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rxmanjk

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Posted: 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

sci_fi
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Posted: 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

rxmanjk

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Posted: Nov. 26 2005,05:58

What your scrpit look like??

sci_fi

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Posted: 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 &

rxman
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Posted: 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?

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