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Posted: Jan. 10 2009,18:34 QUOTE

I'm trying to set up a wireless internet connection, and I'm having some some weird results. I've already set up ndiswrapper with the appropriate drivers, and I'm using wpa_supplicant for wpa authentication. If I start everything up after a fresh reboot, it works fine (meaning I have connection, and can browse the web). But after a while, pages won't load, and the browser gives me a connection timeout error. If I restart wpa_supplicant and pump, I get the error from pump, "operation failed" and nothing I can think of to do will fix it except rebooting.

Regardless of whether it works, I get this error while wpa_supplicant is running: "ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN{,EXT}]: Operation not supported"
Also, iwconfig gives me this message: "Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension, but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features may not be available..."
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Posted: Feb. 24 2009,19:33 QUOTE

No ideas? Anybody?
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Posted: Mar. 14 2009,05:32 QUOTE

Seriously, no one has any suggestions? Do I need to give more information? If there's something I'm doing wrong, tell me so I can fix it. I'm practically ripping out my hair over this. I just need some clue of what's going on.
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Posted: Mar. 14 2009,11:44 QUOTE

Unusual wifi issues under linux can be extremely tricky even for experts, which most us here definitely aren't.  With ndiswrapper - even tricker.

What is your wifi card? Isn't there a native alternative to ndiswrapper?
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Posted: Mar. 14 2009,15:54 QUOTE

The card is a Linksys WMP11v4 PCI. I don't really know anything about native drivers. It didn't automatically configure, so I assumed it wouldn't work that way. Besides, from my point of view, ndiswrapper makes more sense---probably because leftover bits of the windows paradigm clogging up my mind. :p But if you could explain to me how to make sure if there's a native driver, then I'm certainly willing to try.
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