wireless problems sis163u

Forum: Networking
Topic: wireless problems sis163u
started by: hughd

Posted by hughd on June 29 2006,09:48

Hi, the above wireless usb stick doesn't work correctly

it needs ndiswrapper to use drivers, if i do it manually it workes fine, except when i type

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sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid

nothing actually changes, ie if i go

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iwconfig wlan0

it will still say essid is any/all. it works however if i use another iwconfig command ie

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sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 6

, changes it so if i do a

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iwlist wlan0 channel

it now says channel 6 (instead of 0).

if i do it in the gui with iwconfig, it just takes ages and i gave up as it stopped responding. if i do it with wlcardconfig it goes through the steps but freezes when it gets to setting essid, and when i use ndiswrapper it goes through installing driver, then it gives error can't connect, and prism2 didn''t work either (same as iwconfig)

note im using an ascii wep (prefixing with s:), though i dont think that should matter.
The stick works on my ubuntu desktop and server though those are significantly faster :P, it also worked on the same machine through windows

Posted by hughd on June 29 2006,09:54

ive also tried the iwconfig.sh and prism2.sh scripts, no luck

Posted by cbagger01 on July 02 2006,15:15

According to ndiswrapper WIKI site, here is more information. Driver files obtained from the SIS web site:

Card: Trendnet TEW-424UB 802.11g Wireless USB Adapter

* Chipset: sis163u (Silicon Integrated Systems Corp)
* pciid: 0457:0163
* Driver: Latest driver for sis163 from < http://www.sis.com >
* Other: Works with WEP, WPA+TKIP and WPA+AES; tested with ndiswrapper version 1.13 and 1.4

Posted by hughd on July 03 2006,06:32

hi, ive tried that, and all the other mentions of the sis163u chipset. one thing i did notice is that when i do iwconfig it says that the drivers for wlan0 is compiled with version 16 of wireless extentions but recommends version 18. and according to < this > version 18 is compiled by default into kernel 2.6.13 but is trhere a way to patch it onto a 2.4 kernel? if so how?.
dsl-n is at 2.6.11 atm so just below .13 where v18 we's s. but if the laptop works with a 2.6.x kernel, should i try and compile and run it. just need to find a .config for 2.6.x kernels (probaly asking in wrong forum, i will try dsl-n pages as well) and the knoppix-patch (will the dsl ve4rsion work in a 2.6 kerel?)