you trying by name (like linuxquestions.org) or by IP address?

OK, my guess is that you are set up to ALWAYS try to connect to access point A, and when you are actuallly trying to use access point B, the delay is due to the fact that A isn't being found. A lot of the DHCP clients (like dhclient or dhcpcd) that are used to request an IP have very long timeouts as default. You probably want to check into how the card is being configured and how to change the default. In my Slackware laptop, dhcpcd has something like a 60 second default wait for an IP address. Since I found that way too long to wait, I read through the man page and found I could decrease that wait with a flag. So now my script for setting up the card has a dhcpcd -t 10 command and it will only wait 10 seconds for a response from a dhcp server.

By IP address not by name and I am trying to ping from terminal.

A lot of sites view ping as a security problem and therefore don't respond to them. If you are not having problems reaching sites by protocols you know have to work (like http or ftp), but can't ping them, I don't think you have a problem. You could still post your firewall and we can see if there is anything preventing ping from working from your side.

I realized where was the problem,,, At work the ping has been disabled,,,,therefore I can not ping either through windows nor Linux.

But I faced another problem ,I am trying to configure networked printer,,,which ip address is 10.50.30.52,,,I can ping the printer through Windows and I can print through windows,,,all these processes are wireless ,,, but I can not ping it via my linux box,,i.e. I can not configure my printer to work with Linux box!!!

By the way if the used name of Queue for printer is default,,,,Does that mean we have to type in: Queue ?

I am sending this message through windows OS because Linux does not want to finish process of booting it hung up in the middle of the way!!! ,,I am guessing because that (/usr) file system was nearly full,,,,do you thing this is the reason? If so, How Can I remove some stuff form that directory(/usr), without affecting the stability of Linux system.

Thanks HangDog42

I suppose its possible. I know on boot that some information is stored and if it is trying to store on /usr and can't because there is no room, the boot might hang. As for moving stuff off of /usr, the only things I would be comfortable moving would be software I had installed. If the linux installation put it there, I wouldn't mess with it. If you're wondering where the disk space is being used, the du command is pretty useful. If you need to get into linux to do this, you might try booting into single mode. At least with LILO, there is a prompt when you start booting and if you select the configuration you want to boot to and then add the word single after, you boot into runleve 1, which bypasses a lot of the normal boot. I know GRUB does something similar, but since I don't use GRUB, I'm not sure of the details. A search here should turn up instructions.

I'm largely ignorant on this subjecct, but I do use a wireless print server at home. I've got instructions on how to set it up here

Thannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnks HangDog42 for your detailed explaination .I learned many things from you and I am happy,,,every day I learn something new, Thanks again

My pology it was my mistake, when I expalined the problem,,,the print at work is wired and my laptop is wireless,,,,,I can ping and print via windows,,I have got no problem,,,but Ican not ping ,i.e .I can not configure my linux box.

Have you got any comment about "can not ping which ic bold "?

Is there any diferent between the case that I mentioned and the one that you pointed to in your website ?


Another issue I want to double check with you...

As you know with windows if you have your wireless card you configure that wireless to connect to any AP ,,,just click rescan and it will find for you the APs available in your area...now with Linux box if I configured my box to work with Access Point (AP) say A ,,,and I want to move to another area with diferent AP say B,,,,,,,How can I configure my Linux PC to work with this new AP,i.e. B?

Do I need to change the configuration manualy? or Linux at Boot time it will grap the MAC and IP address for new AP,i.e. B

OK, the fact that you can't ping probably has no bearing on printing. Just because you can't ping doesn't mean you can't print. However, if you can't ping, you probabaly want to post the firewall and see if you are doing something there that is preventing the ping.

There is the iwlist command. If you enter iwlist wlan0 scan that should return a list of AP that are available. Personally I just enter in the new info by hand, but someone has almost certainly written a gui interface to do this. I just don't know what it is.

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If you're interested, I did write a perl script that scans for AP and presents you with a list to choose from. However, I haven't tested it much and there may be an ugly bug or two and it is text based, not gui. I posted it here

Is there any way I can upload to this forum the printed screen ,that I snapshotted for the( /usr )directory from my Windows XP via small program called explore2fs.exe, to show to you,,,because I can not distinguish which file is belong to Linux and which I can remove it!!!

Ok,

So I downloaded the following drivers.

R74092.EXE

and

R76521na.EXE

So how can I unzip / uncompress these on a LINUX system.

I don't have no windows machines. :o)

Shinobi:D

I hate to say this, but you're gonna have to find someone who does. I don't believe those sorts of archives can be extracted in Linux.

Hi Hangdog!

Ok.

Are these CABS files??

Someone told me there was a way to extract these in LINUX. He just could not remember how.

Thanks...