Damn Small Linux - Not!

Yushatak · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location: usa

Sup. I'm no linux expert but I've been messing with it for a few years on and off. Anyway: I like FBSD, but it has no support for my WiFi (broadcom) even with ndiswrapper. Linux in general has support now with the new kernel, though I suck with installing every version that has it built in (I'm looking into the new knoppix [downloading atm]). DSL-N works with ndiswrapper, but it won't do anything. When I modprobe it in and iwconfig, it shows up, already has my SSID and all. No link info and stuff, but i assumed that was cuz of ndiswrapper's nonperfect functionality. Anyway, "pump -i wlan0" does nothing but "Operation failed.", and I don't see an IP address anywhere in iwconfig. The "Access Point" field is also all 00's. I cannot ping my router (192.168.1.1), and have no idea how to fix this. If it can be fixed, I'll install DSL-N as my HDD-Linux for my laptop.

Edit: oh and it does say one other thing: "Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension, but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features may not be available."

Edit2: Before you ask, yes I did "ifconfig wlan0 up" and it makes no apparent change.

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

you should boot with the nodhcp option as that pending unanswered request can cause failures on subsquent requests on other devices such as you describe.

Yushatak · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location: usa

I am currently testing your suggestion, will edit with results.

Results: The iwconfig util no longer shows my proper ESSID, it says off/any, and pump -i wlan0 still says Operation Failed. I am unable to ping my router still. Ping gives "ping: sendto: Network is unreachable", the same as before (though I forgot to list this error).

Also, when I set my essid (iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID), it won't work (and no I didn't literally type in 'ESSID').

Edit: just realized that that last sentence was a bit incoherent. What I mean by that is the status of the essid field in iwconfig stays as "off/any".

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

Are you running these commands as user root ?