I am running Ubuntu 6.06 and wanting my Linkysys WMP54G wirless network card to work... I have no access to the router since it is our privided internet in our appartment. I can recognize the networks in my area and the light on the card is going nuts but i can't open internet webpages or anything else really... I will go ahead and post my ifconfig and iwconfig...

Please help, this will force me out of Ubuntu and linux if i can't get it to work. I have to have this working. If someone would just sit down and work it out step by step with me then I would be more than happy to post a howto on it....

would :

iwconfig ra0 essid=<preferrednetworkname>
iwconfig ra0 mode=managed

do the trick?

then dhclient ra0?

I use a ralink-based card too in debian so i might be able to help
you out with some of my config files...

Hi! Thanks for the reply!

For iwconfig ra0 essid=rlwa6668

it returns

For iwconfig ra0 mode=managed

It returns

Is there any output i can send you that would help?

Something like
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid networkname
See this for more - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo

Right, without the equals. But a simple 'man iwconfig' would have
made that clear too

I'm having the same problem. I'll try the suggested solutions and report back.

Google seems to be telling me that we may need ndiswrapper for this hardware. Silly me, thinking I could use a livecd.

OK, upon further investigation it seems my problem is somewhat different from dragonlor's. To make things more sensible, I'll take it to a new thread.

Hey, I just solved my problem. Check your network settings, and make sure that your network key mode is correct. I'd had mine set as ASCII when it should have been Hex.

What card are you using? Because using network interfaces with WMP54G is known to crash Ubuntu Dapper.... usually would crash at initializing network interfaces... ???

Ok, in my excitement I am going to document how I did this, and I don't know for sure exactly which part of it fixed everything, but here it is...

For google: this is how to get your WMP54G wireless wlan card working in Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 if it has a RT61 driver which means WMP54Gv4.1

DO NOT USE ndiswrapper as its current version is not made for RT61 drivers...

***Keep in mind that my system is probably pretty muddled with a combination of fixes because after I got desperate I tried every fix I could find, so I will list everything I did in order, so if you are also depserate, then this might get you online too:


++++I think this step was important++++
1) I started with a completely new installation next to my old installation after the suggestion from a friend to always install linux twice, once for testing, and once for implementing all of the fixes you find without clouding your system with things you don't need.

++++I do not think this step was actually part of my solution since it is essentially the same thing as wifiRadar and that didn't help me one bit, you can use "iwlist scan" to accomplish the same thing++++
2) I installed ra0dar... you can find that here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ra0dar just use the README, it explains everything pretty clearly.

++++This is a maybe, the driver is installed, so technically it could be part of the solution++++
3) In looking for more info, I stumbled across this open-source driver, and I installed that (also thinking that a new install of Ubuntu couldn't be far ahead with so much already installed on a new installation): http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/r...ar.gz?download
This driver requires that you have updated headers, the headers from the liveCD worked for me, there is a description of how to use the LiveCD as a repository here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=471603

++++This was too close to me actually having internet for it not to be a part of the solution, plus it was OS-specific...++++
4) I used the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo HOWTO link from Beagle following each step EXCEPT the part about the headers, I think his were actually older versions... ANyways, the CD repository gets you through that HOWTO.

++++Internet didn't work before I did this, so this definitely had SOMETHING to do with it++++
5) Finally I went into the Network configurations as suggested by whereverjustice except that I left mine at ASCII **he changed his to HEX and that worked for him** (System > Administration > Networking) and activated the wireless connection that it recognized there, also adding my ESSID and leaving the the encryption alone.


Sorry for the repetition guys, but I will repost this to www.ubuntuforums.org because any internet is better than no internat when using aptitude and the online repositories that Ubuntu uses and from there maybe someone can shave this down. Thanks guys, you made my night big time!

Scott

I have a WMP54G, presumably v1 since there is no version number listed on the box. Xubuntu Dapper recognized the hardware immediately. I entered my SSID and WEP Key, and (once I had set the key to HEX instead of ASCII) it worked perfectly.

Damn it! I purchased, actually replaced a working 54g card, with this Linksys card BECAUSE it is listed on the Linux sites as COMPATIBLE!

Now I find out it is not.

"Just works" should read "Just works [if you don't need the internet].

I would think that Linux would cater to Linksys products since they offer quality hardware. I have never had an issue with Linksys products while I was a 100% windoze user and had issues with all others (to include actual MS wireless products).

When I installed ubuntu 6.06 on a dell laptop I had to use the Dell Truemobile 11g card instead of the speedy 54g Linksys one I had been using with windoze for years! What a letdown.

Now I try to get ubuntu running dual boot on my Dell desktop to find the MS PCI card in it is not compatible. I look up the list online of compatible devices, go out and get a Linksys, pop it in (windoze likes it right away, less hastle than the MS one that was in there) I fire up ubuntu. It sees the card, it connects the signal. NO INTERNET and freeze on reboot. Now I have a crapped out partition on my HD.