I've been trying to get this working for a few days to no avail.
I've searched for answers but so far nothing has worked
I'm running debian etch 2.6.12-1-386
I'm using a Linksys WMP11v4 802.11b PCI card
ndiswrapper -l says that both the driver and hardware are present

ifconfig wlan0 displays

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:10:28:B3:3C
inet6 addr: fe80::213:10ff:fe28:b33c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:864 (864.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:177 Memory:e8000000-e8000800


iwconfig wlan0 displays

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:50:8B:99:03:A0
ESSID:"COMPAQ"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-56 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=80
Extra:atim=0
dhcpcd -d -t 10 wlan0 gives me

dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:13:10:28:b3:3c
dhcpcd: your IP address = 192.168.1.105

Any suggestions?

Quick google suggests that that is one tough card to get working.

Are you able to ping the router or anything ... or is it just dead?

Nope, I am unable to ping the router.
I don't know if this has to do with anything but I got it working just fine under knoppix, so I figured it coudn't be that much difficult :/

You know what is weird is that your dhcpcd command gives you and IP address, but it isn't showing up in the ifconfig entry. Did you get the ifconfig entry before you ran dhcpcd?

My mistake,

ifconfig wlan0

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:10:28:B3:3C
inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:10ff:fe28:b33c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3129 (3.0 KiB) TX bytes:1028 (1.0 KiB)
Interrupt:177 Memory:e8000000-e8000800


I found out that the problem was the ethernet card was interfereing, unplugging it wasn't enough but after i disabled it, the wireless picked up just fine.

Thanks for the help.

What is the console cmd to disable eth0 but leave ath0 active?

First post... Be gentile

I beleive ifconfig eth0 down should do the trick.

Oh, and Welcome to LQ!

That did it...

I am assuming when I need to use eth0 I will disable ath0 ?

Also, is there a way to disable eth0 at boot?

Yeah, its a good idea.


Since you're running Slackware, you can edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file and remove the info for eth0. That should prevent eth0 from being enabled at boot. If you need it later you can always bring it up by hand using ifconfig.