Generally, I found that trying to use both command line and GUI tools (at
the same time) is counter-productive. I would avoid the GUI tools
(especially when configuring WiFi). Case in point, the KDE tool Kwifimanager
(or something like that did nothing but get in the way when configuring my
Broadcom chipset. It did not support WPA (which I was trying to use) and
when I would update anything using Kwifi my whole connection would become
flaky of non-existent.
In answer to your question, what 'ifconfig' show? It should show all you
network connections, including wlan0.
FWIW, the sympton you describe is one I saw many times when the driver did
not work right.
What are you AP settings? Are you using WPA or WEP? I suggest you make this
as simple as possible to start. First, turn off any encryption. For safety,
set MAC address filtering on your AP to only accept YOUR MAC addresses. This
should afford some reasonable protection while you are getting it to work.
If you can pre-configure your SSID (in iwconfig, I think), you could also
turn off SSID broadcast on your AP.
Now, test the connection. If it works you can work on the encryption part of
setup. If not, look in the ndiswrapper wiki for another possible driver.
Let us know how it's going.
On 4/24/05, Mike Hoy <
mhoy4@cox.net> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> last time i stuck a pcmcia wifi card in my computer i was able to detect
> the access point but never got an ip address and obviously couldn't get
> on the network.
>
> then craig white and i found out that all we needed to do was add the
> network card (eth0) to the Network Applet in Applications -> System
> Settings.
>
> then it worked.
>
> so i've decided to try getting my on board wifi card working. thanks to
> that ndiswrapper thread. :-)
>
> i have to say it went well. i think it is working.
>
> i can iwlist wlan0 scan
>
> and i get the access point info but can't get on the network.
>
> so i thought why not add this wlan0 to the network applet. but it won't
> accept the wlan0 format. it has to be eth(#).
>
> any suggestions?
>
> mike hoy
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