still struggling with ndiswrapper

Josh Coffman josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 2 22:20:09 UTC 2005



--- James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:

> > Okay, now I'm running a kernel with 16k stacks. I
> also loaded
> > ndiswrapper 1.5. 
> > 
> > I can load everything like this:
> > 
> > ndiswrapper -i
> /install/ndiswrapper/broadcom/bcmwl5.inf
> > /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
> > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key my_key_goes_here
> > /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid my_ssid_goes_here
> > /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.25 netmask
> 255.255.255.0 up
> > 
> 
> One more thing. If I run iwconfig after running the
> above commands I get
> this:
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access
> Point:
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
>           RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise
> level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx
> invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  
> Missed beacon:0
> 
> It doesn't show the ESSID, says Encryption is off,
> and Access Point
> address of 00:00:00:00:00:00.
> 
> I assume these settings are part of my problem. Why
> didn't the settings
> "take"? Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 

since noone else has responded...

did you check "ndiswrapper -l" again? show that the
driver is loaded and all?

then did you try "dhclient wlan0"? then check iwconfig
to see if you got connected? or try "iwlist wlan0
scan" to find out whether it sees any networks?

is your access point broadcasting the essid? have MAC
filtering on?

..just covering the basics.

i've have some goofy results sometimes with iwconfig
and had to do this on a few occasions:

command "dhclient -r wlan0"
using network applet, Deactivate wlan0
using network applet, Activate wlan0




	
		
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