Linux operator Orinoco gold, Can see wlan's cannot surf
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Linux operator Orinoco gold, Can see wlan's cannot surf
Ok so i have searched this forum and found alot of great advice and it has gotten me to where i am now.
Basically im going to dual boot my laptop with xp home and Mandrake 10 or Suse 9.
I think i got that down ok so that is not the issue.
I bought a Orinoco Gold card and it works great on windows, increased my signal dramatically.
I mainly bought it because i read that it is the go to card for a linux OS.
Now what i do is boot my lappy up with a live copy of Operator for the time being to test the card.
Well as soon as i boot up kismet launches, and it is picking up 3 different wireless networks, mine and two others in the area.
Well after i run wavelan(?SP) enter the essid,key,managed mode i can see the activity light blink on the card kismet and airsnort pick up the networks, but i cannot ping or get anywhere on the internet or on my lan.
I run a iwconfig and sometimes the essid and key hold and sometimes they are blank.
I tried eth0 up command and that completes with no erros but doesnt help.
Any ideas on this? I have searched the forums and tried alot of things but just cannot seem to get it to work right.
At one point i think it picked up a IP from one of the wlans in my area but it would hang when trying to surf saying "resolving address" and then would fail.
My router is set with WEP and i only allow 10 ips leased but only one is taking right now. I have the encrytion key so i know that is right.
Could it be that the card is going into monitor mode and not coming out? ??
Im just, i want to be able to get it working with the live copy before i partion and install Mandrake.
Any help would be great.
Im not one to post before researching, so if there is a thread on this i may of missed i appologize
P.s - if you have any pro and cons on Suse or Mandrake let me hear them. Im leaning towards Suse 9.2 since i run Mandrake 10 on my other desktop.
I have checked and rechecked the key.
Let me tell you what i did to get the key.
I log onto windows, connect to my Linksys router.
Then i go to the WEP settings, I can see the paraphrase and the key it generates.
I copy the key to a .txt file on my HDD.
I then boot operator up, go through the wavelan configuration and or set key eth0 **key**
If that the correct way to do it?
Also i tried to run the DHCPCD command but it doesnt work, what is the syntax that i should be using?
Last night i was able to get a IP but it was from another wlan in my area, not mine.
Is kismet running when you are doing this. I dont know about whether your card is supported, but kismet puts your card into monitor mode (only listens, wont transmit) and it also mentions that sometimes cards dont come out of monitor mode cleanly, so restarting the card is necessary. Maybe try disabling wep untill you get it working, to see if that is the problem.
Is kismet running when you are doing this. I dont know about whether your card is supported, but kismet puts your card into monitor mode (only listens, wont transmit) and it also mentions that sometimes cards dont come out of monitor mode cleanly, so restarting the card is necessary. Make sure kismet is killed and then just to be sure, unload and then reload your cards modules and then fire it up. Maybe try disabling wep untill you get it working, to see if that is the problem. Or try with another live distro.
If your essid were shown right did you use dhcp to get the other settings? If you have dhcpcd run "dhcpcd interface" without the quotes, interface is what your interface is called can be things like eth0 or wlan0. After that check if you have a proper IP address with "ifconfig interface" if that's right and you can't acces the internet yet set your gateway with "route add default gw 0.0.0.0" where 0.0.0.0 is your router's IP address. If you can only use numeric addresses then enter a dns-server in your /etc/resolv.conf like this:
Quote:
nameserver 0.0.0.0
the address is that of your router again. Hope this helps.
Just unload your wireless card module- 'modprobe -r module'
then reload it. Then
iwconfig eth0 essid "your ap"
iwconfig eth0 channel 1,2,3 or whatever channel it is
ifup eth0 dhcp
All after making sure kismet isnt running.
Yep if its running from a terminal, then that should do it or ctrl c try the top command to see if still running. As to another live distro-anything that supports your card.
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