I_Died_Once

I could sit here are type up one hell of a rant on this, but in short - wireless in general in linux is a huge disappiontment. I'm beginning to think that WLAN ability is just not meant to be.

Before I get into it, if anyone reading this is in or around Savannah, Ga - I'll gladly pay $10 and burn one with with anyone willing to head over and get this running...

The laptop - hp/compaq nx9010
the cards as described by lspci - 0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)

The Operating System - SuSE Professional Linux 9.1 & kernel: 2.6.5-7.111-default

From what I understand - I have THE two top pain in the ass wireless cards to have. I've been working on getting the broadcom for about two months now. It's an interior, built in, intergrated card. Linuxant DriverLoader got it working like a charm, damn their 30 day lisence.

Got the Realtek a few days ago as a gift. It's "really" a linksys wpc11 v4 802.11b card. This one plugs in the side of the computer.

Using ndiswrapper .11, in short, I can get an ip address, 192.168.1.105, but I cannot "resolve" an ip address from a website. All browser attemts and ping attempts tell me "unknown host" and "Unknown host www.kde.org"

I installed ndiswrapper, succesfully installed the inf file, modprobe'd. dmesg says

ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ndiswrapper: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
ndiswrapper version 0.11 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: using irq 10
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:51:59:98 using driver bcmwl5
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,06/13/2003, 3.20.23.0) added

set up via iwconfig the mode, essid, channel, then wrote the module with ndiswrapper -m

Got an ip 192.168.1.105 but I cannot resolve a web page. I can, however, ping my router (which is boadcasting in mixed mode, BTW) and other omputers on my local network.

Same situation on the wpc11 v4.

Both cards work like a charm under windows xp. Imagine that.

I'm thinking it's my DHCP settings... I have, through Yast, did the following: I added a wireless card to my network devices, and set the module name to "ndiswrapper". Currently, the computer boots, and "correctly" loads ndiswrapper and resolves it's ip address at boot time. (which is what I want). ifup wlan0 says it is configured with DHCP.

Thanks for the help. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Again, anyone near Savannah, Ga can make a quick $10 if they show me how to get it set. Email I_Died_Once@hotmail.com

Desperately seeking wireless internet on my laptop. Either card.

Much love

wrzwaldo

What happens if you ping 80.232.38.131?

Or goto http://80.232.38.131?


Sounds like you have a DNS issue. Are you pinging your router over wireless? If yes wouldn't you agree that the wireless is working properly? This has nothing to do with wireless and everything to do with good old Networking-101.

I_Died_Once

Destination: Host unreachable

sicc

I would try a couple things. First try editing your /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file. Comment out these 2 lines:

*,*,*,*)
;;

Then save, restart your pcmcia service [or reboot], and see if that works.

If it doesn't, try editing your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file. Under the correct interface for your wireless card, change USE_DHCP to ="yes". Save and restart pcmcia, or reboot.

Hopefully one of those works.

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-sicc