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Yushatak



Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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Location: usa

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:41 pm    Post subject: Wifi not working, card seen and driver working though... Reply with quote

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.
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roberts



Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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Yushatak



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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".
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roberts



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you running these commands as user root ?
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