Wireless network not being sensed by Asus 138g network card
 

Hi,

I've installed the Asus 138g v2 network card ontu Kubuntu 7.10 using the howto on this site (thanks for that!) and that's correctly showing up in the network configuration screen along with an inbuilt LAN connection. 3 things:

a) The LAN card won't let itself be disabled, as in every time i do it, and return to the manual config settings in the GUI it just enables itself again. Not sure if this has anything to do with the problem, but it's wierd.

b) The wireless card is showing up on ifconfig screens, showing up in the gui manual config screen, but not showing up when i right click on the icon in the taskbar. Furthermore, when I go into "show connections" nothing comes up, signifying to me somehow the wireless device isn't being read properly? But I'm a total newb and that might be normal.

c) The computer is totally failing to sense the wireless network we've set up at home, that's running running off a Belkin f5d7230-4 router. Obviously, this is my main problem! When i set it to auto config of the wireless network it comes up with a wierd ip that has nothing to do with any of the ip's on my network, and when i do it manually nothing happens.

Oh, I can ping the "WAN IP", not sure if that's relevant at all.

Oh, the light on the stupid network card isn't lighting up.

Cheers!

I've read around the forums, tried iwconfig, and the wireless adapter comes up. I've checked the driver, and it says bcmw5l.inf is installed and Bcm43xx is the backup. I've blacklisted the backup as far as I can tell.

I tried sudo dhclient, and it sends to and tries to detect something @ 255.255.255.255, is that meant to be the subnet mask? Because it's finding nothing, and my actual subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and I have no idea how to change it in the command line.

To repeat what I said earlier, the light on the back of the modem is not turning on, ever.

ARGH!

I'm a bit disappointed that no one is able to help Anyway, I've totally exhausted the help on all these sites, and I still can't get the light to come on!!!

Also I have been consistently unable to change the subnet mask.

I've used "sudo ifconfig eth2 192.2.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" but it still checks 255.255.255.255 when i run "sudo eth2 dhclient"...

HELP please