How to conncet to router
Forum: Networking
Topic: How to conncet to router
started by: rxmanjk
Posted by rxmanjk on Nov. 24 2005,17:42
Trying to get my wireless working. Here's what I have got so far. Using ndiswrapper to load drivers. ifconfig -a does list wlan0 device, so I assume all is good there. /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper looks ok. Now I need to connect to my wireless router. It is setup as a dhcp configuration with no wep key. The ssid from router is "07740" . - So i use the iwconfig command -- iwconfig wlan0 essid 07740 rate auto.
- pump -i wlan0
-But I get an operation failed response after pump. I forgot which command I used maybe ,ifconfig -a, after pump and I can see tx packets have increased in number. So I assume my card is transmitting
As far as I can tell card never connects to router. I do not know how to see if card is recieving even my routers ssid. I am really stuck at this point and have exhuasted my linux knowledge and have spent many hours googling now. Any help would be appriacted, thanks --RXMAN
Posted by sci_fi on Nov. 26 2005,02:08
Hello:I have the same problem. My wlan0 configuration script which works perfectly on 1.5, fails on 2.0. I have been unable to connect to my router using 2.0. Since I changed nothing, it appears that something got broken in 2.0.
Best Regards,
sci_fi
Posted by rxmanjk on Nov. 26 2005,05:58
What your scrpit look like?? 
Posted by sci_fi on Nov. 26 2005,12:55
This is my wlan0 setup script that works on 1.5. It is executed from a command in .xinitrc at boot.cd /home/dsl/.GREG/wlan0/mn-720
sudo ndiswrapper -i mn720-ankh.inf
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
#Wait for modprobe completion
sleep 2s
#sudo ndiswrapper -m
#echo "Set WEP key"
sudo iwconfig wlan0 key restricted "mywepkey"
#echo "WEP key set"
#echo "Set essid"
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any
#echo "essid is set"
#echo "Do ifconfig"
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
#echo "ifconfig done"
#echo "Now pump"
sudo pump -i wlan0 &
Posted by rxman on Nov. 28 2005,00:44
OK modifiying your script as needed gave me a working connection. As a matter of fact I am using it right now.... cool. However some weird stuff. I need to physical turn off card to do ndiswrapper and /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper. Then I physically turn on card and run rest of commands. Any idea how to write that into a script?? I mean just prompts and directions to turn off/on card and the needed pauses for me to do such? Do not care at this point about catching it at boot. Just a script I can tuck away. Thanks again for assistance this far. Rxman---- Turn off card ----
ndiswrapper /mnt/hda2/bcmwl5.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
---- Turn on Card ----
iwconfig wlan0 essid any
ifconfig wlan0 up
pump -i wlan0 &
#end of script
ps what does the '&' stand for in pump?
Posted by sci_fi on Nov. 29 2005,01:32
Glad the script helped. Very satisfying when wireless starts working.Odd about having to turn the card on and off. I have never had that problem. In my experience the card is "off" until the modprobe ndiswrapper command executes. Then lights up.
I vaguely remember hearing of something like that when using ndiswrapper with the Microsoft supplied driver for the MN-720 pcmcia wireless card. I got around that by using a home-grown driver I discovered on the ndiswrapper site. But, whatever works...
I am not very knowledgable out programming in shell script. I believe there is some sort of input command that causes a pause until the user enters a keystroke. Probably there is a script primer online somewhere. Not much help here. Sorry.
The "&" is to allow the shell prompt to return before the command has completed execution. "Pump" in particular can take a while.
I am certain there is a bug in dsl 2.0 wrt to wireless. Other postings are indicating similar problems. Probably be fixed by the dsl team before long.
Cheers,
sci_fi