RE: ndiswrapper and wireless on Inspiron 5160 : installation and some questions
Hello, I just installed a linksys on a desktop, I had got the same ipv6
problem... I'm not sure it is gonna work in your case, for I installed in
Fedora (it was not my machine). So, I'll tell you what I did in Fedora and you
put it in Debian (to make the translation, check
http://www.gnoppix.org/pages/rute/node28.html)
I did not have to define an essid, it gets all automaticaly, BUT I had to
create a ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. (neither of these
exist in debian, but the page above will tell you where to put the info).
This file had:
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
TYPE=Wireless
ONBOOT=yes
I had already got everything from my access point. Then,
ifconfig wlan0 up
and
dhclient wlan0
this is where the file above comes to the scene. With that file, dhclient gets
you an ipv4 address, otherwise you'll get that no ipv6 routers present error
message.
hope I helped somehow... sorry, but I got no experience with wireless in
debian.
>Okay, that is all fine, or so it seems to me. Then I listed the
>interfaces with iwconfig and it includes:
>wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
>00:00:00:00:00:00
> Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
> RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:15 Missed beacon:0
>
>
>
>So looks like the wireless card is being seen. I don't have a wireless
>network here where I am trying to get the wireles card working, but I
>sometimes see this:
>#> iwlist wlan0 scan
>wlan0 Scan completed :
> Cell 01 - Address: 00:02:6F:08:51:22
> ESSID:"TadaaWireless"
> Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
> Mode:Managed
> Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
> Quality:0/100 Signal level:-86 dBm Noise
>level:-256 dBm
> Encryption key:off
> Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
> Extra:bcn_int=100
> Extra:atim=0
>
>
>And dmesg says:
>ndiswrapper version 0.11 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
>ndiswrapper: using irq 18
>wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0b:7d:08:25:9d using driver bcmwl5a
>wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, AES/CCMP
>ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,06/25/2004, 3.40.73.0) added
>ndiswrapper (iw_set_encr:685): key 1 is not set
>wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>
>But I am not sure how to get the ESSID info into the card. I have tried
>this in /etc/network/interfaces:
>iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> name Wireless LAN card
> wireless_essid Sunny
> wireless_channel 6
> wireless_key 0a1b2c3d4e
>
>But iwconfig still does not show the ESSID of "Sunny"? What am I missing
>here?
>
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