I have installed ndiswrapper, together with the wireless card driver, successfully:

polar:/home/bernie # ndiswrapper -l
netrtuw : driver installed
device (0BDA:8187) present

However, I'm unable to see my router. I can see 2 routers in the neighbourhood:

polar:/home/bernie # iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:01:AF:2D:41
ESSID:"001601AF2D40"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:34/100 Signal level:-74 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 02 - Address: 00:09:5B:AC:A6:12
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:51/100 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

The workstation also runs Vista and XP SP2 and the wireless card works and connects to the router without any problem.I can connect by cable.

Linux: OpenSUSE 10.3
The router is a Linksys WRT54G
The wireless network card is Realtek RTL8187 (as fitted to the Asus P5B deluxe motherboard).

If your ESSID is set to "Disable ESSID Broadcast", you probably won't see your WRT54G unless everything is setup correctly for your linux wireless card (i.e. correct ESSID, correct encryption key, channel, etc).

Typically I start with a basic setup (make sure nothing else is connected to the network when you do it, for security reasons). Disable MAC filtering, Enable ESSID broadcast, disable encryption, etc. Then try to get connected to a basic network. Then turn off ESSID broadcast and change the name and try again. Then add encryption and try again, etc, etc.

pljvaldez, thank you for your reply.
ESSID broadcast is enabled which is why this is very strange. MAC filtering is disabled. I have turned OFF encryption but this doesn't help either. The setting on the router are pretty much the default ones. I have also set the network mode to 'G-Only'.

OK. I'm using SuSE 10.3 with an ndiswrapper driver (broadcom ). I'm connected to my Linksys WRK54G.

1st thing: is your radio light on?

Next thing: have you set the gateway address correctly in YaST2 -> Network Devices -> Network Card -> Routing tab -> Default Gateway? This would be your wireless router IP address. It cannot be 198.162.1.1. If it is, you have a communications loop that will certainly fail. If it is, change it to something else, and put that address in the Default Gateway field. If your radio is on, you will probably get access. Another quick note: I also had to go to the Global Options tab and uncheck Enable IPv6, since I don't have any IPv6 networks handy; set the Network Setup Method radio button to User Controlled With NetworkManager. Bang! I went online.

Hope this helps!

Beads, thank you for your reply.

By radio light, I'm assuming you mean the wireless switch you might find on a laptop? I'm using a workstation so I don't think this applies. In anycase I'm able to pick up neighbouring access points.

I disabled IPv6 but this gave no change.

Default gateway: this isn't set at all. The IP address I use to manage the router is 192.168.1.1. Looking at the router, Under setup > advanced routing, the operating mode is 'Gateway' and the IP address fields for 'Destination LAN', 'Subnet mask' and 'Default Gateway' are all empty (zeros). So ,here I'm a little confused as to what you mean.

Again, as I say, I'm connected to the same router using a cable successfully and my house mate is using the same router (under Windows XP) in the next room.

Sorry about that. I assumed it was a laptop regarding the light . The reason I mentioned 192.168.1.1 is bad, is that it not only is the access to the router, but is your default gateway from linux. The two will argue for access to the router and your computer receive access point. Try changing your router to 192.168.2.1. If there is no response, add that address (192.168.2.1) in the Default Gateway field. Should start working. Remember to release and renew your IP from your router after changing the IP address and reboot it though. If that doesn't work, get back to us, and we'll keep after it.
Good luck!!

Beads, thank you again for your help. I'm unable to try what you say at the moment but hope to in the next day or so, and will let you know,

Bernie

Beads, I changed my router to 192.168.2.1 as you suggest, by this I assume you mean the 'local IP Address' in Setup > Basic Setup using setup. I then lost the connection to the router but it was re-established by pointing my browser to 192.168.2.1. The cable connection remained good but still couldn't establish a connection wirelessly. I tried entering the same address in the wireless configuration using Yast (Network Settings and the routing tab). Still no good. Each time I released and renewed the ip address by typing:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up

I also changed the setting of the (cable) Gigabit Ethernet controller to: Start automatically on cable connection

Still no joy.

Are you using ifup or Knetwork manager, I could not connect with my rt61 using ifup, strangely as soon as I enabled knetwork I got a perfect connection.

Redbook, thank you for your reply. I am using Knetwork manager. I also tried ifug and that didn't help. For me, the curious thing is that I can see neightbourhood transmissions but cannot see my own (even though other laptops in my building can see my own transmitter!).